For the city, you see, no longer lived in the fashion and ways of our fathers.

现时的城邦生活,已不再像是上一代的运作方式。

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Unless the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings, genuinely philosophize, there will be no rest from the ills for the cities, ?! he says, right?

除非让哲学家为王统治,或现时为王者，真诚地开始哲思，不然城市中的苦恼将永不止息，他这么强调，对吧？

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