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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: I answered: So far I follow you, Ischomachus. You tell me that by
labouring to his full strength,[11] by expending care, by practice and
training, a man may hope more fully to secure life's blessings. So I
take your meaning. But now I fain would learn of you some details.
What particular toil do you impose on yourself in order to secure good
health and strength? After what particular manner do you practise the
arts of war? How do you take pains to create a surplus which will
enable you to benefit your friends and to gratify the state?
[11] Or, "by working off ill-humours," as we should say.
Why then (Ischomachus replied), my habit is to rise from bed betimes,
when I may still expect to find at home this, that, or the other
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