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in some sort gentle to friends and
familiars he must be by nature a lover of wisdom and of learning?”
“Let us so assume,” he replied. “The love of
wisdom, then, and high spirit and quickness and strength will be combined
for us in the nature of him who is to be a good and true guardian of the
state.” “By all means,” he said.
“Such, then,” I said, “would be the basis1 of his character. But the rearing of these men and their
education, how shall we manage that? And will the consideration of this
topic advance us
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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