a democracy that produced Socrates and allowed him to philosophize freely until his seventieth year.

毕竟是民主哺育了苏格拉底,并允许他自由地进行哲思,直到他七十岁为止。

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And he surely would not be allowed to philosophize in many cities and countries today.

可以肯定的是他不会被允许,在现今许多城市及国家中进行哲思。

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To philosophize is to learn how to die.

进行哲学讨论就是学习如何去死。

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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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