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You are right, Stranger: that is what we must do.Athenian
Yes, for resentment would ill become men of our years.Clinias
Ill indeed.Athenian
Whether men are right or wrong in their censures of the Laconian polity and the Cretan—that is another story; anyhow, what is actually said by most men I, probably, am in a better position to state than either of you. For in your case (your laws being wisely framed) one of the best of your laws will be that which enjoins that none of the youth shall inquire which laws are wrong
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