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on the other hand, as I believe you regard them.Well then, I said, since I find you chafe at this suggestion, we will let it pass, and consider another instance that you gave. Is there a thing you call folly?Yes, he said.Is not the direct opposite to that thing wisdom?I think so, he said.And when men behave rightly and usefully, do you consider them temperate in so behaving, or the opposite?Temperate, he said.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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