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and warlike and another
unwarlike and averse to gymnastics?” “I think
not.” “And again, one a lover, another a hater, of
wisdom? And one high-spirited, and the other lacking spirit?”
“That also is true.” “Then it is likewise true
that one woman has the qualities of a guardian and another not. Were not
these the natural qualities of the men also whom we selected for
guardians?” “They were.” “The women
and the men, then, have the same nature in respect to the guardianship of
the state, save in so far as the one is weaker, the other
stronger.” “Apparently.”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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