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[689e] will always prove to be a home-wrecker and anything rather than a saviour of the State, because of his ignorance in these matters. So let this declaration stand, as we recently said, as one of our axioms.

Clinias
Yes, let it stand.

Athenian
Our States, I presume, must have rulers and subjects.

Clinias
Of course.

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