Book 7
1333a
Hence their education also is bound to be in one way the same and in another different. For he who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled, as the saying isThe sentence here breaks off into a long parenthesis, after which it is not resumed. (and government, as has been said in the first discourses,Book 3.6.6-12, 1278b 30 ff. is of two sorts, one carried on for the sake of the ruler and the other for the sake of the subject; of these the former is what we call the rule of a master,the latter is the government of free men . . .One sentence or more has been lost here. But some of the commands given differ not in nature of the services commanded but in their object. Hence a number of what are thought to be menial services can be honorably performed even by freemen in youth; since in regard to honor and dishonor actions do not differ so much in themselves as in their end and object). But since we say that the goodness of a citizenPerhaps the Greek should be altered to give of the best citizen. and ruler are the same as that of the best man, and that the same person ought to become a subject first and a ruler afterwards, it will be important for the legislator to study how and by what courses of training good men are to be produced, and what is the end of the best life.
