Young men

And, most important of all, the younger men inquire of you after what example they ought to shape their lives.

For be assured, fellow citizens, it is not our wrestling halls or the schools or our system of liberal studies alone that educate the young, but far more our public proclamations.

And he censures my frequenting of the gymnasia with the younger men.

A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.

You will not teach the young men to have contempt for the mass of our citizens, nor consider that trials of this character are of no concern to you;

But let no one suppose that I am out of temper with the younger generation:

for it delivered the poor from want by providing them with work and with assistance from the wealthy, the young from excesses by engaging them in occupations and by watching over them, the men in public life from the temptations of greed by imposing punishments and by letting no wrong-doer escape detection, and the older men from despondency by securing to them public honors and the devotion of the young.

Accordingly, they believed that by removing the root of evil they would deliver the young from the sins which spring from it.

Exhort the young to virtue not only by your precepts but by exemplifying in your conduct what good men ought to be.

Thus he disregarded their repeated injunction not to talk with young men;

The most highly gifted, the youths of ardent soul, capable of doing whatever they attempt, if educated and taught their duty grow into excellent and useful men;