The standard of truth, justice, temperance, is as high as in the Republic;--in one respect higher, for temperance is now regarded, not as a virtue, but as the condition of all virtue.

It is finally acknowledged that the virtues are all one and connected, and that if they are separated, courage is the lowest of them.

The treatment of moral questions is less speculative but more human.

The idea of good has disappeared; the excellences of individuals--of him who is faithful in a civil broil, of the examiner who is incorruptible, are the patterns to which the lives of the citizens are to conform.

Plato is never weary of speaking of the honour of the soul, which can only be honoured truly by being improved.