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“That
is inevitable,” he said. “Is there any possibility of
such a one continuing to philosophize?” “None at
all,” he said.“Do you
see, then,” said I,” that we were not wrong in saying
that the very qualities that make up the philosophical nature do, in fact,
become, when the environment and nurture are bad, in some sort the cause of
its backsliding,1 and so do the so-called
goods—2 riches and all such instrumentalities3?” “No,” he
replied, “it was rightly said.” “Such, my good
friend, and so great as regards the noblest pursuit,
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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