Laws

Отрывок из книги

Warsaw 2019

BOOK II

.....

CLEINIAS:...Moreover, there is a victory and defeat–the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats–which each man gains or sustains at the hands, not of another, but of himself; this shows that there is a war against ourselves going on within every one of us.

ATHENIAN: Let us now reverse the order of the argument: Seeing that every individual is either his own superior or his own inferior, may we say that there is the same principle in the house, the village, and the state?

.....