and so kept the city free for ever, so do you not surround yourself with a great court nor build lofty towers, but confirm the dwellers in your house with goodwill and faith and friendliness, and no harmful thing shall enter it, no, not if the whole army of evil were arrayed against it.
IV.Not with tablets and pictures let your house be hung about, but adorn it with soberness. For those are alien to us, and a passing enchantment of the eyes; but that is akin to the soul and indelible, and an eternal ornament of the house.
V.Let not the structure of your city walls be variegated by the stones of Sparta and Eubœa, but let the philosophic teaching[1] that comes from Greece penetrate with order the minds of citizens and ministers. For by the thoughts of men are cities well established, and not with wood and stone.
VI.Philosophic training, like gold, passes current in every place.
- ↑ παιδεία. See note on p. 8.
