[589d]
the fair and honorable
things being those that subject the brutish part of our nature to that which
is human in us, or rather, it may be, to that which is divine,1 while the foul and
base are the things that enslave the gentle nature to the wild? Will he
assent or not?” “He will if he is counselled by
me.” “Can it profit any man in the light of this thought
to accept gold unjustly if the result is to be that by the acceptance he
enslaves the best part of himself to the worst?
1 Cf. 501 B, Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years after,”in fine,“The highest Human Nature is divine.”
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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