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be disdainful of wealth
too in his youth, but the older he grew the more he would love it because of
his participation in the covetous nature and because his virtue is not
sincere and pure since it lacks the best guardian?”
“What guardian?” said Adeimantus.
“Reason,” said I, “blended with culture,1 which is the only
indwelling preserver of virtue throughout life in the soul that possesses
it.” “Well said,” he replied. “This
is the character,” I said, “of the timocratic youth,
resembling the city that bears his name.” “By all
means.”
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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