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“he would not be at a loss for
patterns.” “And the freedom from all compulsion to hold
office in such a city, even if you are qualified,1 or again, to submit to rule,
unless you please, or to make war when the rest are at war,2 or to keep the peace
when the others do so, unless you desire peace; and again, the liberty, in
defiance of any law that forbids you, to hold office and sit on juries none
the less,
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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