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if possible, over all men, and failing that, over as many as might be; so would you, I imagine, and everybody else besides: nay, even more, I daresay, that I might become a god; but I did not say I desired that.Socrates
Well, what on earth then is it that you do desire? Do you not say you desire to govern the citizens?Theages
Yes, but not by force, or as despots do, but with their consent, as is done by all the other men of importance in the state.Socrates
Do you mean, as by Themistocles and Pericles and Cimon, and by all those who have shown themselves able statesmen?Theages
Yes, in good earnest, I mean those people.
Well, what on earth then is it that you do desire? Do you not say you desire to govern the citizens?Theages
Yes, but not by force, or as despots do, but with their consent, as is done by all the other men of importance in the state.Socrates
Do you mean, as by Themistocles and Pericles and Cimon, and by all those who have shown themselves able statesmen?Theages
Yes, in good earnest, I mean those people.
