Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.


Politics and Poetics (ed. 1957)


Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but ...

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but ...

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but ...

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but ...