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I am sure you too would say are they who
alter their opinions under the spell of pleasure or terrified by some
fear.” “Yes,” he said: “everything
that deceives appears to cast a spell upon the mind.”“Well then, as I was just saying, we must
look for those who are the best guardians of the indwelling conviction that
what they have to do is what they at any time believe to be best for the
state. Then we must observe them from childhood up and propose them tasks in
which one would be most likely to forget this principle or be deceived, and
he whose memory is sure
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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