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those who respect their parents and the gods.

XXI. (Book 3, 25.)

Leonidas with three hundred Spartans, choosing death for the fatherland.

Leonidas the Lacedaemonian, and the three hundred with him, chose the death prophesied to them at Thermopylae. Having fought well and nobly for Greece, they met a glorious end, leaving behind for themselves immortal fame and a good reputation for all time.

XXII. (Book 3, 28.)

Alcibiades, puffed up by wealth, is recalled to a sounder mind by Socrates.

Socrates, seeing Alcibiades puffed up by his wealth and proud of his lands, led him to a place where a map of the earth was displayed, and ordered him to find Attica there. When he found it, he ordered him to examine his own properties. When he said, "But they are not written there at all," Socrates said, "Are you then proud of these things, which are not even a part of the earth?"

XXIII. (Book 4, 9.)

The conversation of Plato, from which all affectation is absent.

Plato, son of Ariston, shared a tent at Olympia with men who were strangers to him, and he himself was unknown to them. He won them over and bound them with his kindness...