Dialogue

  1 Repub|          age were the cause, I too, being old, and every other old
  2 Repub|             that which he inherited being much what I possess now;
  3 Repub|            ruler, is unerring, and, being unerring, always commands
  4 Repub|              as you were saying, he being the superior, it is just
  5 Repub|              which is very far from being their own. Consider further,
  6 Repub|          say, the true rulers, like being in authority. ~Think! Nay,
  7 Repub|            name of thieves. And not being ambitious they do not care
  8 Repub|    recounting all the advantages of being just, and he answers and
  9 Repub|             experience of both, not being able to avoid the one and
 10 Repub|           retaliation; and justice, being at a middle point between
 11 Repub|          thus to the hour of death; being just and seeming to be unjust.
 12 Repub|      weakness, has not the power of being unjust. And this is proved
 13 Repub|           something truly divine in being able to argue as you have
 14 Repub|        there would be an impiety in being present when justice is
 15 Repub|          mistake, hirelings, "hire" being the name which is given
 16 Repub|           at which the character is being formed and the desired impression
 17 Repub|        taking her part when she was being beaten, and all the battles
 18 Repub|            they were the better for being punished; but that those
 19 Repub|   punishment from God; but that God being good is the author of evil
 20 Repub|          ever be willing to change; being, as is supposed, the fairest
 21 Repub|           saying that deception, or being deceived or uninformed about
 22 Repub|           that the word of Phoebus, being divine and full of prophecy,
 23 Repub|            sort, that those who are being educated by us to be the
 24 Repub|          them deem that he himself, being but a man, can be dishonored
 25 Repub|             wickednesses are always being perpetrated by ~"The kindred
 26 Repub|        sweet and holy and wonderful being; but we must also inform
 27 Repub|         true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive
 28 Repub|             and medicine are always being opened; and the arts of
 29 Repub|            diseases. But Herodicus, being a trainer, and himself of
 30 Repub|             to spend in continually being ill. This we remark in the
 31 Repub|          always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant
 32 Repub|            art only to persons who, being generally of healthy constitution
 33 Repub|     nourishment, and his senses not being purged of their mists? ~
 34 Repub|             all that time they were being formed and fed in the womb
 35 Repub|           up; and so, their country being their mother and also their
 36 Repub|         taken that our auxiliaries, being stronger than our citizens,
 37 Repub|          other citizens; hating and being hated, plotting and being
 38 Repub|           being hated, plotting and being plotted against, they will
 39 Repub|        scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more
 40 Repub|          That is most certain. ~And being perfect, is therefore wise
 41 Repub|    describing is said to be wise as being good in counsel? ~Very true. ~
 42 Repub|            itself, the whole State, being thus constituted according
 43 Repub|             in the saying of "a man being his own master;" and other
 44 Repub|      Undoubtedly. ~And the citizens being thus agreed among themselves,
 45 Repub|             s own business, and not being a busybody; we said so again
 46 Repub|         doing his own work, and not being a busybody, would claim
 47 Repub|        object of desire, and thirst being a desire, will necessarily
 48 Repub|             commands; that part too being supposed to have a knowledge
 49 Repub|      business, whether in ruling or being ruled? ~Exactly so. ~Are
 50 Repub|         such as we were describing, being concerned, however, not
 51 Repub|      meaning of acting unjustly and being unjust, or, again, of acting
 52 Repub|            like disease and health; being in the soul just what disease
 53 Repub|         vice are innumerable; there being four special ones which
 54 Repub|            if they are carried out, being unusual, may appear ridiculous. ~
 55 Repub|          embryo which may come into being from seeing the light; and
 56 Repub|        friend and of another as not being his friend? ~Yes, very often. ~
 57 Repub|             of the rest of the city being divided either against them
 58 Repub|           in the flower of his age, being not only a tribute of honor
 59 Repub|          will be described by us as being at war when they fight,
 60 Repub|          disorder and discord, they being by nature friends; and such
 61 Repub|           the possibility of a city being ordered in the manner described? ~
 62 Repub|            will find many a strange being will have a title to the
 63 Repub|       points of view, that absolute being is or may be absolutely
 64 Repub|           intermediate between pure being and the absolute negation
 65 Repub|            the absolute negation of being? ~Yes, between them. ~And,
