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 1 1 |            as to conquer all other states in war: am I right in supposing
 2 1 |         you say applicable only to states, or also to villages?~Cleinias.
 3 1 |        principle, and above all in states; and the state in which
 4 1 |    opposite of these; in all these states he should determine and
 5 1 |         have you in either of your states which give a taste of pleasures,
 6 1 |           Stranger, with regard to states, in making words and facts
 7 1 |            true also of most other states which especially cultivate
 8 1 |         pleasure and pain, both in states and in individuals: these
 9 1 |          of individuals as well as states; and he who indulges in
10 1 | institutions. For when the greater states conquer and enslave the
11 1 |           the best way possible in states, and that some one blames
12 1 |        which either individuals or states gain from the good management
13 1 |        with herself and with other states. In this way virtue and
14 1 |         both to individuals and to states.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian.
15 2 |         poets generally compose in States at the present day? As far
16 2 |           either in individuals or states.~Cleinias. Once more, Stranger,
17 3 |         may behold the progress of states and their transitions to
18 3 |        Athenian. And were not such states composed of men who had
19 3 |            Athenian. And the three states to whom these laws were
20 3 |       Athenian. That the other two states were always to come to the
21 3 |             or what settlements of states are greater or more famous?~
22 3 |         the constitutions of their states?~Megillus. Quite true.~Athenian.
23 3 |          likely to think that such states would be firmly and lastingly
24 3 |     endeavour to implant wisdom in states, and banish ignorance to
25 3 |       whether in individuals or in states. You will understand, Stranger,
26 3 |          be rulers and subjects in states?~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
27 3 |            are two mother forms of states from which the rest may
28 3 |      observes moderation; but your states, the Laconian and Cretan,
29 3 |          undue award of honours in states.~Megillus. What is it?~Athenian.
30 4 |      settlement and legislation of states.~Cleinias. The best by far.~
31 4 |          population in the several states is too numerous for the
32 4 |            and easier way in which states change their laws than when
33 4 |      really have polities, but the states of which we were just now
34 4 |            polities at all. But if states are to be named after their
35 4 |           best–ordered of existing states is a copy.~Cleinias. It
36 4 |            times without number in states—~Cleinias. What thing?~Athenian.
37 4 |           good of the whole state. States which have such laws are
38 4 |         two classes of patients in states, slaves and freemen; and
39 4 |          by making regulations for states about births?~Cleinias.
40 4 |          He will.~Athenian. In all states the birth of children goes
41 5 |            opposites; but the mean states of all these habits are
42 5 |        hatreds and divisions among states and individuals; and the
43 5 |         increases the greatness of states—he himself contends in the
44 5 |           to hold great offices in states, should be distinguished
45 5 |     territory and the neighbouring states. The territory must be sufficient
46 5 |      instance, let us speak of the states which are respectively first,
47 6 |          precedence over the other states, they should, in common
48 6 |            good to individuals and states. For it gives to the greater
49 6 |         ever the true principle of states, at which we ought to aim,
50 6 |          hence there arise in most states the very results which we
51 6 |          mischiefs which happen in states having many slaves who speak
52 6 |          for the public conduct of states, while he leaves the private
53 6 |  constitutions and destructions of states, and all sorts of pursuits
54 7 |     dissimilar:—this is an evil in states; for by reason of their
55 7 |        that masters and freemen in states, when they hear of it, are
56 7 |            are beneficial alike to states and to private houses. But
57 7 |            Athenian. I say that in states generally no one has observed
58 7 |            a greater injury to all states than saying or thinking
59 7 |            of blaming antiquity in states?~Athenian. Exactly.~Cleinias.
60 7 |           the greatest of evils to states. Changes in bodily fashions
61 7 |          contrary to the custom of states; still, in saying that the
62 7 |     rightly formed. Magistrates in states who keep awake at night
63 8 |          sort hardly ever exist in states, at least not to any extent
64 8 |           the causes which prevent states from pursuing in an efficient
65 8 |           they may be truly called states of discord, in which while
66 8 |            with the custom of your states. Further, they are repugnant
67 8 |            only be realized in all states, and, God willing, in the
68 9 |          ever perpetrated in other states, and that we must legislate
69 9 |       consider whether the laws of states ought not to have the character
70 9 |            one another? For in all states and by all legislators whatsoever,
71 9 |      whatever part of human nature states or individuals may suppose
72 9 |            should be spoken in all states—namely, that riches are
73 9 |       there would be no murders in states requiring to be purged away
74 9 |           prevention of murders in states. But who these Gods are,
75 9 |         regulated and ill–educated states, and may perhaps occur even
76 9 |         public good binds together states, but private only distracts
77 9 |          well of individuals as of states is greater when the state
78 10|            art, and by the laws of states, which are different in
79 10|            men to the ruin both of states and families!~Athenian.
80 10|   individuals and whole houses and states for the sake of money—let
81 11|           work. Wherefore, in free states the man of art ought not
82 12|    preservation and dissolution of states. For if the examiners are
83 12|       novelties to strangers. When states are well governed by good
84 12|         other hand, the refusal of states to receive others, and for
85 12|          the institutions of other states are inferior to their own.
86 12|          is rich and rare in other states, or himself to show something
87 12|       offices, exist in many other states. Many very respectable institutions
88 12|         own as compared with other states, they have been partly mentioned
89 12|            is nothing wonderful in states going astray—the reason
90 12|        free and the lords of other states; but the wisest men, as