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if we wish our future guardians to deem nothing more
shameful than lightly to fall out with one another; still less must we make
battles of gods and giants the subject for them of stories and
embroideries,1 and other
enmities many and manifold of gods and heroes toward their kith and kin. But
if there is any likelihood of our persuading them that no citizen ever
quarrelled with his fellow-citizen and that the very idea of it is an
impiety,
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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