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tempted and incited by wealth or command of votes or bodily strength or
some similar advantage tries to enter into the class of the soldiers or one
of the soldiers into the class of counsellors and guardians, for which he is
not fitted, and these interchange their tools and their honors or when the
same man undertakes all these functions at once, then, I take it, you too
believe that this kind of substitution and meddlesomeness is the ruin of a
state.” “By all means.” “The
interference with one another's business, then, of three existent classes
and the substitution of the one for the other
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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