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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: fortune and conduct to be diametrically opposed. For instance, to
succeed in some desirable course of action without seeking to do so, I
hold to be good fortune; but to do a thing well by dint of learning
and practice, that according to my creed is successful conduct,[17]
and those who make this the serious business of their life seem to me
to do well."
[15] Or, "the noblest study."
[16] {eupraxia, eu prattein}--to do well, in the sense both of well or
right doing, and of welfare, and is accordingly opposed to
{eutukhia}, mere good luck or success. Cf. Plat. "Euthyd." 281 B.
[17] Lit. "well-doing"; and for the Socratic view see Newman, op. cit.
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