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we must demand a good memory
and doggedness and industry1 in every sense of the word.
Otherwise how do you suppose anyone will consent both to undergo all the toils
of the body and to complete so great a course of study and
discipline?” “No one could,” he said,
“unless most happily endowed.” “Our present
mistake,” said I, “and the disesteem that has in consequence
fallen upon philosophy are, as I said before,2 caused by the unfitness of her associates
and wooers. They should not have been bastards3 but true scions.” “What do
you mean?” he said. “In the first place,”
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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