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our inquiry will lack
clearness.” “Well,” said he, “will
our consideration of them not still be opportune1?” “By all means. And observe what it is
about them that I wish to consider. It is this. Of our unnecessary
pleasures2 and
appetites there are some lawless ones, I think, which probably are to be
found in us all, but which, when controlled3 by the laws and the better desires in alliance with
reason, can in some men be altogether got rid of, or so nearly so that only
a few weak ones remain,
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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