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in
fancy or with anyone else, man, god or brute. It is ready for any foul deed
of blood; it abstains from no food, and, in a word, falls short of no
extreme of folly1 and shamelessness.”
“Most true,” he said. “But when, I suppose, a
man's condition is healthy and sober, and he goes to sleep after arousing
his rational part and entertaining it with fair words and thoughts, and
attaining to clear self-consciousness, while he has neither starved
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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