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or from his
other kin, who admonish and reproach him, then there arises faction1 and
counter-faction and internal strife in the man with himself.”
“Surely.” “And sometimes, I suppose, the
democratic element retires before the oligarchical, some of its appetites
having been destroyed and others2
expelled, and a sense of awe and reverence grows up in the young man's soul
and order is restored.” “That sometimes
happens,” he said. “And sometimes, again, another brood
of desires akin to those expelled
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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