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or
violence?” “Most certainly.” “And so
he is compelled to sweep it in from every source1 or else be
afflicted with great travail and pain.2” “He
is.” “And just as the new, upspringing pleasures in him
got the better of the original passions of his soul and robbed them, so he
himself, though younger, will claim the right to get the better3 of his father and
mother, and, after spending his own share, to seize and convert to his own
use a portion of his father's estate.” “Of
course,” he said, “what else?” “And
if they resist him,
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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