... character, the good or ill desert ofactions, and of the connection of causes and consequences, both in respect to the influence of wisdom andvirtue on the one hand, and, on the other, of folly ... Cambyses's court. The sons of all the nobles and officers of the court were educated together, within the precincts of the royal palaces, or, rather, they spent their timetogether there, occupied ... children, the pleasures which, forourselves alone, had long since, through repetition and satiety, lost their charm. The rides, the walks, the flowers gathered by the road-side, the rambles among...