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Plato, Laws 696c

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Plato, Laws 696c Ancient Greek Plato, Laws
εὐφήμει. τί δέ; τεχνικὸν μὲν καὶ περὶ ταῦτα σοφόν, ἄδικον δέ; οὐδαμῶς. ἀλλὰ μὴν τό γε δίκαιον οὐ φύεται χωρὶς τοῦ σωφρονεῖν. πῶς γὰρ ἄν; οὐδὲ μὴν ὅν γε σοφὸν ἡμεῖς νυνδὴ προυθέμεθα, τὸν τὰς ἡδονὰς καὶ λύπας κεκτημένον συμφώνους τοῖς ὀρθοῖς λόγοις καὶ ἑπομένας. οὐ γὰρ οὖν. ἔτι δὴ καὶ τόδε ἐπισκεψώμεθα τῶν ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν
Don’t suggest such a thing! Well then,—a man wise in arts and crafts, but unjust. Certainly not. But justice, surely, is not bred apart from temperance. Impossible. Nor is he whom we recently proposed as our type of wisdom,—the man who has his feelings of pleasure and pain in accord with the dictates of right reason and obedient thereto. No, indeed.
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Plato, Laws 696c — Perseus Digital Library — canonical-greekLit (Tufts University) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg034.perseus-grc2:696c