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of all the
wealth of other cities in one does not involve danger for the state that has
no wealth.” “What happy innocence,” said I,
“to suppose that you can properly use the name city of any other
than the one we are constructing.” “Why, what should we
say?” he said. “A greater predication,” said
I, “must be applied to the others. For they are each one of them
many cities, not a city, as it goes in the game.1 There are two at the least at enmity with one
another, the city of the rich
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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