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and another doing the same to his
own separate house, and having women and children apart, thus introducing
into the state the pleasures and pains of individuals? They should all
rather, we said, share one conviction about their own, tend to one goal, and
so far as practicable have one experience of pleasure and pain.”
“By all means,” he said. “Then will not
law-suits and accusations against one another vanish,1 one may say,2 from among them, because they have
nothing in private possession but their bodies, but all else in common?
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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