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and at one time
exercising his body, and sometimes idling and neglecting all things, and at
another time seeming to occupy himself with philosophy. And frequently he
goes in for politics and bounces up1 and says and does whatever
enters his head.2 And if military men excite his emulation, thither he rushes,
and if moneyed men, to that he turns, and there is no order or compulsion in
his existence, but he calls this life of his the life of pleasure and
freedom and happiness and
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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