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and in other
ways sinning against themselves and others in word and deed after the
fashion of such men. And I take it they must not form the habit of likening
themselves to madmen either in words nor yet in deeds. For while knowledge
they must have1 both of mad and bad men and women, they must do and imitate
nothing of this kind.” “Most true,” he said.
“What of this?” I said, “—are they
to imitate smiths and other craftsmen or the rowers of triremes and those
who call the time to them or other things
1 Cf. Laws 816 D-E.
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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