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Quotation from Statesman by Plato
“never to allow temperate natures to be separated from the brave, but to weave them together, like the warp and the woof, by common sentiments and honours and reputation, and by the giving of pledges to one another”
Statesman, Royal weaving (310e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The whole task of the royal weaver summed up in one image from the paradigm of weaving.
Citation: "never to allow temperate natures to be separated from the brave, but to weave them together, like the warp and the woof, by common sentiments and honours and reputation, and by the giving of pledges to one another" — Plato, Statesman, Royal weaving (310e), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-statesman-q6)
