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Plato's Idea of an Ideal City
Plato's idea of what an ideal city is starts at the beginning of the republic, one of his treatises. The biggest problem he saw was with the leadership that's typically elected to office. He finishes by saying that a man who acts morally always ends up worse off than a guy who acts immorally. Or, to put it in modern terms, nice guys finish last.