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Assuming that we ourselves are the impartial judge for whom we

seek, let us begin by comparing the individual and State, and ask

first of all, whether the State is likely to be free or

enslaved-Will there not be a little freedom and a great deal of

slavery? And the freedom is of the bad, and the slavery of the

good; and this applies to the man as well as to the State; for

his soul is full of meanness and slavery, and the better part is

enslaved to the worse. He cannot do what he would, and his mind

is full of confusion; he is the very reverse of a freeman. The

State will be poor and full of misery and sorrow; and the man's

soul will also be poor and full of sorrows, and he will be the

most miserable of men. No, not the most miserable, for there is

yet a more miserable. 'Who is that?' The tyrannical man who has

the misfortune also to become a public tyrant. 'There I suspect

that you are right.' Say rather, 'I am sure;' conjecture is out

of place in an enquiry of this nature.