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Excellent, I said, and you may see passion equally in brute

animals, which is a further proof of the truth of what you are

saying. And we may once more appeal to the words of Homer, which

have been already quoted by us,

'He smote his breast, and thus rebuked his soul,'

for in this verse Homer has clearly supposed the power which

reasons about the better and worse to be different from the

unreasoning anger which is rebuked by it.

Very true, he said.

And so, after much tossing, we have reached land, and are fairly

agreed that the same principles which exist in the State exist

also in the individual, and that they are three in number.

Exactly.

Must we not then infer that the individual is wise in the same

way, and in virtue of the same quality which makes the State

wise?

Certainly.

Also that the same quality which constitutes courage in the State

constitutes courage in the individual, and that both the State

and the individual bear the same relation to all the other

virtues?

Assuredly.