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which has
reflected about the better and the worse as rebuking that which feels
unreasoning anger as if it were a distinct and different thing.”
“You are entirely right,” he said.“Through these waters, then,” said I,
“we have with difficulty made our way1 and we are fairly agreed that the same kinds
equal in number are to be found in the state and in the soul of each one of
us.” “That is so.” “Then does not
the necessity of our former postulate immediately follow, that as and
whereby2 the state was
wise so and thereby is the individual wise?”
“Surely.” “And so whereby and as
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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