Gryllus
GRYLLUS. Then you confess that the souls of beasts are the more perfect, and more fertilely endued for the production of virtue; seeing that without any command or instruction—as it were without sowing or ploughing—it produces and increases that virtue which is requisite for every one.
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Ulysses
ULYSSES. Prithee, Gryllus, don’t rave, but tell me what those virtues are that beasts partake of?