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A reason to turn the page

Wives, children, education all held in common—if everything intimate is shared, who truly rules and who loses themselves?

Discovery 13 of 15

And so, Glaucon, we have arrived at the conclusion that in the perfect State wives and children are to be in common; and that all education and the pursuits of war and peace are also to be common, and the best philosophers and the bravest warriors are to be their kings?