 66 Repub|           knowledge corresponded to being and ignorance of necessity
 67 Repub|           that intermediate between being and not-being there has
 68 Repub|          opinion? ~Undoubtedly. ~As being the same with knowledge,
 69 Repub|            knowledge is relative to being and knows being. But before
 70 Repub|         relative to being and knows being. But before I proceed further
 71 Repub|              how can any reasonable being ever identify that which
 72 Repub| subject-matters? ~That is certain. ~Being is the sphere or subject-matter
 73 Repub|            is to know the nature of being? ~Yes. ~And opinion is to
 74 Repub|        cannot be the same. ~Then if being is the subject-matter of
 75 Repub|           necessary correlative; of being, knowledge? ~True, he said. ~
 76 Repub|           not concerned either with being or with not-being? ~Not
 77 Repub|           the interval between pure being and absolute not-being;
 78 Repub|            equally of the nature of being and not-being, and cannot
 79 Repub|           of the mean. ~True. ~This being premised, I would ask the
 80 Repub|             in your mind, either as being or not-being, or both, or
 81 Repub|           better place than between being and not-being? For they
 82 Repub|            light and existence than being. ~That is quite true, he
 83 Repub|             is halfway between pure being and pure not-being? ~We
 84 Repub|             as matter of knowledge; being the intermediate flux which
 85 Repub|           the knowledge of the true being of each thing, and who have
 86 Repub|             are others who, besides being their equals in experience
 87 Repub|         they are lovers of all true being; there is no part whether
 88 Repub|       spontaneously toward the true being of everything. ~Certainly. ~
 89 Repub|            perfect participation of being? ~They are absolutely necessary,
 90 Repub|      becoming incorporate with very being, having begotten mind and
 91 Repub|        praise some things which are being said or done, and blame
 92 Repub|           be rare at any time; this being the class out of which come
 93 Repub|         philosophy; those who do so being probably the cleverest hands
 94 Repub|          natural unity. But a human being who in word and work is
 95 Repub|             mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look
 96 Repub|             is a lover of truth and being? ~They would not be so unreasonable. ~
 97 Repub|  unreasonable. ~Or that his nature, being such as we have delineated,
 98 Repub|            when they have come into being will anyone say that they
 99 Repub|             sort of thing which was being said, and then the argument
100 Repub|        nature there is no seeing or being seen? ~How do you mean? ~
101 Repub|             How do you mean? ~Sight being, as I conceive, in the eyes,
102 Repub|          eyes wanting to see; color being also present in them, still
103 Repub|             that on which truth and being shine, the soul perceives
104 Repub|          things known, but of their being and essence, and yet the
105 Repub|           to say that knowledge and being, which the science of dialectic
106 Repub|   understanding, and not reason, as being intermediate between opinion
107 Repub|           can only see before them, being prevented by the chains
108 Repub|            of the objects which are being carried in like manner they
109 Repub|            is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned toward
110 Repub|            the things which are now being shown to him? ~True, he
111 Repub|          his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other;
112 Repub|            of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to
113 Repub|      degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and
114 Repub|           the brightest and best of being, or, in other words, of
115 Repub|         would rather not have them. Being self-taught, they cannot
116 Repub|            night to the true day of being, that is, the ascent from
117 Repub|           the soul from becoming to being? And another consideration
118 Repub|             to draw the soul toward being. ~Will you explain your
119 Repub|           nothing to attract toward being; but when there is some
120 Repub|           the contemplation of true being. ~And surely, he said, this
121 Repub|               Yes, I said; and this being true of one must be equally
122 Repub|         change and lay hold of true being, and therefore he must be
123 Repub|          from becoming to truth and being. ~That is excellent, he
124 Repub|           is the full perfection of being, which she ought, by all
125 Repub|         geometry compels us to view being, it concerns us; if becoming
126 Repub|          knowledge only which is of being and of the unseen can make
127 Repub|          like-they only dream about being, but never can they behold
128 Repub|      perception of shadows, opinion being concerned with becoming,
129 Repub|        becoming, and intellect with being; and so to make a proportion: ~"
130 Repub|             make a proportion: ~"As being is to becoming, so is pure
131 Repub|      ignorance, and has no shame at being detected? ~To be sure. ~
