The Republic, by Plato. Part II.
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The Lesser in the Greater
Homer and Hesiod are the great storytellers of mankind, said Ademantus. But most of those which are now in use must be discarded, he added. The young man should not be told that in committing the worst of crimes he is far from doing anything outrageous, I said. And if we mean our future guardians to regard their habit of quarrelling among themselves as of all things, the basest, should any word be said to them of the wars in heaven? If possible, they had better be buried in silence; but if there is an absolute necessity for their mention, a chosen few might hear them in a mystery. For a young the person cannot judge
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