The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Relationship Between Drought and Drink
When the term science is no longer used absolutely, but has a qualified object which in this case is the nature of health and disease, it becomes defined. I do not mean to say that relatives may not be desperate or that the sciences of good and evil are therefore good and evil. If one term is qualified, the other is also qualified. Would you not say that thirst is one of these essentially relative terms, having clearly a relation? Yes, thirst is relative to drink. And if you suppose something which pulls a thirsty soul away from drink, that must be different from the thirsty principle which draws him like a beast to drink. The same thing cannot at the same time with the same part
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