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Book IV.
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Adeimantus said: ‘Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that you make your citizens miserable1, and this by their own free-will; they are the lords of the city, and yet instead of having, like other men, lands and houses and money of their own, they live as mercenaries and are always mounting guard.’ You may add, I replied, that they receive no pay but only their food, and have no money to spend on a journey or a mistress. ‘Well, and what answer do you give?’ My answer is, that our guardians2 may or may not be the happiest of men — I should not be surprised to find in the long-run that they were — but this is not the aim of our constitution, which was designed for the good of the whole and not of any one part. If I went to a sculptor4 and blamed him for having painted the eye, which is the noblest feature of the face, not purple but black, he would reply: ‘The eye must be an eye, and you should look at the statue as a whole.’ ‘Now I can well imagine a fool’s paradise, in which everybody is eating and drinking, clothed in purple and fine linen5, and potters lie on sofas and have their wheel at hand, that they may work a little when they please; and cobblers and all the other classes of a State lose their distinctive6 character. And a State may get on without cobblers; but when the guardians degenerate7 into boon8 companions, then the ruin is complete. Remember that we are not talking of peasants keeping holiday, but of a State in which every man is expected to do his own work. The happiness resides not in this or that class, but in the State as a whole. I have another remark to make:— A middle condition is best for artisans; they should have money enough to buy tools, and not enough to be independent of business. And will not the same condition be best for our citizens? If they are poor, they will be mean; if rich, luxurious
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sculptor
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warriors
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warrior
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virtues
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dwellers
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| 强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 ); 志向; 发送气音; 发 h 音 | |
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