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the yearning for that sojourn above. For this, I take it, is likely if in this
point too the likeness of our image holds” “Yes, it is
likely.” “And again, do you think it at all
strange,” said I, “if a man returning from divine
contemplations to the petty miseries1 of men cuts a sorry figure2 and appears most ridiculous, if, while still
blinking through the gloom, and before he has become sufficiently accustomed to
the environing darkness, he is compelled in courtrooms3 or elsewhere to contend about the shadows of justice or the
images4 that cast the shadows and to wrangle in debate
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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