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anything else they do would be an unhallowed thing in a happy state and the
rulers will not suffer it.” “It would not be
right,” he said. “Obviously, then, we must arrange
marriages, sacramental so far as may be. And the most sacred marriages would
be those that were most beneficial.”
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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