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“that he had a
task and that life wasn't worth acceptance on condition of not doing his
work?” “Obviously,” he said. “But
the rich man, we say, has no such appointed task, the necessity of
abstaining from which renders life intolerable.” “I
haven't heard of any.” “Why, haven't you heard that
saying of Phocylides,1 that after a man has 'made his pile' he ought to
practice virtue?” “Before, too, I fancy,” he
said. “Let us not quarrel with him on that point,” I
said, “but inform ourselves whether this virtue is something for
the rich man to practise,
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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