Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free f — Plato, The Republic
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free f — Plato, The Republic
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free f — Plato, The Republic
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free f — Plato, The Republic
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free f — Plato, The Republic
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.

— Plato, The Republic
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