"What about oligarchic cities? Don't you see beggars in them? Almost everyone except the rulers is a beggar there."
— Oligarchy

January 1, 1970

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Plato, Socrates and Adeimantus in The Republic, 552d, G. Grube and C. Reeve, trans., Plato: Complete Works (1997), p. 1164.