This is the quality that Socrates regards as being possessed by every great political leader and statesman, but it is also clearly a quality possessed by every tyrant.

这是苏格拉底认为,每一位伟大政治领袖及政治家所,共同拥有的特质，但也明显是,每一位暴君所拥有的特质。

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It is also a virtue of great statesmen.

那也是伟大政治家的一项美德。

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Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.

但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。

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