[572c]
His development was determined by his education
from youth under a thrifty father who approved only the acquisitive
appetites and disapproved the unnecessary ones whose object is entertainment
and display. Is not that so?” “Yes.”
“And by association with more sophisticated men, teeming with the
appetites we have just described, he is impelled towards every form of
insolence and outrage, and to the adoption of their way of life by his
hatred of his father's niggardliness. But since his nature is better than
that of his corrupters,
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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