Motif
animalized appetitive life
animalized_appetitive_life
A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Republic BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX.; lines 22657-22822 confidence: medium
Those who do not know wisdom and virtue are said to move only up and down as far as the mean, never reaching the true upper world; like cattle, they look downward, feed, breed, and fight one another with iron horns and hoofs because of insatiable lust.
The many are compared to cattle that look downward, feed, breed, and attack one another with iron horns and hoofs because of insatiable lust.
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