“"How about your service of Aphrodite, Sophocles—is your natural force still unabated?" And he replied, 'Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master."”

—  Sophocles

Plato, Republic, 1.329c. Translated by Paul Shorey.

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