It is far more honorable to compel men to emulate your scrupulousness than that you allow yourselves to be persuaded to share in the lawlessness. Isocrates. Plataicus. Speech 14. Section 22.
Socrates teaching Alcibiades by Marcello Bacciarelli, 1776-77 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Peter1c. I thought it is interesting that Socrates is portrayed holding a horse's bit, a tool of control, while Alcibiades grips a spear.
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