Plato, Laws, Book 7, section 810d

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[810d]

Clinias
Well, what is it about them that you are now alluding to, and what has come over you?

Athenian
I will tell you: it is no easy matter to gainsay tens of thousands of tongues.

Clinias
Come now,—do you believe that the points in which our previous conclusions about laws contradicted ordinary opinion were few and trifling?

Athenian
Your observation is most just. I take it that you are bidding me, now that the path which is abhorrent to many is attractive to others possibly not less numerous

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.

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