Socrates (S) : All right. So the Guardians will be the best citizens?
Glaucon(G) : Far the best.
S: Then won't the women Guardians be the best women?
G: Much the best again.
S: And is there anything better for a state than to produce men and women of the best possible kind?
G: No.
S: But that is the result of the eduction of body and mind which we have described.
G: Of course it is.
S: So the arrangements we proposed are not only possible but also the best our state could have.
G: Yes.
S: Our women Guardians must strip for exercise, then-their excellence(virtue) will be all the clothes they need. They must play their part in war and in all other duties of a Guardians, which will be their sole occupation; only, as they are the weaker sex, we must given them a lighter share of these duities than men. And any man who laughs at women who, for these excellent reason, exercise themselves naked is, as Pindar says, "picking the unripe fruit of laughter"-he does not know what he is laughing at or what he is doing. For it is and will always be the best of sayings that what benefits us is fair, what harms us shameful.
G: I agree entirely.
I agerr ,too. :D
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