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But my country’, he says, ‘will receive no help from me, so far as I can<br>offer it.’ Here again, what kind of help do you mean? It won’t acquire any<br>arcades or baths through your good offices. And what of that? For it doesn’t<br>acquire shoes either through the good offices of a blacksmith, or arms<br>through those of a cobbler; it is enough that each person fulfils his own<br>function. And if you provide your country with another citizen who is<br>trustworthy and self-respecting, would you bring it no benefit? ‘Indeed I<br>would.’ Well then, in that case you wouldn’t be of no use to it. ‘What place<br>shall I hold in the state, then?’, he asks. Whatever place you can hold while<br>maintaining your trustworthiness and self-respect. 5. But if, out of a wish to<br>help the state, you sacrifice those qualities, what use could you be to it, when<br>you’ve turned out to be shameless and untrustworthy?
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