You have heard parts of two discourses; I want now to run through a few topics from a third, in order that it may become even more evident to you that all my writings tend toward virtue and justice. The one which is about to be produced before you is addressed to Nicocles of Cyprus, who at that time was king, and is made up of advice to him as to how to rule over his people. It is not, however, composed in the same style as the extracts which have been read.
For in them each part is always in accord and in logical connection with that which goes
before; but in this, on the contrary, I detach one part from another, and breaking up the
discourse, as it were, into what we call general heads, I strive to express in a few words
each bit of counsel which I have to offer.