132 Repub|    individual a friend, of one who, being defective in some part of
133 Repub|             one another and to true being. ~Yes, he said, that is
134 Repub|            truth to attain absolute being: And here, my friend, great
135 Repub|      desires? ~He cannot. ~And from being a keeper of the law he is
136 Repub|        constitution might come into being. Enough, then, of the perfect
137 Repub|           inferior sort of natures, being the contentious and ambitious,
138 Repub|           100 = 4900), each of them being less by one (than the perfect
139 Repub|             Clearly, the new State, being in a mean between oligarchy
140 Repub|     government-how did he come into being, and what is he like? ~I
141 Repub|          how does the son come into being? ~The character of the son
142 Repub|   passionate and appetitive; and he being not originally of a bad
143 Repub|             he is no longer a part, being neither trader, nor artisan,
144 Repub|              What then? ~The rulers being aware that their power rests
145 Repub|           then democracy comes into being after the poor have conquered
146 Repub|           be the fairest of States, being like an embroidered robe
147 Repub|         patterns enough. ~And there being no necessity, I said, for
148 Repub|           you are so disposed-there being no necessity also, because
149 Repub|            State, how he comes into being. ~Very good, he said. ~Is
150 Repub|            not of the getting sort, being those which are called unnecessary? ~
151 Repub|           in their power and who is being initiated by them in great
152 Repub|     overmasters democracy-the truth being that the excessive increase
153 Repub|           which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are
154 Repub|       another class which is always being severed from the mass. ~
155 Repub|     plotting against the people and being friends of oligarchy? True. ~
156 Repub|             of his enemies, or from being a man become a wolf-that
157 Repub|      wealthy and is also accused of being an enemy of the people sees
158 Repub|           cast in his teeth what is being done. ~Yes, that may be
159 Repub|            I said, the tragic poets being wise men will forgive us
160 Repub|             whom he has derived his being, will maintain him and his
161 Repub|       father did not bring him into being, or settle him in life,
162 Repub|         father's meanness. At last, being a better man than his corruptors,
163 Repub|        sense of the word comes into being when, either under the influence
164 Repub|            away their rights, so he being younger will claim to have
165 Repub|           in him and lawlessly, and being himself a king, leads him
166 Repub|           true. ~And this is he who being by nature most of a tyrant
167 Repub|           the further misfortune of being a public tyrant. ~From what
168 Repub|         tyrant will be bound-he who being by nature such as we have
169 Repub|             and that this is he who being the greatest tyrant of himself
170 Repub|            in the knowledge of true being is known to the philosopher
171 Repub|             that when they are only being drawn toward the painful
172 Repub|           purer, he replied, is the being of that which is concerned
173 Repub|           if there be a pleasure in being filled with that which is
174 Repub|        really filled with more real being will more really and truly
175 Repub|           participates in less real being will be less truly and surely
176 Repub|         they truly filled with true being, nor do they taste of pure
177 Repub|  remorselessly sells his own divine being to that which is most godless
178 Repub|      trampled in the mire, and from being a lion to become a monkey? ~
179 Repub|             reason. ~And therefore, being desirous of placing him
180 Repub|           and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums,
181 Repub|        knows, by talking to him and being compelled to hear what he
182 Repub|             have right opinion from being compelled to associate with
183 Repub|          wise and calm temperament, being always nearly equable, is
184 Repub|          imitative poet who aims at being popular is not by nature
185 Repub|          and he is also like him in being concerned with an inferior
186 Repub|          because you were afraid of being thought a buffoon, is now
187 Repub|          are well aware that poetry being such as we have described
188 Repub|              And should an immortal being seriously think of this
189 Repub|            this; but that the body, being one thing, can be destroyed
190 Repub|         consequence of these things being done to the body; but that
191 Repub|             her dwelling-place from being a house of death. ~True,
192 Repub|            said. ~The soul, I said, being, as is now proven, immortal,
193 Repub|             in a hundred years-such being reckoned to be the length
194 Repub|             s life, and the penalty being thus paid ten times in a
195 Repub|          crimes, and that they were being taken away to be cast into
196 Repub|          return to this, instead of being rough and underground, would