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and their
pursuits so that the people may not suppose you to mean those of whom they
are thinking. Or even if they do look at them in that way, are you still
going to deny that they will change their opinion and answer differently? Or
do you think that anyone is ungentle to the gentle or grudging to the
ungrudging if he himself is ungrudging1 and mild? I
will anticipate you and reply that I think that only in some few and not in
the mass of mankind is so ungentle or harsh a temper to be found.”
“And I, you may be assured,”
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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