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land or any other property, but that they
should receive from the other citizens for their support the wage of their
guardianship and all spend it in common. That was the condition of their
being true guardians.” “Right,” he said.
“Is it not true, then, as I am trying to say, that those former
and these present prescriptions tend to make them still more truly guardians
and prevent them from distracting the city by referring
‘mine’ not to the same but to different things, one man
dragging off to his own house anything he is able to acquire apart from the
rest,
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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