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Plato, Critias, Page 121a: Gold borne lightly, and the divine part fading
The kings carried their wealth like a light load, were not made reckless by luxury, and knew that goods grow from friendship with virtue and perish when pursued for their own sake. When the god's portion began to fade, the sentence runs on into the next section.
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