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The Republic - Plato ยท 60 words
Well, then, we were led to form our ideal polity in the search after justice, and the just man answered to the just State. Is this ideal at all the worse for being impracticable. Would the picture of a perfectly beautiful man be any the worse because no such man ever lived. Can any reality come up to the idea.
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