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for it
will be clear gain for us if it can be shown that she bestows not only
pleasure but benefit.” “How could we help being the
gainers?” said he. “But if not, my friend, even as men
who have fallen in love, if they think that the love is not good for them,
hard though it be,1
nevertheless refrain, so we, owing to the love of this kind of poetry inbred
in us by our education in these fine2
polities of ours,
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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