his reign, since by the light of

One's self. Wealth might procure the one, he said, but only a good man
could produce the other. (4) See Plut. "Ages." ii. (Clough, iv. p. 2);
also Plut. "Ap. Lac." p. 115; ib. p. 103; Cic. "ad Div." V. xii. 7. As
for riches, he employed them not with justice merely, but with
liberality, holding that for a just man it is sufficient if he let alone
the things of others, but of a liberal man it is required that he should
take of his own and give to supply another's needs. He was ever subject
to religious fear, (5) believing that no man during his lifetime,
however well he lives, can be counted happy; it is only he who has ended
his days with glory of whom it can be said that he has attained at last
to blessedness. (6) (5) See "Cyr." III. iii. 58, and for the word
{deisidaimon}, see Jebb, "Theophr. Char." p. 263 foll.; Mr. Ruskin,
Preface to "Bibl. Past." vol. i. p. xxv. (6) See Herod. i. 34; Soph.
"Oed. Tyr." 1529; and Prof. Jebb's note ad loc. In his judgment it was a
greater misfortune to neglect things good and virtuous, knowing them to
be so, than in ignorance. Nor was he enamoured of any reputation, the
essentials of which he had not laboriously achieved. (7) (7) Or, "for
which he did not qualify himself by the appropriate labour." He was one
of the small band, as it seemed to me, who regard virtue, not as a thing
to be patiently endured, (8) but as a supreme enjoyment. At any rate, to
win the praise of mankind gave him a deeper pleasure than the
acquisition of wealth; and he preferred to display courage far rather in
c