Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men." (Diogenes Laërtius)

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men."

Diogenes Laërtius

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