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that
resides in the guardians, or whether this is the chief cause of its
goodness, the principle embodied in child, woman, slave, free, artisan,
ruler, and ruled, that each performed his one task as one man and was not a
versatile busybody.” “Hard to decide indeed,”
he said. “A thing, then, that in its contribution to the
excellence of a state vies with and rivals its wisdom, its soberness, its
bravery, is this principle of everyone in it doing his own task.”
“It is indeed,” he said. “And is not justice
the name you would have to give1 to the
principle that rivals these as conducing to
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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