The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Gentlemen Who Are Not in Your Good Graces
"I see nothing charming and going into a passion with a man who tells you what is right," he said. "If God will only preserve to them the laws which we have given them, they will go on forever making and bending their laws and their lives in the hope of attaining perfection." He added that some states are as bad as the men whom I was describing. But do you not admire coolness and dexterity of these ready ministers of political corruption? Yes, he said, I do, but not for all of them.
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