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and dine from tables and have made
dishes and sweetmeats such as are now in use.”
“Good,” said I, “I understand. It is not
merely the origin of a city, it seems, that we are considering but the
origin of a luxurious city. Perhaps that isn't such a bad suggestion,
either. For by observation of such a city it may be we could discern the
origin of justice and injustice in states. The true state I believe to be
the one we have described—the healthy state, as it were. But if it
is your pleasure that we contemplate also a fevered state, there is nothing
to hinder.
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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