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and for this reason
that is the only city in which a man of free spirit will care to live.1” “Why,
yes,” he replied, “you hear that saying
everywhere.” “Then, as I was about to observe,2 is it
not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that
revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity
of a dictatorship?” “How?” he said.
“Why, when a democratic city athirst for liberty gets bad
cupbearers
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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