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and not
disturb the better part by its pleasure or pain, but may suffer that in
isolated purity to examine and reach out towards and apprehend some of the
things unknown to it, past, present or future and when he has in like manner
tamed his passionate part, and does not after a quarrel fall asleep1
with anger still awake within him, but if he has thus quieted the two
elements in his soul and quickened the third, in which reason resides, and
so goes to his rest, you are aware that in such case2 he is most likely to apprehend truth,
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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