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these are by nature the fewest,
the class to which it pertains to partake of the knowledge which alone of
all forms of knowledge deserves the name of wisdom.”
“Most true,” he said. “This one of our four,
then, we have, I know not how, discovered, the thing itself and its place in
the state.” “I certainly think,” said he,
“that it has been discovered sufficiently.”“But again there is no difficulty in
seeing bravery itself and the part of the city in which it resides for which
the city is called brave.1” “How so?”
“Who,” said I,
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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