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need we compare1 it with the life of cobblers
and other craftsmen and farmers?” “I think
not,” he said. “But further, we may fairly repeat what I
was saying then also, that if the guardian shall strive for a kind of
happiness that will unmake2 him as a guardian
and shall not be content with the way of life that is moderate and secure
and, as we affirm, the best, but if some senseless and childish opinion
about happiness shall beset him and impel him to use his power to
appropriate
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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