Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 135c

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[135c]

Socrates
Then it becomes a bad man to be a slave, since it is better.

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
So vice is a thing that becomes a slave.

Alcibiades
Apparently.

Socrates
And virtue becomes a free man.

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
And we should shun, my good friend, all slavishness?

Alcibiades
Most certainly, Socrates.

Socrates
And do you now perceive how you stand? Are you on the side of the free, or not?

Alcibiades
I think I perceive only too clearly.

Socrates
Then do you know how you may escape from the condition in which you now find yourself? Let us not give it a name, where a handsome person is concerned!

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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