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Now it has
been my part to tell you1 what studies I think it is to
your advantage to have pursued, but it is yours to decide concerning them. There
is an obligation also on the rest, those who seek to be on intimate terms with
you, not to be content with superficial pleasures and pastimes, nor to summon
you to these, but to consider diligently how they may render your career most
brilliant. By so doing they would bring most credit to themselves and become
instruments of the greatest service to you.
1 Blass notes a similarity in Isoc. 9.80; seemingly a commonplace of the protreptic genre.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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