I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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