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Will you not be content if you
get this?” “I for my part would.”
“And I too,” he said.“Next, it seems, we must try to discover and point out what it
is that is now badly managed in our cities, and that prevents them from
being so governed, and what is the smallest change that would bring a state
to this manner of government, preferably a change in one thing, if not, then
in two, and, failing that, the fewest possible in number and the slightest
in potency.”
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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