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that soul should be cause of all motion and stirring—that the motion and stirring towards the good are the function of the best soul, and those to the opposite are the opposite1—it must be that good things have conquered and conquer things that are not their like.All this we have stated in accordance with justice, which wreaks vengeance on the impious: but now, as regards the matter under examination, it is not possible for us to disbelieve that we must deem the good man
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1 The evil soul is just hinted at; cf. Plato, Laws, x. 896-7.
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