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not a sailor?” That was
admitted. “Then that sort of a pilot and ruler will not consider
and enjoin the advantage of the pilot but that of the sailor whose ruler he
is.” He assented reluctantly. “Then,” said I,
“Thrasymachus, neither does anyone in any office of rule in so far
as he is a ruler consider and enjoin his own advantage but that of the one
whom he rules and for whom he exercises his craft, and he keeps his eyes
fixed on that and on what is advantageous and suitable to that in all that
he says and does.”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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