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and that he is the one who is the most
kingly and a king over himself;1 and declared that the most evil and most
unjust is the most unhappy, who again is the man who, having the most of the
tyrannical temper in himself, become, most of a tyrant over himself and over
the state?” “Let it have been so proclaimed by
you,” he said. “Shall I add the clause ‘alike
whether their character is known to all men and gods or is not
known’2?” “Add that to the
proclamation,” he said.“Very good,” said I; “this, then, would be
one of our proofs,
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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