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[510c] and could never become a friend to him with all his heart?

Callicles
That is so.

Socrates
Nor a friend to anyone who was much inferior to him either; for the despot would despise him and never show him the attention due to a friend.

Callicles
That is true also.

Socrates
Then the only friend of any account that remains for such a person is a man of his own temper, who blames and praises the same things, and is thus willing to be governed by him and to be subject to his rule. He is a man who will have great power in that state;


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