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In social intercourse what pleasure could you find in such a man, knowing that he prefers your sauces and your wines to your friends, and likes the women1 better than the company? Should not every man hold self-control to be the foundation of all virtue, and first lay this foundation firmly in his soul?
1 Employed to entertain the guests at the banquet.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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