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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: deliberately choose aught else in their stead, nor will he who lacks
the special knowledge of them be able to do them, but even if he makes
the attempt he will miss the mark and fail. So the wise alone can
perform the things which are "beautiful and good"; they that are
unwise cannot, but even if they try they fail. Therefore, since all
things just, and generally all things "beautiful and good," are
wrought with virtue, it is clear that justice and all other virtue is
wisdom.
On the other hand, madness (he maintained) was the opposite to wisdom;
not that he regarded simple ignorance as madness,[7] but he put it
thus: for a man to be ignorant of himself, to imagine and suppose that
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