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the longer way and must labor no less in
studies than in the exercises of the body or else, as we were just saying,
he will never come to the end of the greatest study and that which most
properly belongs to him.” “Why, are not these things the
greatest?” said he; “but is there still something
greater than justice and the other virtues we described?”
“There is not only something greater,” I said,
“but of these very things we need not merely to contemplate an
outline1 as now, but we must omit
nothing of their most exact elaboration. Or would it not be absurd to strain
every nerve2 to
attain
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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