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 1 1 |     long discourse out of very small materials. For drinking
 2 2 |       means.~Athenian. If very small children are to determine
 3 2 |      he be great and strong or small and weak, and whether he
 4 3 |   would only be hill shepherds—small sparks of the human race
 5 3 |       as I was saying, of that small part of them which existed
 6 3 |       cities, whether great or small; and similarly in families?
 7 3 |      True.~Athenian. There was small credit to us, Cleinias,
 8 3 |     that they can gain ever so small an advantage for themselves,
 9 4 |  ruling element is numerically small, and at the same time very
10 4 |       requiring that all laws, small and great alike, should
11 5 |     her glory and honour for a small piece of gold; but all the
12 5 |     the clements of either are small and few and feeble, and
13 5 |    place, do not disparage the small and modest proportions of
14 6 |        the five wardens decide small matters on their own authority;
15 6 |        or has any way great or small by which he can teach a
16 6 |      whatever number, large or small, and at whatever time the
17 7 |       transgressing the law in small matters. The result is that
18 7 |      nothing, whether great or small, of what are called laws
19 7 |        which is far from being small or insignificant, but is
20 8 |        In the next place, many small injuries done by neighbours
21 8 |       sojourner’s tax, however small, except good conduct, nor
22 9 |       a hurt, whether great or small, is not an injury at all;
23 9 |     one commits any injustice, small or great, the law will admonish
24 9 | himself decide about, of them, small or great, is next to impossible.~
25 10|   better. It is a matter of no small consequence, in some way
26 10|       such criminal means from small beginnings attaining to
27 10|        the Gods care about the small as well as about the great.
28 10|   great matters and no care of small ones? Reflect; he who acts
29 10|        that the neglect of the small matters is of no consequence
30 10|       to these things great or small, which a God or some inferior
31 10|      that they have no care of small matters: there are three
32 10|       are to the Gods great or small—in either case it would
33 10|      in seeing and hearing the small than the great, but more
34 10|   class, if they neglected the small and regarded only the great;—
35 10|       and perfect their works, small as well as great, by one
36 10|       of you. If you say:—I am small and will creep into the
37 10|      to heaven, you are not so small or so high but that you
38 10|       and evil deeds, and from small beginnings had grown great,
39 11| legislators, and takes up, not small matter which he has not
40 11|   equally to matters great and small:—If a man happens to leave
41 11|  Cleinias, the class of men is small—they must have been rarely
42 12|     men, is that in return for small sacrifice and a few flattering
43 12|    such spots, either large or small, but they shall occupy that
44 12|        Cleinias. It will be no small matter if we can only discover