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that exhorts him to
resist, while that which urges him to give way to his grief is the bare
feeling itself?” “True.” “And where
there are two opposite impulses1 in a man
at the same time about the same thing we say that there must needs be two
things2 in
him.” “Of course.” “And is not the
one prepared to follow the guidance of the law as the law leads and
directs?” “How so?” “The law, I
suppose, declares that it is best to keep quiet as far as possible in
calamity and not to chafe and repine, because we cannot know what is really
good and evil in such things3 and it advantages us nothing
to take them hard,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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