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and who in war are not easily moved and aroused
to fear, are apt to act in the same way1 when confronted with studies. They
are not easily aroused, learn with difficulty, as if benumbed,2 and are filled with sleep and yawning
when an intellectual task is set them.” “It is
so,” he said. “But we affirmed that a man must partake
of both temperaments in due and fair combination or else participate in
neither the highest3 education nor in honors
nor in rule.” “And rightly,” he said.
“Do you not think, then, that such a blend will be a rare
thing?”
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