Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 135e

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[135e]

Socrates
Ah, generous friend! So my love will be just like a stork; for after hatching a winged love in you it is to be cherished in return by its nestling.¹

Alcibiades
Well, that is the position, and I shall begin here and now to take pains over justice.

Socrates
I should like to think you will continue to do so; yet I am apprehensive, not from any distrust of your nature, but in view of the might of the state, lest it overcome both me and you.

1 It was commonly believed that aged storks were fed by younger storks which they had previously hatched and reared.

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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