Texte grec :
| [12,11] εὐδαιμονέστεροι ἔσεσθε αὐτῆς τῆς εὐδαιμονίας. εἰ δ´ αὐτοὶ μὴ βούλεσθε,
καταμεμφόμενοι τὴν αὑτῶν φύσιν ἢ πενίαν ἢ γῆρας ἢ ἀσθένειαν,
ἀλλὰ τοῖς γε υἱέσι μὴ φθονοῦντες μηδὲ ἀφαιρούμενοι τῶν μεγίστων ἀγαθῶν,
ἑκοῦσί τε ἐπιτρέποντες καὶ ἄκοντας πείθοντες ἢ
βιαζόμενοι πάντα τρόπον, ὡς ἂν παιδευθέντες ἱκανῶς καὶ γενόμενοι
σοφοὶ παρὰ πᾶσιν Ἕλλησι καὶ βαρβάροις ὀνομαστοὶ ὦσι τὸ λοιπόν,
διαφέροντες ἀρετῇ καὶ δόξῃ καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ δυνάμει τῇ πάσῃ
σχεδόν. οὐ γὰρ μόνον πλούτῳ φασὶν ἀρετὴν καὶ κῦδος ὀπηδεῖν,
ἀλλὰ καὶ πλοῦτος ἀρετῇ συνέπεται ἐξ ἀνάγκης.
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Traduction française :
| [12,11] you will become happier than
happiness itself. But if you are not willing to do
this yourselves, mistrusting your own natural ability,
or pleading poverty or age or lack of physical strength,
you will at least not begrudge your sons this boon
nor deprive them of the greatest blessings, but will
entrust them to these teachers if they are willing to
receive them ; and if they are unwilling, you will
persuade them or compel them by any and all means,
to the end that your sons, having been properly
educated and having grown wise, may thenceforth
be renowned among all Greeks and barbarians,
being pre-eminent in virtue and reputation and wealth
and in almost every kind of power. For not only do
virtue and renown attend upon wealth, as we are
told, but wealth likewise and of necessity accompanies virtue.
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