The quality that I am attempting to describe is that special understanding of public life which successful statesmen have whether they are wicked or virtuous.

是对公共生活有特别的了解,而那正是,成功政治家们所共有的特质,无论他们是从邪念或善念出发。

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Doing anything you like, it seems to be the opposite of the platonic understanding of justice as each one doing a special function ? or fulfilling or doing a special craft.

做你爱做的事，这似乎有别于,柏拉图所理解的正义,不是要每个人都拥有一样,特殊的功用或善尽或发挥一种特殊技能吗。

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