The Republic · Rep. 374d–374e

And the higher the duties of the guardian, I said, the more time, and skill, and art, and application will be needed by him?

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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