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Logic IV. 90
and righteous 427E these being the four cardinal virtues. If then we find any virtue which it possesses other than wisdom courage and self command that other must be righteousness 428A. The state is wise and its wisdom consists in the same policy [foreign text] of the Defenders although they form the smallest class of citizens. The courage of the state will consist in the soldiers knowing what is and what is not to be feared. Self command [foreign text] is a certain orderliness and a mastery of certain pleasures and of passions 430E. The Greeks had an expression [foreign text] which remind me of the French c'est plus fort que moi, things stronger than himself but is seems that they meaning was that the better part of the man controlled the worser part. At lest so Plato understands it. He says his state would have self command in that sense since the inferior classes would be subject to the superior. It was to be a veritable Aristocracy. This virtue consists in the

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