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Of course.Athenian
These are the two fears I was meaning; and of these the second is opposed to pains and to all other objects of fear, and opposed also to the greatest and most numerous pleasures.1Clinias
Very true.Athenian
Does not, then, the lawgiver, and every man who is worth anything, hold this kind of fear in the highest honor, and name it “modesty”; and to the confidence which is opposed to it does he not give the name “immodesty,” and pronounce it to be for all,
1 i.e. shame, which is fear of disgrace, induces fortitude under pain and the power of resisting vicious pleasures.
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