Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Menexenus, 247e

nan and of a like bravery themselves; whereas if they give way they will afford grounds for suspecting either that they are no fathers of ours or that we have been falsely belauded. But neither of these should they allow; rather should they belaud us most by their actions, showing themselves plainly to be in very truth the manly fathers of us men. That ancient saying, Nothing overmuch is judged to be a noble saying; and in truth it is well said. Soc. For that man is best prepared for life who makes all that concerns his welfare depend upon himself, or nearly so

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academics,the academy	Long (2006) 291
caesar,julius	Long (2006) 291
cicero,as translator	Long (2006) 291
cicero,on philosophy	Long (2006) 291
cicero,on plato and aristotle	Long (2006) 291
cicero,on socrates	Long (2006) 291
cicero	Long (2006) 291
peripatetics	Long (2006) 291
plato,cicero on	Long (2006) 291
socrates'	Long (2006) 291