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And the citizens being thus agreed among themselves, in which

class will temperance be found-in the rulers or in the subjects?

In both, as I should imagine, he replied.

Do you observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that

temperance was a sort of harmony?

Why so?

Why, because temperance is unlike courage and wisdom, each of

which resides in a part only, the one making the State wise and

the other valiant; not so temperance, which extends to the whole,

and runs through all the notes of the scale, and produces a

harmony of the weaker and the stronger and the middle class,

whether you suppose them to be stronger or weaker in wisdom or

power or numbers or wealth, or anything else. Most truly then may

we deem temperance to be the agreement of the naturally superior

and inferior, as to the right to rule of either, both in states

and individuals.

I entirely agree with you.