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Socrates added, "What of that other one, the man who calls out in the market, or that tent-maker?" As the son of Clinias agreed, Socrates said, "Is the assembly of the Athenians gathered from such people? And if you despise them individually, then you must also despise them when they are gathered together." Thus the son of Sophroniscus and Phaenarete spoke with high-mindedness, teaching the son of Clinias and Dinomache.

VI. (Book 2, 3.)

Alexander, having looked at the painting of himself in Ephesus, which was created by Apelles, did not praise it according to the merit of the work. But when a horse was brought in and neighed at the horse in the painting, as if it were real, Apelles said to him, "O King, it seems your horse is much more of an expert in painting than you are."

VII. (Book 2, 5.)

The Lacedaemonians Spartans practiced a terrible frugality regarding time, rationing it everywhere for urgent tasks and permitting no citizen to be idle or slothful with it, so that it might not be wasted on things outside of virtue and thus perish in vain. A testimony to this, among others, is this: when the Ephors Spartan overseers/magistrates of the Lacedaemonians heard that [the youth] were...