Don't you know that a good person does nothing just to look good? They do things because they're right. What advantage does doing right give them? The advantage is that they did right. What advantage does someone get from writing Dion's name correctly? The advantage is that they wrote it correctly. Isn't there any reward then? Do you want a reward for a good person that's greater than doing what is good and just? At the Olympic games, you don't want anything more than winning. It seems like enough to be crowned champion. Does being good and happy seem so small and worthless to you? The gods brought you into this world for these purposes. It's now your duty to do the work of an adult. Do you still want nurses and a mommy? Do foolish women make you soft and weak with their crying? Will you never stop being a foolish child? Don't you know that when someone acts like a child, the older they get, the more ridiculous they become?
Know you not that a good man does nothing for the sake of appearance, but for the sake of doing right? What advantage is it then to him to have done right? And what advantage is it to a man who writes the name of Dion to write it as he ought? The advantage is to have written it. Is there no reward then? Do you seek a reward for a good man greater than doing what is good and just? At Olympia you wish for nothing more, but it seems to you enough to be crowned at the games. Does it seem to you so small and worthless a thing to be good and happy? For these purposes being introduced by the gods into this city (the world), and it being now your duty to undertake the work of a man, do you still want nurses also and a mamma, and do foolish women by their weeping move you and make you effeminate? Will you thus never cease to be a foolish child? know you not that he who does the acts of a child, the older he is, the more ridiculous he is?