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and
promise many things in private and public, and having freed men from debts,
and distributed lands to the people and his own associates, he affects a
gracious and gentle manner to all?”
“Necessarily,” he said. “But when, I suppose,
he has come to terms with some of his exiled enemies1 and has got others destroyed and is no longer disturbed
by them, in the first place he is always stirring up some war2 so that the people may be in
need of a leader.” “That is likely.”
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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