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and political
leadership, while it befits the other sort to let philosophy alone and to
follow their leader.” “It is high time,” he
said, “to produce your definition.” “Come,
then, follow me on this line, if we may in some fashion or other explain our
meaning.” “Proceed,” he said. “Must
I remind you, then,” said I, “or do you remember, that
when we affirm that a man is a lover of something, it must be apparent that
he is fond of all of it? It will not do to say that some of it he likes and
some1 does not.”“I think you will have to remind
me,” he said,
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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