'Explain.' No one would like to live in the same house with a courageous man who had no control over himself, nor with a clever artist who was a rogue.

Nor can justice and wisdom ever be separated from temperance.

But considering these qualities with reference to the honour and dishonour which is to be assigned to them in states, would you say, on the other hand, that temperance, if existing without the other virtues in the soul, is worth anything or nothing?
'I cannot tell.' You have answered well.

It would be absurd to speak of temperance as belonging to the class of honourable or of dishonourable qualities, because all other virtues in their various classes require temperance to be added to them; having the addition, they are honoured not in proportion to that, but to their own excellence.

And ought not the legislator to determine these classes?
'Certainly.' Suppose then that, without going into details, we make three great classes of them.