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“And least so the royal
and orderly?” “Yes.” “Then the
tyrant's place, I think, will be fixed at the furthest remove1 from true and proper
pleasure, and the king's at the least.”
“Necessarily.” “Then the tyrant's life will be
least pleasurable and the king's most.” “There is every
necessity of that.” “Do you know, then,” said
I, “how much less pleasurably the tyrant lives than the
king?” “I’ll know if you tell me,2” he said. “There being
as it appears three pleasures, one genuine and two spurious,
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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