THE REPUBLIC OF PLATO - Studyplace

t. 3431 RULING AS AN ART 25
Because she lets you go about sniffling like a child whose nose
wants wiping. She hasn't even taught you to know a shepherd
when you see one, or his sheep either.
What makes you say that
Why, you imagine that a herdsman studies the interests of his
flocks or cattle, tending and fattening them up with some other
end in view than his master's profit or his own; and so you don't
see that, in politics, the genuine ruler regards his subjects exactly
like sheep, and thinks of nothing else, night and day, but the good
he can get out of them for himself. You are so far out in your
notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, as not to know
that 'right' actually means what is good for someone else, and to be