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are not altogether
worthy of our fellowship, but whose strength of body is sufficient for toil;
so they, selling the use of this strength and calling the price wages, are
designated, I believe, wage-earners, are they not?”
“Certainly.” “Wage-earners, then, it seems,
are the complement that helps to fill up the state.”1“I think
so.” “Has our city, then, Adeimantus, reached its full
growth and is it complete?” “Perhaps.”
“Where, then, can justice and injustice be found in it? And along
with which of the constituents that we have considered does it come into the
state?”
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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