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and shamelessness ‘manly
spirit.’ And is it not in some such way as this,” said
I, “that in his youth the transformation takes place from the
restriction to necessary desires in his education to the liberation and
release of his unnecessary and harmful desires?” “Yes,
your description is most vivid,” said he. “Then, in his
subsequent life, I take it, such a one expends money and toil and time no
more on his necessary than on his unnecessary pleasures. But if it is his
good fortune that the period of storm and stress does not last too long, and
as he grows older
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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