[439c]
“By all means,” he said.
“Are we to say, then, that some men sometimes though thirsty
refuse to drink?” “We are indeed,” he said,
“many and often.” “What then,” said
I, “should one affirm about them?” “Is it not
that there is1
something in the soul that bids them drink and a something that forbids, a
different something that masters that which bids?” “I
think so.” “And is it not the fact that that which
inhibits such actions arises when it arises from the calculations of reason,
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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