Dialogue

 1 Intro|         and is continued by the state when they pass out of the
 2  Prot| opposite cloister on a chair of state, and around him were seated
 3  Prot|      best in the affairs of the state.~Do I understand you, I
 4  Prot|        question is an affair of state, then everybody is free
 5  Prot|        only is this true of the state, but of individuals; the
 6  Prot|       for he is a plague of the state.’~And this is the reason,
 7  Prot|     have done with masters, the state again compels them to learn
 8  Prot|      saying, the existence of a state implies that virtue is not
 9  Prot| condition of the existence of a state. Suppose that there could
10  Prot|  Suppose that there could be no state unless we were all flute-players,
11  Prot|       good, to remain in a good state and be good, as you, Pittacus,
12  Prot|        moderate or intermediate state.~(‘I do not hope’ he says, ‘
13  Prot|       from nature and a healthy state of the body. And in like
14  Prot|     from nature and the healthy state of the soul.~I said: You
15  Prot|         us what you call such a state:—if we had immediately and