The Republic, by Plato. Part II.
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The Importance of a Resolution
"We must watch them from their youth upwards, and make them perform actions in which they are most likely to forget or to be deceived," he said. "He who remembers and is not deceived is to be selected, and he who fails in the trial is to be rejected." He went on: "So we take our youth amid terrors of some kind,. and again pass them into pleasures, and again prove them more affernance than gold ... Now we may discover whether they are armed against all that enchantments can do!"
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