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that principle of love of honor and that
high spirit, and being humbled by poverty turns to the getting of money, and
greedily1 and
stingily and little by little by thrift and hard work collects property. Do
you not suppose that such a one will then establish on that throne the
principle of appetite and avarice, and set it up as the great king in his
soul, adorned with tiaras and collars of gold, and girt with the Persian
sword?” “I do,” he said. “And under
this domination he will force the rational
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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