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Quotation from Critias by Plato

“but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly”

Plato (spoken by Critias)

Critias, Stephanus 121a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The turning point of the story: Atlantis decays from within before any war is fought.

Citation: "but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 121a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q8)

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