The Republic · Rep. 576b

Let us then sum up in a word, I said, the character of the worst man: he is the waking reality of what we dreamed.

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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