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ever be put into practice within the limits of possibility and see the
light of the sun. But this is the thing that has made me so long shrink from
speaking out, because I saw that it would be a very paradoxical saying. For
it is not easy1 to see that there is no other way of
happiness either for private or public life.” Whereupon he,
“Socrates,” said he, “after hurling at us such
an utterance and statement as that, you must expect to be attacked by a
great multitude of our men of light and leading,2
who forthwith will, so to speak, cast off their garments3
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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