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the unjust life requires us to discuss.”
“What, then,” he said, “comes next?”
“What else,” said I, “but the next in order?
Since the philosophers are those who are capable of apprehending that which
is eternal and unchanging,1
while those who are incapable of this but lose themselves and wander2 amid the
multiplicities of multifarious things, are not philosophers, which of the
two kinds ought to be the leaders in a state?” “What,
then,” he said, “would be a fair statement of the
matter?” “Whichever,” I said,
“appear competent to guard the laws and pursuits of society,
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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