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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: journey where you will to see the games or other spectacles; or it
shall be open to you to bide at home, and still attain your object.
Before you shall be gathered daily an assembly, a great company of
people willing to display whatever each may happen to possess of
wisdom, worth, or beauty;[10] and another throng of persons eager to
do you service. Present, regard them each and all as sworn allies; or
absent, know that each and all have one desire, to set eyes on you.
[10] Or, "to display their wares of wisdom, beauty, excellence."
The end will be, you shall not be loved alone, but passionately
adored, by human beings. You will not need to woo the fair but to
endure the enforcement of their loving suit.
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