Xenophon's Anabasis 2.6.26
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ὥσπερ δέ τις ἀγάλλεται ἐπὶ θεοσεβείᾳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ καὶ δικαιότητι , οὕτω Μένων ἠγάλλετο τῷ ἐξαπατᾶν δύνασθαι , τῷ πλάσασθαι ψεύδη , τῷ φίλους διαγελᾶν : τὸν δὲ μὴ πανοῦργον τῶν ἀπαιδεύτων ἀεὶ ἐνόμιζεν εἶναι . καὶ παρ᾽ οἷς μὲν ἐπεχείρει πρωτεύειν φιλίᾳ , διαβάλλων τοὺς πρώτους τοῦτο ᾤετο δεῖν κτήσασθαι .
And
just
as
a
man
prides
himself
upon
piety
,
truthfulness
,
and
justice
,
so
Menon
prided
himself
upon
ability
to
deceive
,
the
fabrication
of
lies
,
and
the
mocking
of
friends
;
but
the
man
who
was
not
a
rascal
he
always
thought
of
as
belonging
to
the
uneducated
.
Again
,
if
he
were
attempting
to
be
first
in
the
friendship
of
anybody
,
he
thought
that
slandering
those
who
were
already
first
was
the
proper
way
of
gaining
this
end
.