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to call it mine,1” he said; “at any
rate we must not accept it.” “But further we must surely
prize truth most highly. For if we were right in what we were just saying
and falsehood is in very deed useless to gods, but to men useful as a remedy
or form of medicine,2 it is
obvious that such a thing must be assigned to physicians and laymen should
have nothing to do with it.” “Obviously,” he
replied. “The rulers then of the city may, if anybody, fitly lie
on account of enemies or citizens for the benefit3 of
the state; no others may have anything to do with it,
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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