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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“for truly he has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged, not in the Ionian, or in the Phrygian mode, nor yet in the Lydian, but in the true Hellenic mode, which is the Dorian, and no other”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 188d), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Laches explains why he will gladly be questioned by Socrates, whose conduct at Delium he has seen: the speaker's life must match his speech.
Citation: "for truly he has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged, not in the Ionian, or in the Phrygian mode, nor yet in the Lydian, but in the true Hellenic mode, which is the Dorian, and no other" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Laches (Stephanus 188d), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q9)
