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the individual is brave, thereby and so is the
state brave, and that both should have all the other constituents of virtue
in the same way1?” “Necessarily.”
“Just too, then, Glaucon, I presume we shall say a man is in the
same way in which a city was just.” “That too is quite
inevitable.” “But we surely cannot have forgotten this,
that the state was just by reason of each of the three classes found in it
fulfilling its own function.” “I don't think we have
forgotten,” he said. “We must remember, then, that each
of us also in whom2 the several parts
within him
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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