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intelligence
and sobriety?” “Nay, most rightly.”
“And may we not call the one group the spendthrift desires and the
other the profitable,1 because they help
production?” “Surely.” “And we shall
say the same of sexual and other appetites?” “The
same.” “And were we not saying that the man whom we
nicknamed the drone is the man who teems2 with such
pleasures and appetites, and who is governed by his unnecessary desires,
while the one who is ruled
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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