Josiah Renick Smith, Xenophon: Memorabilia book 2, chapter 1, section 9 : with these words Aristippus indicates the position and function of a statesman who, at the demand of the state, must lay on himself and others heavy burdens: and, in rejecting this for himself, Aristippus indirectly gives utterance to the view afterward developed by his pupil Epicurus. (25.52)