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in all these conditions confronts
fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes. And another for
such a man engaged in works of peace, not enforced but voluntary,1 either
trying to persuade somebody of something and imploring him—whether
it be a god, through prayer, or a man, by teaching and
admonition—or contrariwise yielding himself to another who
petitioning or teaching him or trying to change his opinions, and in
consequence faring according to his wish, and not bearing himself
arrogantly, but in all this acting modestly and moderately
1 Cf. Laws 814 E.
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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