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“Must we not then guard by every means in our
power against our helpers treating the citizens in any such way and, because
they are the stronger, converting themselves from benign assistants into
savage masters?” “We must,” he said.
“And would they not have been provided with the chief safeguard if
their education has really been a good one?” “But it
surely has,” he said. “That,” said I,
“dear Glaucon, we may not properly affirm,1 but what we were just now saying we may,
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