[604a]
“Tell me now this about him: Do you
think he will be more likely to resist and fight against his grief when he
is observed by his equals or when he is in solitude alone by
himself?” “He will be much more restrained,”
he said, “when he is on view.” “But when left
alone, I fancy, he will permit himself many utterances which, if heard by
another, would put him to shame, and will do many things which he would not
consent to have another see him doing.” “So it
is,” he said.“Now is it
not reason and law
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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