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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: Past." vol. i. p. xxv.
[6] See Herod. i. 34; Soph. "Oed. Tyr." 1529; and Prof. Jebb's note ad
loc.
In his judgment it was a greater misfortune to neglect things good and
virtuous, knowing them to be so, than in ignorance. Nor was he
enamoured of any reputation, the essentials of which he had not
laboriously achieved.[7]
[7] Or, "for which he did not qualify himself by the appropriate
labour."
He was one of the small band, as it seemed to me, who regard virtue,
not as a thing to be patiently endured,[8] but as a supreme enjoyment.
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