Plato, Laws 662a
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Plato, Laws 662a Ancient Greek
Plato, Laws
ποιῶν ὅτιπερ ἐπιθυμοῖ τὸν βίον ἅπαντα, οὐχ ὑμῖν δοκεῖ, εἴπερ ἄδικος εἴη καὶ ὑβριστής, ἐξ ἀνάγκης αἰσχρῶς ἂν ζῆν; ἢ τοῦτο μὲν ἴσως ἂν συγχωρήσαιτε, τό γε αἰσχρῶς; πάνυ μὲν οὖν. τί δέ; τὸ καὶ κακῶς; οὐκ ἂν ἔτι τοῦθʼ ὁμοίως. τί δέ; τὸ καὶ ἀηδῶς καὶ μὴ συμφερόντως αὑτῷ; καὶ πῶς ἂν ταῦτά γʼ ἔτι συγχωροῖμεν;
is really unjust and insolent, he must necessarily be living a base life? Probably you will agree at any rate to call it base? Certainly. And also a bad life? We would not go so far as to admit that. Well, would you admit the epithets unpleasant and unprofitable to himself? How could we agree to such further descriptions? How? do you ask? Only (as it seems, my friend)
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Plato, Laws 662a — Perseus Digital Library — canonical-greekLit (Tufts University) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg034.perseus-grc2:662a