Plato, Laws, Book 7, section 798e

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[798e] or bad men? Or how do we stand?

Clinias
Our view at least remains unaltered.

Athenian
We assert, then, that every means must be employed, not only to prevent our children from desiring to copy different models in dancing or singing, but also to prevent anyone from tempting them by the inducement of pleasures of all sorts.

Clinias
Quite right.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.

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