Honour he has equally with them; they are 'judged of him,' but he is 'not judged of them,' for they never attain to the knowledge of true being.

And his instrument is reason, whereas their standard is only wealth and honour; and if by reason we are to judge, his good will be the truest.

And so we arrive at the result that the pleasure of the rational part of the soul, and a life passed in such pleasure is the pleasantest.

He who has a right to judge judges thus.

Next comes the life of ambition, and, in the third place, that of money-making.
Twice has the just man overthrown the unjust--once more, as in an Olympian contest, first offering up a prayer to the saviour Zeus, let him try a fall.