In order for a more or less round plate to remind me of roundness, Plato says, I have to have already met perfect roundness itself.

如果一个或多或少,有点圆的盘子能让我想到正圆,柏拉图认为,我必须已经见过完美的圆本身了

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We bump into societies that may be more or less just, or individuals who may be more or less just, but we never bump into justice itself.

我们可能遇见或多或少有点正义的社会,或多或少有点正义的个人,但是我们决不会撞见正义本身

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