Come now, show me what progress you’re making in this regard. Suppose I were talking with an athlete and said, Show me your shoulders, and he were to reply, ‘Look at my jumping-weights.’* That’s quite enough of you and your weights! What I want to see is what you’ve achieved by use of those jumping-weights. [14] ‘Take the treatise On Motivation and see how thoroughly I’ve read it.’ That’s not what I’m seeking to know, slave, but how you’re exercising your motives to act and not to act, and how you’re managing your desires and aversions, and how you’re approaching all of this, and how you’re
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