[705d]
Athenian
That a State should not find it easy to copy its enemies in bad habits is a good thing.Clinias
To which of our statements does this observation allude?Athenian
My dear Sir, keep a watch on me, with an eye cast back on our opening1 statement about the Cretan laws. It asserted that those laws aimed at one single object; and whereas you declared that this object was military strength, I made the rejoinder that, while it was right that such enactments should have virtue for their aim, I did not at all approve of that aim being restricted to a part, instead of applying to the whole.
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1 Cp. Plat. Laws 625e.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.
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