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since they do not have
within themselves patterns answering to the affections of the
bad.” “That is indeed their experience,” he
said. “Therefore it is,” said I, that the good judge
must not be a youth but an old man, a late learner1 of the nature of
injustice, one who has not become aware of it as a property in his own soul,
but one who has through the long years trained himself to understand it as
an alien thing in alien souls, and to discern how great an evil it is
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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