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>the beginning speech in Book V of Plato's Laws
So this is where Aristotle got his Nicomachean Ethics from.

>> No.16504559

idk

>> No.16504586

probably

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>the best way to educate the younger generation (as well as yourself) is not to rebuke them but patently to practice all your life what you preach to others.
>the body that deserves to be honored is not the handsome or the strong or the swift—nor yet the healthy (though a good many people would think it was); and it is certainly not the one with the opposite qualities to all these. He will say that the body which achieves a mean between all these extreme conditions is by far the soundest and the best-balanced, because the one extreme makes the soul bold and boastful, while the other makes it abject and groveling.
>There are two elements that make up the whole of every man. One is stronger and superior, and acts as master; the other, which is weaker and inferior, is a slave; and so a man must always respect the master in him in preference to the slave.