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in a pasturage of poisonous herbs, lest grazing freely
and cropping from many such day by day they little by little and all
unawares accumulate and build up a huge mass of evil in their own souls. But
we must look for those craftsmen who by the happy gift of nature are capable
of following the trail of true beauty and grace, that our young men,
dwelling as it were in a salubrious region, may receive benefit from all
things about them, whence the influence that emanates from works of beauty
may waft itself to eye or ear like a breeze that brings from wholesome
places health,
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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