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ever to
accustom the soul to devote itself at once to the curing of the hurt and the
raising up of what has fallen, banishing threnody1 by therapy.” “That
certainly,” he said, “would be the best way to face
misfortune and deal with it.” “Then, we say, the best
part of us is willing to conform to these precepts of reason.”
“Obviously.” “And shall we not say that the
part of us that leads us to dwell in memory on our suffering and impels us
to lamentation, and cannot get enough of that sort of thing, is the
irrational and idle part of us, the associate of cowardice2?” “Yes, we will say that.”
“And does 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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