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So, with such an
aid to back you, try to make it plain to the doubters that the truth is as
you say.” “I must try,” I replied,
“since you proffer so strong an alliance. I think it requisite,
then, if we are to escape the assailants you speak of, that we should define
for them whom we mean by the philosophers, who we dare to say ought to be
our rulers. When these are clearly discriminated it will be possible to
defend ourselves by showing that to them by their very nature belong the
study of philosophy
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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