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Therefore, no athlete is so called upon to train his body as is a king to train his soul;1 for not all the public festivals in the world offer a prize comparable to those for which you who are kings strive every day of your lives.This thought you must lay to heart, and see to it that in proportion as you are above the others in rank so shall you surpass them in virtue;
1 Cf. Isoc. 1.12.
Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.
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