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[490c]

Socrates
Then is he to have a larger ration than the rest of us because he is better, or ought he as ruler to have the distribution of the whole stock, with no advantage in spending and consuming it upon his own person, if he is to avoid retribution, but merely having more than some and less than others? Or if he chance to be the weakest of all, ought he not to get the smallest share of all though he be the best, Callicles? Is it not so, good sir?

Callicles
You talk of food and drink and doctors and drivel:


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 211E
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 221E
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 519a
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