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the result is
that a good guardian is impossible.” “It seems
likely,” he said. And I was at a standstill, and after
reconsidering what we had been saying, I said, “We deserve to be
at a loss, my friend, for we have lost sight of the comparison that we set
before ourselves.1” “What do you mean?” “We
failed to note that there are after all such natures as we thought
impossible, endowed with these opposite qualities.”
“Where?” “It may be observed in other animals,
but especially in that which we
1 Plato never really deduces his argument from the imagery which he uses to illustrate it.
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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