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he resisted1 and veiled his head, but overpowered in despite of
all by his desire, with wide staring eyes he rushed up to the corpses and
cried, ‘There, ye wretches,2 take your fill of the fine
spectacle!'” “I too,” he said, “have
heard the story.” “Yet, surely, this
anecdote,” I said, “signifies that the principle of
anger sometimes fights against desires as an alien thing against an
alien.” “Yes, it does,” he said.“And do we not,” said I,
“on many other occasions observe when his desires constrain a man
contrary to his reason
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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