如同健康人受知识和理性支配一样，正直的社会必须要在这个社会里最具教养和学识的头脑，也就是那些“爱智慧者”的控制之下。

As a just and healthy person is governed by knowledge and reason, a just society must be under the control of society's most cultivated and best informed minds, its "lovers of wisdom."

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But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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