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“In my
opinion,” I said, “it belongs in the fairest class, that
which a man who is to be happy must love both for its own sake and for the
results.” “Yet the multitude,” he said,
“do not think so, but that it belongs to the toilsome class of
things that must be practised for the sake of rewards and repute due to
opinion but that in itself is to be shunned as an
affliction.”“I am
aware,” said I, “that that is the general opinion and
Thrasymachus has for some time been disparaging it as such and praising
injustice. But I, it seems, am somewhat slow to learn.”
“Come now,”
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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