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then, I presume, that, when anyone of the citizens suffers aught of good
or evil, will be most likely to speak of the part that suffers as its own
and will share the pleasure or the pain as a whole.”
“Inevitably,” he said, “if it is well
governed.”“It is
time,” I said, “to return to our city and observe
whether it, rather than any other, embodies the qualities agreed upon in our
argument.1”
“We must,” he said. “Well, then,
1 For these further confirmations of an established thesis cf. on 442-443.
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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