[577d]
“the man resembles the state, must
not the same proportion1 obtain in him, and his soul teem2 with boundless
servility and illiberality, the best and most reasonable parts of it being
enslaved, while a small part, the worst and the most frenzied, plays the
despot?” “Inevitably,” he said.
“Then will you say that such a soul is enslaved or
free?” “Enslaved, I should suppose.”
“Again, does not the enslaved and tyrannized city least of all do
what it really wishes3?”
“Decidedly so.” “Then the tyrannized
soul—
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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