There is no Greek can contradict or mend
What you have said, yet to no perfect end
Is your speech brought,[46]
might pertinently be made use of and applied, it is against those
exhorting, but nothing teaching nor any way instructing, philosophers.
For they do (in this respect) resemble those who are indeed careful in
snuffing the lamps, but negligent in supplying them with oil. Seeing
therefore that you, being by reason moved to engage yourself in the
affairs of the state, desire, as becomes the nobility of your family,