The Republic · Rep. 558c

Consider now, I said, what manner of man the individual is, or rather consider, as in the case of the State, how he comes into being.

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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