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“in calling a city cowardly or brave would fix his eyes on any
other part of it than that which defends it and wages war in its
behalf?” “No one at all,” he said.
“For the reason, I take it,” said I, “that the
cowardice or the bravery1 of the other
inhabitants does not determine for it the one quality or the other.2” “It does
not.” “Bravery too, then, belongs to a city by virtue of
a part of itself owing to its possession in that part of a quality that
under all conditions will preserve the conviction
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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