“Cf. Plato, “Cratylus,” p. 257, E. ὦ παῖ Ὶππονίκου Ὲρμόγενες, παλαιὰ παροιμἰα, ὃτι χαλεπὰ Ï„á½° καλἀ ἐσιν ὃπη ἔχει μαθεῖν. So Horace, “Sat.” i. ix. 59, 60, “Nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus”

Euripides—

“Euripides, “Unskilled am I in the oratory that pleases the mob; but amongst the few that are my equals I am reckoned rather wise. For those who are little thought of by the wise, seem to hit the taste of the vulgar”

” What pleases the vulgar, displeases the wise”

Our sons!

Have you lost anything? “Certainly not, for war cannot make any havoc on virtue”

Vice and virtue

“the precept of Diogenes, whose advice sounds rather low, but is really of excellent moral intent,15 “Go into a brothel, my lad, that you may see the little difference between vice and virtue”

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Suckle your own children

Two breasts — twins.

Good slaves are turned into money lenders

Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles? 

“Men, what can you be thinking of, who move heaven and earth to make money, while you bestow next to no attention on the sons you are going to leave that money to”. – Socrates

Feet

“I would add to this that such fathers act very similarly to a person who should be very careful about his shoe but care nothing about his foot”

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Don’t be niggardly

“Many persons also are so niggardly about their children, and indifferent to their interests, that for the sake of a paltry saving, they prefer worthless teachers for their children, practising a vile economy at the expense of their children’s ignorance.”

Two slaves

“Apropos of this, Aristippus on one occasion rebuked an empty-headed parent neatly and wittily. For being asked how much money a parent ought to pay for his son’s education, he answered, “A thousand drachmæ.” And he replying, “Hercules, what a price! I could buy a slave for as much;” Aristippus answered, “You shall have two slaves then, your son and the slave you buy”

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