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are next driving on the highway and see something like that.
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It is the thumos that is the cause of
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--that should be the cause of your shame at slowing down to look.
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Sometimes we can't help but slow down
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because everybody is slowed down in front of us, we have no choice.
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But anyway, that incident, that story that Socrates relates is
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connected to the fact that Leontius is a certain kind of man.
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He regards himself as proud, independent,
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someone who wants to be in control of his emotions but isn't.
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He is a soul at war with himself,
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and potentially therefore, at war with others.
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And what the Republic tries to do is to offer us strategies,