The world dissolves. So corruption and injustice and lawlessness and violence inevitably bring about destruction.

世界将被毁灭，而人类的堕落，目无法纪,暴力成性，势必会带来这种毁灭。

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What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

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The breaking of so much as a single law constitutes the essence of anarchy, constitutes the essence of lawlessness, it is a far-reaching argument for obedience to the law.

只要违反一条法律,即可构成失序的本体，混乱的本体，这是一个深远的申论,关于服从法律。

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