For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

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This is the first instance in which Richard will do what he later describes Mencken doing, using words as weapons.

如同门肯后来所做的,语言第一次被理查当作武器。

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