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 1      I, V    |     there are many kinds both of rulers and subjects (and that rule
 2     II, V    |        the persons whom he makes rulers must be the same is evident;
 3     II, VI   |          class of counselors and rulers of the state. But Socrates
 4     II, VI   |         does not tell us how the rulers differ from their subjects;
 5     II, VII  |          too democratic, for the rulers no longer had the prescribed
 6     II, VIII |     errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the
 7     II, IX   |       whether women rule, or the rulers are ruled by women? The
 8     II, XI   |           for they are virtually rulers both before and after they
 9    III, VI   |       One might imagine that the rulers, being sickly, were only
10    III, VI   |         only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted
11    III, VII  |       called, either because the rulers are the best men, or because
12    III, VIII |         men of property, are the rulers. And here arises the first
13    III, VIII |        many and the poor are the rulers—there will still be a difficulty.
14    III, X    |        the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like
15    III, XVI  |    passion perverts the minds of rulers, even when they are the
16    III, XVIII|     together in virtue, and both rulers and subjects are fitted,
17     IV, IV   | government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which
18     IV, IV   |       state cannot exist without rulers. And therefore some must
19     IV, VI   |         father. When, again, the rulers have great wealth and numerous
20     IV, X    |         despotic power; despotic rulers were also elected in ancient
21     IV, XII  |        with the poor against the rulers. For neither of them will
22      V, IV   |  important when they concern the rulers, as was the case of old
23      V, VI   |        thieving quarrel with the rulers. But an oligarchy which
24      V, VI   |          for there, although the rulers are few in number, they
25      V, VII  |        they are as good as their rulers. Thus at Lacedaemon the
26      V, VIII |      government, but because the rulers are on good terms both with
27      V, VIII |      them is to think that their rulers are stealing the public
28     VI, II   |       and should not be the only rulers, but that all should rule
29     VI, V    |          should not regard their rulers as enemies.~Now, since in
30     VI, VII  |          the privileges of their rulers when they see that they
31    VII, II   |         as much by statesmen and rulers as by private individuals.
32    VII, XIV  | political society is composed of rulers and subjects let us consider
33    VII, XIV  |     which is for the sake of the rulers and another rule which is
34    VII, XVII |      which are indecent. Let the rulers take care that there be