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“Don't you think, Simonides, that the greater a man's pleasure in any occupation the stronger is his devotion to it?”“Certainly.”“Then do you notice that despots fall to their meal with any more zest than private persons to theirs?”“No, no, of course not; I should rather say with more disgust, according to the common opinion.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1925.
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