The mistakes of private persons he judged leniently, because few interests
 suffer by their incompetence; but the errors of rulers he treated as
 serious, since they lead to many troubles.
 Kingship, he held, demands not indolence, but
 manly virtue. He would not allow a statue of himself to be
 set up, though many wanted to give him one, but on memorials of his mind
 he laboured unceasingly, thinking the one to be the sculptor’s work, the
 other his own, the one appropriate to the rich, the other to the good.