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“Then those who have no experience of wisdom and virtue, who are always at their feastings and so forth, are being carried downwards...
Like brute beasts, they look downwards, and feed stopping over the ground and poking their noses into their tables ... they kick and butt with iron horns and hooves and kill one another because of their insatiate desire”

“Every seed or growth,” I said, “vegetable or animal, the stronger it is the more it falls short of being its proper self, if it lacks the nurture that each ought to have and the proper place and season: for evil is more opposed to the good than to the not-good.”

Brings to mind Sondheim's 'Sunday in the Park with George': "Pretty isn't beautiful; pretty is what changes ..."

Book V taken from summary: "Changing world of the senses is the object of opinion, but the unchanging world of realities is the object of true knowledge."

"Then everything which is in a good state, either by nature or by art or both, least admits change by something else."