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The Republic · Rep. 375c

What is to be done then? I said; how shall we find a gentle nature which has also a great spirit, for the one is the contradiction of the other?
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Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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