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by nature and habit, without philosophy or reason, the social and civil virtues which are called moderation and justice?”“How are these happiest?”“Don't you see? Is it not likely that they pass again into some such social and gentle species as that of bees or of wasps or ants, or into the human race again, and that worthy men spring from them?”“Yes.”“And no one who has not been a philosopher and who is not wholly pure when he departs, is allowed to enter into the communion of the gods,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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