Dialogue

  1 Repub|        good to a friend, and never evil. ~You mean that the return
  2 Repub|      proper to him-that is to say, evil. ~Simonides, then, after
  3 Repub|          gives good to friends and evil to enemies. ~That is his
  4 Repub|            good to his friends and evil to his enemies in time of
  5 Repub|          hate those whom he thinks evil. ~Yes, but do not persons
  6 Repub|           often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem
  7 Repub|            will be enemies and the evil will be their friends? True. ~
  8 Repub|         right in doing good to the evil and evil to the good? ~Clearly. ~
  9 Repub|         doing good to the evil and evil to the good? ~Clearly. ~
 10 Repub|          our enemies when they are evil? ~Yes, that appears to me
 11 Repub|           owes to his friends, and evil the debt which he owes to
 12 Repub|            and the unjust like the evil and ignorant? ~That is the
 13 Repub|           and good, and the unjust evil and ignorant. ~Thrasymachus
 14 Repub|           as we did of men who are evil acting at any time vigorously
 15 Repub|            they had been perfectly evil, they would have laid hands
 16 Repub|  excellence? ~She cannot. ~Then an evil soul must necessarily be
 17 Repub|        soul must necessarily be an evil ruler and superintendent,
 18 Repub|           is virtue and wisdom, or evil and folly; and when there
 19 Repub|         good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater
 20 Repub|      injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good.
 21 Repub|            good, but as the lesser evil, and honored by reason of
 22 Repub|            suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled. Then
 23 Repub|         and injustice the greatest evil. Had this been the universal
 24 Repub|            a good and the other an evil to him. And please, as Glaucon
 25 Repub|        mean the essential good and evil which justice and injustice
 26 Repub|            a good and the other an evil, whether seen or unseen
 27 Repub|            present when justice is evil spoken of and not lifting
 28 Repub|            which hurts not does no evil? ~No. ~And can that which
 29 Repub|         And can that which does no evil be a cause of evil? ~Impossible. ~
 30 Repub|         does no evil be a cause of evil? ~Impossible. ~And the good
 31 Repub|          one of good, the other of evil lots," ~and that he to whom
 32 Repub|         two ~"Sometimes meets with evil fortune, at other times
 33 Repub|          the dispenser of good and evil to us." ~And if anyone asserts
 34 Repub|        being good is the author of evil to anyone is to be strenuously
 35 Repub|            gods are the authors of evil, and that heroes are no
 36 Repub|           have already proved that evil cannot come from the gods. ~
 37 Repub|            overtaken by some other evil, and at every such crisis
 38 Repub|          is a further stage of the evil in which a man is not only
 39 Repub|     experience or contamination of evil habits when young. And this
 40 Repub|           have no examples of what evil is in their own souls. ~
 41 Repub|        should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul,
 42 Repub|       observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should
 43 Repub|         lives in all ignorance and evil conditions, and has no sense
 44 Repub|          that of which the good or evil fortune is supposed by him
 45 Repub|          of good, and willingly of evil? Is not to have lost the
 46 Repub|          to have lost the truth an evil, and to possess the truth
 47 Repub|      discipline or hunger, or some evil habit or other, would turn
 48 Repub|         praise: but when, owing to evil education or association,
 49 Repub|           the sciences of good and evil are therefore good and evil;
 50 Repub|        evil are therefore good and evil; but only that, when the
 51 Repub|      practices lead to virtue, and evil practices to vice? ~Assuredly. ~
 52 Repub|            other is wrong; and the evil is one which affects not
 53 Repub|            order in which the four evil forms appeared to me to
 54 Repub|          the State for good or for evil. And now, since the question
 55 Repub|           and what is the greatest evil, and then consider whether
 56 Repub|        stamp of the good or of the evil? ~By all means. ~Can there
 57 Repub|           Can there be any greater evil than discord and distraction
 58 Repub|            experiences any good or evil, the whole State will make
 59 Repub|       authors of good, averters of evil, the guardians of speech-gifted
 60 Repub|          just and unjust, good and evil, and of every other class,
 61 Repub|         cities will not cease from evil until philosophers rule
 62 Repub|     captain, we cannot suspect any evil of the band which he leads? ~
 63 Repub|          suitable environment, for evil is a greater enemy to what
 64 Repub|      crimes and the spirit of pure evil spring out of a fulness
 65 Repub|           great good or very great evil? ~There I think that you
 66 Repub|            the notions of good and evil which the public in general
