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Plato - The Republic said:[SOCRATES:]Moreover, when you are looking to see whether a soul is philosophic or not, you’ll look to see whether it is just and gentle, from youth on, or savage and hard to associate with.
[GLAUCON:]Certainly.
And here’s something I think you won’t leave out. [c]
What?
Whether he’s a slow learner or a fast one. Or do you ever expect anyone to love something when it pains him to do it and when much effort brings only small return?
No, it couldn’t happen.
And what if he could retain nothing of what he learned, because he was full of forgetfulness? Could he fail to be empty of knowledge?
How could he?
Then don’t you think that, if he’s laboring in vain, he’d inevitably come to hate both himself and that activity in the end?
Of course.
Then let’s never include a forgetful soul among those who are sufficiently [d] philosophical for our purposes, but look for one with a good memory.