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“Impossible,” he said:
“for we shall be imposing just commands on men who are just. Yet they
will assuredly approach office as an unavoidable necessity,1 and in the opposite
temper from that of the present rulers in our cities.” “For
the fact is, dear friend,” said I, “if you can discover a
better way of life than office-holding
1 Cf. Vol. I. p. 80, note b on 347 C.
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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