 67 Repub|      ignorant that, in the present evil state of governments, whatever
 68 Repub|           dishonorable, or good or evil, or just or unjust, all
 69 Repub|            the beast delights, and evil to be that which he dislikes;
 70 Repub|            authors of the greatest evil to States and individuals;
 71 Repub|     although philosophy be in this evil case, still there remains
 72 Repub|          own life and be pure from evil or unrighteousness, and
 73 Repub|           philosophy is in such an evil name have now been sufficiently
 74 Repub| individuals will have no rest from evil, nor will this our imaginary
 75 Repub|       divine contemplations to the evil state of man, misbehaving
 76 Repub|         forced into the service of evil, and he is mischievous in
 77 Repub|           I said, how great is the evil which dialectic has introduced? ~
 78 Repub|    dialectic has introduced? ~What evil? he said. ~The students
 79 Repub|          control over the good and evil of births. For when your
 80 Repub|           is a mixture of good and evil. ~Why, there is a mixture,
 81 Repub|            well. ~There is another evil which is, perhaps, the greatest
 82 Repub|         begins to be liable. ~What evil? ~A man may sell all that
 83 Repub|         creature. ~Yes, that is an evil which also first begins
 84 Repub|         begins in this State. ~The evil is certainly not prevented
 85 Repub|    education, ill-training, and an evil constitution of the State? ~
 86 Repub|         them-that is certain. ~The evil blazes up like a fire; and
 87 Repub|            the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them
 88 Repub|       noble desires, and others of evil desires, and that he ought
 89 Repub|          thirsting for freedom has evil cup-bearers presiding over
 90 Repub|            judgment about good and evil, are overthrown by those
 91 Repub|     associates, whether those whom evil communications have brought
 92 Repub|         him by reason of a similar evil nature in himself. Have
 93 Repub|          things, in the misery and evil which they inflict upon
 94 Repub|           this respecting good and evil is the greatest. ~Very true,
 95 Repub|        superior in pleasure to the evil and unjust, his superiority
 96 Repub|            the hands of fierce and evil men, would be the gainer,
 97 Repub|            such things are good or evil; and nothing is gained by
 98 Repub|      reason. As in a city when the evil are permitted to have authority
 99 Repub|         imitative poet implants an evil constitution, for he indulges
100 Repub|      should imagine, that from the evil of other men something of
101 Repub|          of other men something of evil is communicated to themselves.
102 Repub|         and another which you call evil? ~Yes, he replied. ~Would
103 Repub|          destroying element is the evil, and the saving and improving
104 Repub|  everything has a good and also an evil; as ophthalmia is the evil
105 Repub|         evil; as ophthalmia is the evil of the eyes and disease
106 Repub|   everything, there is an inherent evil and disease? ~Yes, he said. ~
107 Repub|         any of these evils is made evil, and at last wholly dissolves
108 Repub|         dies? ~True. ~The vice and evil which are inherent in each
109 Repub|          which is neither good nor evil. ~Certainly not. ~If, then,
110 Repub|            I said, and is there no evil which corrupts the soul? ~
111 Repub|         own injustice, which is an evil of the soul. Take the analogy
112 Repub|           analogy of the body: The evil of the body is a disease
113 Repub|        Does the injustice or other evil which exists in the soul
114 Repub|      through affection of external evil which could not be destroyed
115 Repub|      principle, unless some bodily evil can produce an evil of the
116 Repub|         bodily evil can produce an evil of the soul, we must not
117 Repub|   dissolved by any merely external evil which belongs to another? ~
118 Repub|           destroyed by an internal evil, can be destroyed by an
119 Repub|        dying do really become more evil and unrighteous, then, if
120 Repub|         power of destruction which evil has, and which kills them
121 Repub|          he will be delivered from evil. But I rather suspect the
122 Repub|           inherent natural vice or evil of the soul is unable to
123 Repub|          cannot be destroyed by an evil, whether inherent or external,
124 Repub|          best, excepting only such evil as is the necessary consequence
125 Repub|           been guilty of any other evil behavior, for each and all
126 Repub|           discern between good and evil, and so to choose always
127 Repub|          and what are the good and evil consequences of noble and
128 Repub|         choose, giving the name of evil to the life which will make
129 Repub|           the other allurements of evil, lest, coming upon tyrannies
130 Repub|    exchanged a good destiny for an evil or an evil for a good. For
131 Repub|          destiny for an evil or an evil for a good. For if a man
132 Repub|            into the gentle and the evil into the savage, in all
133 Repub|          of good and every sort of evil. Thus shall we live dear