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forcibly keeps down other evil
desires dwelling within,1 not persuading them that it
‘is better not’2 nor taming them by reason, but by
compulsion and fear, trembling for his possessions generally.”
“Quite so,” he said. “Yes, by Zeus,”
said I, “my friend. In most of them, when there is occasion to
spend the money of others, you will discover the existence of drone-like
appetites.” “Most emphatically.”
“Such a man, then, would not be free from internal
dissension.3 He would not be really
one, but in some sort a double4 man. Yet for the most part,
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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