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[514a] of those who are going to acquire either great wealth or special authority or any other sort of power be fair and honorable. Are we to grant that?

Callicles
Certainly, if you so prefer.

Socrates
Then if you and I, Callicles, in setting about some piece of public business for the state, were to invite one another to see to the building part of it, say the most important erections either of walls or arsenals or temples, would it be our duty to consider and examine ourselves,


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    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 513e
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 516b
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 518c
    • J. Adam, A. M. Adam, Commentary on Plato, Protagoras, CHAPTER XXXVI
    • James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 4.445E
    • James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 5.473C
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    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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