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[491e] that are in himself.

Callicles
You will have your pleasantry! You mean “the simpletons” by “the temperate.”

Socrates
How so? Nobody can fail to see that I do not mean that.

Callicles
Oh, you most certainly do, Socrates. For how can a man be happy if he is a slave to anybody at all? No, natural fairness and justice, I tell you now quite frankly, is this—that he who would live rightly should let his desires be


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