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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: Call. By giving money, to be sure.
Antisthenes sprang to his feet at once, and with the manner of a
cross-examiner demanded: Do human beings seem to you to harbour
justice in their souls, or in their purses,[2] Callias?
[2] Or, "pockets."
Call. In their souls.
Ant. And do you pretend to make their souls more righteous by putting
money in their pockets?
Call. Undoubtedly.
Ant. Pray how?
Call. In this way. When they know that they are furnished with the
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