アリスタルコスに ソクラテスが貧困の 乗り越え方を示す 後編

When you set them to work you will begin to love them, because they will bring you some profit; and when they find that you regard them with more complacency they will not fail to have more love for you. The remembrance of your kindnesses will be more grateful to them, and the obligations they have to you will be the greater. In a word, you will be kinder relations and better friends. Indeed, if what they were to do was a thing worthy of blame, it would be better to die than to think of it; but what they can do is honorable, and becoming of their gender, and whoever knows how to do a thing well will acquit himself of it with honor and pleasure.