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True.

And is temperance a good?

And is it not best to understand what is said, whether at Yes.

the writing-master’s or the music-master’s, or anywhere else, Then, in reference to the body, not quietness, but quick-not as quietly as possible, but as quickly as possible?

ness will be the higher degree of temperance, if temperance Yes.

is a good?

And in the searchings or deliberations of the soul, not True, he said.

the quietest, as I imagine, and he who with difficulty delib-And which, I said, is better—facility in learning, or diffi-erates and discovers, is thought worthy of praise, but he culty in learning?

who does so most easily and quickly?