Knowing one’s own good, then, would seem to be a kind of knowledge (though it admits of great variety), 150 and, according to the general opinion, he who knows and attends to his own affairs is prudent, while statesmen are busybodies, as Euripides says⁠—

“What? was I wise, who might without a care

Have lived a unit in the multitude

Like any other unit?⁠ ⁠…

For those who would excel and do great things⁠—”