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in the multitude and the rabble by the desires and the
wisdom that dwell in the minority of the better?” “I
do,” he said.“If, then,
there is any city that deserves to be described as master of its pleasures
and desires and self-mastered, this one merits that designation.”
“Most assuredly,” he said. “And is it not also
to be called sober1 in all these respects?”
“Indeed it is,” he said. “And yet again, if
there is any city in which
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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