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to
cringings and servitudes beyond compare, a flatterer of the basest men, and
that, so far from finding even the least satisfaction for his desires, he is
in need of most things, and is a poor man in very truth, as is apparent if
one knows how to observe a soul in its entirety; and throughout his life he
teems with terrors and is full of convulsions and pains, if in fact he
resembles the condition of the city which he rules; and he is like it, is he
not?”
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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