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But,
on the other hand, when the man, whose habits of
living and of eating are wholesome and temperate,
surrenders himself to sleep, having the thinking
and reasoning portion of his soul eager and erect,
and satisfied by a feast of noble thoughts, and
having that portion which feeds on carnal pleasures
neither utterly exhausted by abstinence nor cloyed
by over-indulgence—for, as a rule, the edge of
thought is dulled whether nature is starved or
overfed—and, when such a man, in addition, has
that third portion of the soul, in which the fire of
anger burns, quieted and subdued—thus having the
two irrational portions under complete control—then will the thinking and reasoning portion of his
soul shine forth and show itself keen and strong
for dreaming and then will his dreams be peaceful
and worthy of trust.' I have reproduced Plato's
very words.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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