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Plato's "Republic" and the excerpts from Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics' and "Politics" in the Cahn anthology and Gutek's chapters on Plato, Aristotle, and Quintilian. The "Republic of Plato" is the longest of his works except for the Laws, and is unquestionably the best of them. There are closer ways to deal with cutting edge power in the “Philebus” and in the Sophist; the Politics or Statesman is more perfect; the structure and establishments of the State are all the more unmistakably attracted out the Laws; as center pieces, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher magnificence.