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every creature will do better
in the presence of its offspring?” “That is so, but the
risk, Socrates, is not slight, in the event of disasters such as may happen
in war, that, losing their children as well as themselves, they make it
impossible for the remnant of the state to recover.”
“What you say is true,” I replied; “but, in
the first place, is it your idea that the one thing for which we must
provide is the avoidance of all danger?” “By no
means.” “And, if they are to take chances, should it not
be for something success in which will make them better?”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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