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If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

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Show at all times so strong a regard for truth that your bare word shall carry more weight than the oaths of others.

II. To Nicocles (-374)

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

I. To Demonicus (-370)

Rather let it be your object to bequeath to your children a stainless name than a large fortune.

II. To Nicocles (-374)

It is the function of the ruler to use his best endeavours to make his subjects happier.

VIII. On the Peace (-355)

Be not content only to praise the virtuous, but imitate them too.

III. Nicocles or the Cyprians (-365)

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