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Justice and Kindness accompany the other moral virtues (486 B). Aptness to learn, memory, and the virtue of a modest and agreeable disposition also fit one for the study of the Ideas: cf. 486 D n. It will be noticed that all the Virtues receive an intellectual colouring from their connexion — direct or indirect — with amor intellec tualis': see above on 485 A if.