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the tyrant in his flight from law and reason
crosses the border beyond1 the spurious, cohabits with certain slavish,
mercenary pleasures, and the measure of his inferiority is not easy to
express except perhaps thus.” “How?” he said.
“The tyrant, I believe, we found at the third remove from the
oligarch, for the democrat came between.”
“Yes.” “And would he not also dwell with a
phantom of pleasure in respect of reality three stages removed from that
other, if all that we have said is true?” “That is
so.” “And the oligarch in turn is at the third remove
from the royal man
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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