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 1 1 |        occurring, every one would wish to be quit of as soon as
 2 2 |          O my father, did you not wish me to live as happily as
 3 3 |          true.~Athenian. I should wish you to understand that what
 4 3 |           things according to his wish, for his wish may be at
 5 3 |    according to his wish, for his wish may be at variance with
 6 3 |         and wisdom and freedom, I wish that you would tell me at
 7 3 |          of that day. And I would wish you and Cleinias to consider
 8 3 | themselves.~Megillus. True; but I wish that you would give us a
 9 4 |          that?~Athenian. I should wish the citizens to be as readily
10 5 |         but for pain; and we also wish for less pain and greater
11 5 |        and greater pain we do not wish for; and an equal balance
12 5 |     necessary order of things, we wish for that life in which there
13 5 |         are in excess, and do not wish for that in which the opposites
14 5 |         exceed; nor, again, do we wish for that in which the clements
15 5 |          nature desire. And if we wish for any others, I say that
16 7 |       spoke. Let us grant, if you wish, that the human race is
17 7 |         then, what you would next wish to say.~Athenian. I should
18 7 |           say.~Athenian. I should wish to say, Cleinias, as I said
19 8 |       rather clear that we should wish to have in the state the
20 9 |       will endeavour to do as you wish:—Concerning the soul, thus
21 10|         more to say; and I should wish to say of them only what
22 10|      opinion of many.~Cleinias. I wish that you would speak plainer.~
23 11|     feeling of pride, and he will wish to look higher. And there
24 11|      enact that they may, if they wish, lawfully renounce their
25 12|       little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but
26 12|         very good Stranger; but I wish you would tell me more clearly
27 12|         will preserve all that we wish to preserve.~Cleinias. What