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1 1 | teach what is the good and evil of the condition of each.
2 1 | refrain from all things evil, the sweet feeling of pleasure
3 1 | yet they are a source of evil in civil troubles; as is
4 1 | saved from doing some great evil.~Cleinias. It will be by
5 1 | objects, and would suffer more evil than they inflicted. At
6 1 | reflection about the good or evil of them, and this, when
7 1 | is the fear of expected evil.~Cleinias. Yes.~Athenian.
8 1 | there is the fear of an evil reputation; we are afraid
9 1 | afraid of being thought evil, because we do or say some
10 1 | deems to be a very great evil both to individuals and
11 2 | delight in good or hatred of evil; or he who is incorrect
12 2 | and is offended at what is evil?~Cleinias. There is a great
13 2 | And what greater good or evil can any destiny ever make
14 2 | truly good to the good, but evil to the evil. Let me ask
15 2 | the good, but evil to the evil. Let me ask again, Are you
16 2 | Certainly.~Athenian. And an evil life too?~Cleinias. I am
17 2 | doing wrong is pleasant, but evil and base?~Cleinias. Impossible.~
18 2 | contemplated by the unjust and evil man appears pleasant and
19 2 | greatest injury by welcoming evil dispositions, and the mistake
20 3 | their transitions to good or evil?~Cleinias. What do you mean?~
21 3 | nothing of all the good and evil of cities could have attained
22 3 | were told about good and evil, they in their simplicity
23 3 | besiegers were falling into an evil plight. Their youth revolted;
24 3 | knows to be unrighteous and evil. This disagreement between
25 3 | difficulty in telling, after the evil has happened; but to have
26 3 | the reason is rather the evil life which is generally
27 3 | instead of an aristocracy, an evil sort of theatrocracy has
28 3 | shamelessness, which is so evil a thing, but the insolent
29 4 | citizens. You may learn the evil of such a practice from
30 4 | of fighting men, to be an evil;—lions might be trained
31 4 | insatiable disorder; and this evil spirit, having first trampled
32 4 | these laws is punished as an evil–doer by the legislator,
33 5 | is a divine good, and no evil thing is honourable; and
34 5 | her, and fills her full of evil and remorse; or when he
35 5 | that the world below is all evil, he yields to her, and does
36 5 | below, instead of being evil, may be the greatest of
37 5 | not estimate the base and evil, the good and noble, according
38 5 | the greatest penalty of evil–doing—namely, to grow into
39 5 | most inclined to avoid the evil, and track out and find
40 5 | actions of those who do evil, but whose evil is curable,
41 5 | those who do evil, but whose evil is curable, in the first
42 5 | of reformation and wholly evil, the vials of our wrath
43 5 | purity attained. Touching evil men, who want to join and
44 5 | stigmas, or we may meet the evil by the elder men giving
45 5 | the habit of craft, which evil tendency may be observed
46 5 | bodies of men for good or evil, but produces similar results
47 6 | greatest political injury and evil will accrue from them.~Cleinias.
48 6 | the city, and healing the evil. Wherefore, also, this which
49 6 | fortifications keep off the evil–disposed, in order to prevent
50 7 | and dissimilar:—this is an evil in states; for by reason
51 7 | which springs out of an evil habit of the soul. And when
52 7 | truly say that no greater evil can happen in a state; for
53 7 | tell how great I deem the evil to be?~Cleinias. You mean
54 7 | Cleinias. You mean the evil of blaming antiquity in
55 7 | change whatever except from evil is the most dangerous of
56 7 | are imitations of good and evil characters in men? What
57 7 | inspire despondency and evil omens and forebodings in
58 7 | should avoid every word of evil omen; let that kind of song
59 7 | do not by mistake ask for evil instead of good. To make
60 7 | knowing what is good or evil? And if one of them utters
61 7 | so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the
62 8 | a life of peace, but if evil, a life of war within and
63 8 | which is a far greater evil to the state than the loss
64 8 | consecrate the tradition of their evil character among all, slaves
65 8 | public courts and have the evil–doer punished. But if any
66 9 | stranger, shall have his evil deed engraven on his face
67 9 | inflicts is designed for evil, but always makes him who
68 9 | manfully escaped out of evil into good. None of them
69 9 | other poets to lay down evil precepts in their writings
70 9 | which is like a greater evil should be punished more
71 9 | that which is like a less evil should be punished less
72 9 | inform of some base and evil deeds of his own, or for
73 9 | there is a very serious evil, which affects the whole
74 9 | hindered from plunging into evil. These are the persons who
75 10| the lawgiver do when this evil is of long standing? should
76 10| is the cause of good and evil, base and honourable, just
77 10| of good, and the other of evil.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
78 10| and irregularly, then the evil soul guides it.~Cleinias.
79 10| them. But the fortunes of evil and unrighteous men in private
80 10| Now, that your present evil opinion may not grow to
81 10| which may conjure away the evil before it arrives, we will
82 10| designed to profit men, and the evil to harm them—he, seeing
83 10| of good and the defeat of evil in the whole. And he contrived
84 10| receives more of good or evil from her own energy and
85 10| when she has communion with evil, then she also changes the
86 10| who had done unholy and evil deeds, and from small beginnings
87 10| termed dishonesty, is an evil of the same kind as what
88 10| because I am zealous against evil men; and I will tell dear
89 10| and not from malice or an evil nature, be placed by the
90 11| yet partially, cure the evil by legislation. To effect
91 11| matter and punish youthful evil–doers with stripes and bonds
92 11| rate abate much of their evil–doing. Having an eye to
93 11| kinds, which originate in an evil and passionate temperament,
94 11| cases:—No one shall speak evil of another; and when a man
95 11| by the entertainment of evil thoughts, and exacerbating
96 11| which is another great evil; and if he do not, let him
97 11| name of art has come an evil reputation. In the first
98 12| greater and more serious evil from the lesser. And a distinction
99 12| reward of good, but not of evil deeds”; for to know which
100 12| abstinence from words of evil omen and the reverse, and
101 12| unrighteousness, as far as their evil minds can be healed, but
102 12| learn and know or whose evil actions require to be punished
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