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both for life
and death. And a man must take with him to the house of death an
adamantine1 faith in this, that even
there he may be undazzled2
by riches and similar trumpery, and may not precipitate himself into
tyrannies and similar doings and so work many evils past cure and suffer
still greater himself, but may know how always to choose in such things the
life that is seated in the mean3 and shun the
excess in either direction, both in this world so far as may be and in all
the life to come;
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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