Dialogue

  1 Repub|         which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing
  2 Repub|         player a more useful and better partner at a game of draughts? ~
  3 Repub|        just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? ~
  4 Repub|    partnership is the just man a better partner than the harp-player,
  5 Repub|        harpplayer is certainly a better partner than the just man? ~
  6 Repub|    knowing about horses would be better for that, would he not? ~
  7 Repub| shipwright or the pilot would be better? ~True. ~Then what is that
  8 Repub|         the unjust? ~I like that better. ~But see the consequence:
  9 Repub|          and I think that we had better correct an error into which
 10 Repub|          about justice other and better, he said, than any of these?
 11 Repub|     these civilities. It will be better that I should ask you a
 12 Repub|     Thrasymachus-whether we live better or worse from not knowing
 13 Repub|          ruling to anyone who is better than themselves, or indeed
 14 Repub|         Nothing, he said, can be better than that statement. ~And
 15 Repub|          they might act together better? ~Yes. ~And this is because
 16 Repub|       just are clearly wiser and better and abler than the unjust,
 17 Repub|          whether the just have a better and happier life than the
 18 Repub|        that to be just is always better than to be unjust? ~I should
 19 Repub|          the unjust is after all better far than the life of the
 20 Repub|         they think that they had better agree among themselves to
 21 Repub|          or private, he gets the better of his antagonists, and
 22 Repub|          wants to honor in a far better style than the just, and
 23 Repub|    making the life of the unjust better than the life of the just. ~
 24 Repub|         acknowledging them to be better than the others. But most
 25 Repub|         truly, why, then, we had better be unjust, and offer of
 26 Repub|         lips, I expect something better. And therefore, I say, not
 27 Repub|      prove to us that justice is better than injustice, but show
 28 Repub|        wits, I think that we had better adopt a method which I may
 29 Repub|       replied, that would be the better way; and when I hear you
 30 Repub|         And will you have a work better done when the workman has
 31 Repub|  plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does
 32 Repub|       suggestion, I said; we had better think the matter out, and
 33 Repub|         education? Can we find a better than the traditional sort?-
 34 Repub|   persons; if possible, they had better be buried in silence. But
 35 Repub|         right, and they were the better for being punished; but
 36 Repub|      then change himself for the better and fairer, or for the worse
 37 Repub|       until it is disproved by a better. ~It ought not to be. ~Neither
 38 Repub|           and that heroes are no better than men-sentiments which,
 39 Repub|    however, as I was saying, had better be referred to Damon himself,
 40 Repub|        said, I think that he had better begin somewhat sooner. ~
 41 Repub|  experience of disease; they had better not be robust in health,
 42 Repub|     State. They will minister to better natures, giving health both
 43 Repub|        of a falsehood and learns better, against his will whenever
 44 Repub|      them, but they are none the better for it; whereas other men
 45 Repub|         our poor citizens are no better than mercenaries who are
 46 Repub|        the human soul there is a better and also a worse principle;
 47 Repub|          principle; and when the better has the worse under control,
 48 Repub|    education or association, the better principle, which is also
 49 Repub|          express the rule of the better part over the worse. ~Yes,
 50 Repub|        length the desire got the better of him; and forcing them
 51 Repub|          which reasons about the better and worse to be different
 52 Repub|      things be uncovered was far better than to cover them up, and
 53 Repub|          had vanished before the better principle which reason asserted,
 54 Repub|        excellence, or is one man better than another? ~The latter. ~
 55 Repub|        And can there be anything better for the interests of the
 56 Repub|  possible? ~There can be nothing better. ~And this is what the arts
 57 Repub|          good sort, are not some better than others? ~True. ~And
 58 Repub|   rebellion. ~Very true. ~Had we better not appoint certain festivals
 59 Repub|        think that our braver and better youth, besides their other
 60 Repub|          the inferior, or of the better when they chance to be deformed,
 61 Repub|        the new generation may be better and more useful than their
 62 Repub| protectors is made out to be far better and nobler than that of
 63 Repub|       disaster, they will be the better for it? ~Clearly. ~Whether
 64 Repub|         spare them is infinitely better. ~Then no Hellene should
 65 Repub|          Yes, he said, that is a better temper than the other. ~
 66 Repub|        answers to your questions better than another-that is all.
 67 Repub|          I said. Can they have a better place than between being
 68 Repub|         that we might have had a better view of both of them if
 69 Repub|        of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling
 70 Repub|         him from yielding to his better nature and to render his
 71 Repub|      steadfast natures which can better be depended upon, which
 72 Repub|           you will understand me better when I have made some preliminary
 73 Repub|       sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light
 74 Repub|         he not say with Homer, ~"Better to be the poor servant of
 75 Repub|        his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending;
 76 Repub|           when they might have a better? ~You have again forgotten,
 77 Repub|        and have educated you far better and more perfectly than
 78 Repub|       been educated, and you are better able to share in the double
 79 Repub|      will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of
 80 Repub|      future rulers another and a better life than that of a ruler,
 81 Repub|         honors and another and a better life than that of politics? ~
 82 Repub|       from a day which is little better than night to the true day
 83 Repub|      them. And therefore you had better decide at once with which
 84 Repub|   obvious enough even to wits no better than ours; and there are
 85 Repub|      study, and therefore we had better go and learn of them; and
 86 Repub|      amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural
 87 Repub|          nothing which they like better. ~And when they have made
 88 Repub|     steer, even though he were a better pilot? ~You mean that they
 89 Repub|        one; but, in general, his better desires will be found to
 90 Repub|        sir, and there will be no better in which to look for a government. ~
 91 Repub|   guardians and sentinels. ~None better. ~False and boastful conceits
 92 Repub|          the worse and leave the better part, but he does the reverse. ~
 93 Repub|      laws and by reason, and the better desires prevail over them-either
 94 Repub|       meanness. At last, being a better man than his corruptors,
 95 Repub|        shame remaining, to these better principles he puts an end,
 96 Repub|   pleasures, and the new got the better of the old and took away
 97 Repub|       more or less honorable, or better or worse, but which is the
 98 Repub|         be the criterion? Is any better than experience, and wisdom,
 99 Repub|       reason? ~There cannot be a better, he said. ~Then, I said,
100 Repub|         will enable him to judge better than anyone? ~Far better. ~
101 Repub|         better than anyone? ~Far better. ~And he is the only one
102 Repub|         but because everyone had better be ruled by divine wisdom
103 Repub|       deems likely to make him a better man; but those, whether
104 Repub|       upon reflection pleases me better than the rule about poetry. ~
105 Repub|   discern what pursuits make men better or worse in private or public
106 Repub|      tell us what State was ever better governed by your help? The
107 Repub|         measure? ~True. ~And the better part of the soul is likely
108 Repub|      delighted by the poets; the better nature in each of us, not
109 Repub|        always and everywhere the better life as he has opportunity.
110 Repub|        to determine which is the better and which is the worse;