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The Republic

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
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The State will be poor and full of misery and sorrow; and the man's soul will also be poor and full of sorrows, and he will be the most miserable of men.

No, not the most miserable, for there is yet a more miserable.
'Who is that ?' The tyrannical man who has the misfortune also to become a public tyrant.

'There I suspect that you are right.' Say rather, 'I am sure;' conjecture is out of place in an enquiry of this nature.

He is like a wealthy owner of slaves, only he has more of them than any private individual.

You will say, 'The owners of slaves are not generally in any fear of them.' But why?
Because the whole city is in a league which protects the individual.


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