An idea from The Republic

Picture a person as a many-headed beast, a lion and a small human under one skin. Injustice feeds the beast and starves the human. Justice has the human, helped by the lion, tend the beast. Anyone can live by the ideal city’s pattern, even if it never exists.

From The Republic by Plato

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