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is the
same as that of the man to the man?” “Of
course.” “What is, then, in respect of virtue, the
relation of a city ruled by a tyrant to a royal city as we first described
it?” “They are direct contraries,” he said;
“the one is the best, the other the worst.”
“I’ll not ask which is which,” I said,
“because that is obvious. But again in respect of happiness and
wretchedness, is your estimate the same or different? And let us not be
dazzled1 by fixing our eyes on that one man, the tyrant, or a
few2 of his court, but let us enter
into and survey the entire city,
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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