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Quotation from Critias by Plato

“holding our souls by the rudder of persuasion according to their own pleasure”

Plato (spoken by Critias)

Critias, Stephanus 109c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The gods govern their allotted peoples not by blows, as shepherds do, but like pilots at the stern.

Citation: "holding our souls by the rudder of persuasion according to their own pleasure" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 109c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q5)

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