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as though politics and I were a fit match.
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I was very young then and it is not surprising that I felt as I did.
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I thought that the city was then living a kind of life
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which was unjust and that they would bend it to a just one
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and so administer it more justly.
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So I eagerly watched to see what they would do.
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And you must know, as I looked on, I saw those men
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in a short time make the former democracy look like a golden age."
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He is referring to his relatives, men like Critias and Charmides,
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who turned Athenian politics into a tyranny and, which he says,
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makes the "democracy look like a golden age."
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Let me continue in Plato's words. "I looked at this,