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since, though it was in their power to have everything of the citizens,
they had nothing, and we, I believe, replied that this was a consideration
to which we would return if occasion offered, but that at present we were
making our guardians guardians and the city as a whole as happy as possible,
and that we were not modelling1 our ideal of happiness with reference to any
one class?” “I do remember,” he said.
“Well then, since now the life of our helpers2 has been shown to be fairer and better than
that of the victors at Olympia,
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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