[556b]
the pursuit of wealth
would be less shameless in the state and fewer of the evils of which we
spoke just now would grow up there.” “Much
fewer,” he said. “But as it is, and for all these
reasons, this is the plight to which the rulers in the state reduce their
subjects, and as for themselves and their off-spring, do they not make the
young spoiled1 wantons averse to toil of
body and mind,
1 Cf. What Plato Said, p. 483, on Laches 179 D, and Aristot.Pol. 1310 a 23.
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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