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and too soft to stand up
against pleasure and pain,1 and
mere idlers?” “Surely.” “And do they
not fasten upon themselves the habit of neglect of everything except the
making of money, and as complete an indifference to virtue as the paupers
exhibit?” “Little they care.” “And
when, thus conditioned, the rulers and the ruled are brought together on the
march, in wayfaring, or in some other common undertaking, either a religious
festival, or a campaign, or as shipmates or fellow-soldiers
1 Cf. 429 C-D, Laches 191 D-E, Laws 633 D.
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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