Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 130b

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Alcibiades
We have.

Socrates
And does the body rule itself?

Alcibiades
By no means.

Socrates
Because we have said that it is ruled.

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
Then that cannot be what we are seeking.

Alcibiades
It seems not.

Socrates
Well then, does the combination of the two rule the body, so that we are to regard this as man?

Alcibiades
Perhaps it is.

Socrates
The unlikeliest thing in the world: for if one of the two does not share in the rule, it is quite inconceivable that the combination of the two can be ruling.

Alcibiades
You are right.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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