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1 1 | Yes.~Cleinias. You are quite right in asking the question,
2 1 | for the present. But I now quite understand your meaning
3 1 | is most true.~Megillus. Quite excellent, in my opinion,
4 1 | But we should like to be quite sure that we are speaking
5 1 | no difficulty in replying quite truly, that war is of two
6 1 | exposition; for you were quite right in beginning with
7 1 | says.~Cleinias. You are quite right, Athenian Stranger,
8 1 | the time, you seem to me quite to have hit the meaning
9 1 | the Spartan lawgiver was quite right in forbidding pleasure.
10 1 | true, Stranger; and I see quite clearly the advantage of
11 1 | spoken; the common saying is quite true, that a good Athenian
12 1 | Athenian. You seem to be quite ready to listen; and I am
13 1 | are not.~Cleinias. You are quite right.~Athenian. Let me
14 1 | Is not the effect of this quite the opposite of the effect
15 2 | Stranger, that you are quite right in all that you have
16 2 | Cleinias. That is surely quite unreasonable, and is not
17 2 | happy.~Cleinias. That is quite true.~Athenian. Once more:
18 2 | was the third.~Cleinias. I quite remember.~Athenian. Thus
19 2 | other whatever.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Do we not
20 2 | and all mankind.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Were we
21 2 | gymnastic.~Cleinias. You quite understand me; do as you
22 3 | your meaning, and you are quite right.~Athenian. But, as
23 3 | described them.~Cleinias. That quite accords with my views, and
24 3 | rather Ionian, and he seems quite to confirm what you are
25 3 | their states?~Megillus. Quite true.~Athenian. And would
26 3 | and this we affirm to be quite just.~Cleinias. Certainly.~
27 3 | gold and silver.~Megillus. Quite true.~Athenian. And now
28 3 | Your words, Athenian, are quite true, and worthy of yourself
29 4 | injurious. You see that he quite knew triremes on the sea,
30 4 | about that.~Athenian. I quite agree with you; and therefore
31 4 | in every state?~Cleinias. Quite so.~Athenian. Then let me
32 5 | often repeated, and are quite as useful; a man should
33 5 | although the owner of them may quite well be a rogue. And if
34 5 | about money may be easy and quite simple.~The next thing to
35 5 | divine he makes progress quite beyond his natural powers.
36 6 | all particulars, will be quite sufficient; and if the legislator
37 6 | general outline.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. The temples
38 7 | virtue in the soul.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Further,
39 7 | other animal.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Do not nurses,
40 7 | we not a little while ago quite convinced that no silver
41 7 | the poets are not always quite capable of knowing what
42 7 | very fitting.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. But to honour
43 7 | this very question, and quite rightly, too.~Cleinias.
44 7 | enactments?~Athenian. That is quite true; and you mean to imply,
45 7 | they appear to me to be quite like a poem. When I reflected
46 7 | attend to them?~Cleinias. I quite agree.~Athenian. Of wrestling
47 7 | pigs than men, and I am quite ashamed, not only of myself,
48 7 | one in some way?~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. But if they
49 7 | better language, then I quite agree with you that such
50 8 | as I am ready to maintain quite seriously. Moreover, those
51 8 | a few.~Cleinias. We are quite agreed, Stranger, that we
52 8 | are two causes, which are quite enough to account for the
53 8 | must confess that they are quite against us. For if any one
54 9 | Cleinias. They would be quite right.~Athenian. Perhaps;
55 9 | alternatives, the one is quite intolerable—not to speak
56 9 | involuntary hurts of all men are quite as many and as great as
57 9 | consider whether I am right or quite wrong in what I am going
58 9 | nature of the just—this is quite the noblest work of law.
59 9 | and a penalty. He knows quite well that to such men themselves
60 9 | in all things.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. A man may
61 9 | anger and fear.~Cleinias. Quite right.~Athenian. There was
62 10| is excellent.~Athenian. Quite true, Megillus and Cleinias,
63 10| otherwise.~Cleinias. You are quite right.~Athenian. Shall we,
64 10| of motion, that was not quite correct.~Cleinias. What
65 10| Cleinias. Very true, and I quite agree.~Athenian. Or, to
66 10| other is second.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. At this
67 10| two equal parts.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. And what
68 10| Gods.~Cleinias. Certainly—quite enough, Stranger.~Athenian.
69 10| is injustice.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. What else
70 11| intended to do any harm, but quite the contrary; for is not
71 11| because they seem to be quite necessary in a state—about
72 12| people who meet one another quite unconcernedly at the public
73 12| generality of cities are quite right in exhorting us to
74 12| price, and who spring up quite as much in ill–ordered as
75 12| the bodies of the dead are quite rightly said to be our shades
76 12| your suggestion, and am quite of the same mind with you.~
77 12| salvation of all.~Cleinias. Yes, Quite so.~Athenian. Yes, indeed;
78 12| say?~Cleinias. I am not quite certain, Stranger; but I
79 12| all our aims.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Then now
80 12| of four kinds?~Athenian. Quite true.~Cleinias. And that
81 12| that is, virtue.~Cleinias. Quite so.~Athenian. There is no
82 12| beasts also participate, and quite young children—I mean courage;
83 12| let us, first of all, be quite agreed with one another
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