The Education of the Young in the Republic of Plato
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I S3 or the harbour^ or anything else of the kind — shall we bring ourselves to enact any of them by law ? Why, he said, it is not fitting matter for injunctions upon good and honourable men ; they will easily devise for the most part any legislation that is needed. Yes, my friend, I said ; if God grants them safekeeping^ of e the laws which we described before. And if not, he replied, they will spend their lives perpetually enacting and amending things of the kind, expecting some day to hit up...on the very best. You mean that such men will live like invalids whose intemperance makes them refuse to depart from their unwhole- some mode of life^ Exactly so. 426 a And how charmingly these spend their days. For they gain nothing by continual treatment except to make their ailments more varied and more intense, hoping all the time that every new remedy which is suggested will at last make them well. Precisely, he said ; that is the experience of invalids of that type. And further, is not this a graceful feature in them, that they think their greatest enemy to be any one who tells them the truth, that unless they stop drinking and stuffing and indulging their lust, and idling, neither drugs nor cauteries nor the knife, B nor again spells nor amulets nor anything else of the kind will do them any good ?
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