The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Virtue of Temperance
I wish that you would do me the favor of considering temperance first, he said. And as far as I can at present see, the virtue of temperance has more of the nature of harmony and symphony than the preceding. Temperance is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires. This is curiously enough implied in the saying of a man being his own master; other traces of the same notion may be found in language. But when owing to evil education or association, the better principle, which is also the smaller, is overwhelmed by the greater mass of the worse, he is blamed and is called the slave of self and unprincipled. Yes, there is
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