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and the body are joined together, nature directs the one to serve and be ruled, and the other to rule and be master. Now this being the case, which seems to you like the divine, and which like the mortal? Or do you not think that the divine is by nature fitted to rule and lead, and the mortal to obey and serve?”“Yes, I think so.”“Which, then, does the soul resemble?”“Clearly, Socrates, the soul is like the divine and the body like the mortal.”“Then see, Cebes, if this is not the conclusion from all that we have said,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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