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Vie de Alcibiade
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.99
ISBN13: 9783988813534
Publisher: Prodinnova
Published: Sep 16 2023
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: French
... Déjà une foule de citoyens distingués s'empressaient autour d'Alcibiade, et recherchaient son amitié; mais on s'apercevait facilement que le motif de ces assiduités, c'était leur admiration pour les charmes de sa personne. Au contraire, l'amour que lui portait Socrate ne fut qu'un hommage rendu à la vertu du jeune homme, et à son heureux naturel. Socrate en voyait briller les traits à travers la beauté de son corps; et, redoutant les périls que lui faisaient courir ses richesses, sa naissance, et cette foule de citoyens, d'étrangers et d'alliés, qui cherchaient à se l'attacher par leurs flatteries et leurs complaisances, il se crut appelé à le sauver de sa perte, et à empêcher, par ses soins, que cette plante ne se perdit dans sa fleur et ne gâtât le fruit qu'elle faisait espérer. En effet, jamais homme ne reçut, de la Fortune, aussi complète enveloppe extérieure, aussi fort rempart de biens, comme on les appelle, pour devenir impénétrable aux coups de la philosophie et inaccessible aux aiguillons piquants des libres remontrances...
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