The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Happiness of the State
Our aim in founding the state was not disproportionate happiness of any one class, but the greatest happiness of the whole. We thought that in a state which is ordered with a view to the good of the whole, we should be most likely to find justice. In this way we might make every class happy, and then, as you imagine, the whole state would be happy. For we too can clothe our husbandmen in royal apparel, and set crowns of gold on their heads, and bid them till the ground as much as they like, and no more. Our potters also might be allowed to repose on couches and feast by the fireside, passing round the wine cup
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