The Economist

In these chapters (vii.-xxi.) Socrates is represented by the author as repeating for the benefit of Critobulus and the rest certain conversations which he had once held with the beautiful and good Ischomachus on the essentials of economy.

a great man in every deed he is who can achieve great ends by resolution rather than brute force.

Happy must that leader be whose followers are thus attached to him: beyond all others he will prove a stout and strong commander.