Dialogue

  1 Repub|            I think so. ~And who is best able to do good to his friends
  2 Repub|           point: Is not he who can best strike a blow in a boxing
  3 Repub|            in any kind of fighting best able to ward off a blow? ~
  4 Repub|         escaping from a disease is best able to create one? ~True. ~
  5 Repub|         one? ~True. ~And he is the best guard of a camp who is best
  6 Repub|        best guard of a camp who is best able to steal a march upon
  7 Repub|            has only to provide the best for them, since the perfection
  8 Repub|          this payment which to the best men is the great inducement
  9 Repub|            and I will add that the best and most perfectly unjust
 10 Repub|            compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice
 11 Repub|            power to be unjust will best appear if we imagine something
 12 Repub|         the former. Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought
 13 Repub|         were two statues. ~I do my best, he said. And now that we
 14 Repub|        walk if they would make the best of life? Probably the youth
 15 Repub|          satisfied that justice is best, still he is not angry with
 16 Repub|       defence. And therefore I had best give such help as I can. ~
 17 Repub|           must be brave and do our best. ~We must. ~Is not the noble
 18 Repub|          things which are at their best are also least liable to
 19 Repub|          supposed, the fairest and best that is conceivable, every
 20 Repub|          the dithyramb affords the best example; and the combination
 21 Repub|           a State, and are not the best those who have treated the
 22 Repub|           and bad? and are not the best judges in like manner those
 23 Repub|   themselves. ~That is clearly the best thing both for the patients
 24 Repub|           fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul,
 25 Repub|             Clearly. ~And that the best of these must rule. ~That
 26 Repub|           clear. ~Now, are not the best husbandmen those who are
 27 Repub|          And as we are to have the best of guardians for our city,
 28 Repub|           must inquire who are the best guardians of their own conviction
 29 Repub|      select a spot whence they can best suppress insurrection, if
 30 Repub|         good education furnish the best safeguard? ~But they are
 31 Repub|           do their own work in the best way. And thus the whole
 32 Repub|          what, I said, will be the best limit for our rulers to
 33 Repub|            says. ~That will be the best way of settling them. ~Also,
 34 Repub|   knowledge which counsels for the best about wooden implements? ~
 35 Repub|          considers how a State can best deal with itself and with
 36 Repub|            in a few, and those the best born and best educated. ~
 37 Repub|            those the best born and best educated. ~Very true. These
 38 Repub|            to which his nature was best adapted; now justice is
 39 Repub|          he said, that will be the best way. ~Well, I said, would
 40 Repub|      together will they not be the best defenders of the whole soul
 41 Repub|      practicable, would be for the best, is also doubtful. Hence
 42 Repub|            share? That will be the best way of commencing the inquiry,
 43 Repub|              That will be much the best way. ~Shall we take the
 44 Repub|         that our guardians are the best of our citizens? ~By far
 45 Repub|          our citizens? ~By far the best. ~And will not their wives
 46 Repub|        will not their wives be the best women? ~Yes, by far the
 47 Repub|            women? ~Yes, by far the best. ~And can there be anything
 48 Repub|   exercising their bodies from the best of motives, in his laughter
 49 Repub|          is, and ever will be, the best of sayings, "that the useful
 50 Repub|        take care to breed from the best only? ~From the best. ~And
 51 Repub|           the best only? ~From the best. ~And do you take the oldest
 52 Repub|         already laid down that the best of either sex should be
 53 Repub|          should be united with the best as often, and the inferior
 54 Repub|      judgment, is of all lives the best, but, infatuated by some
 55 Repub|         doing they will do what is best, and will not violate, but
 56 Repub|        auxiliary, you must do your best to show the unbelievers
 57 Repub|           Whichever of the two are best able to guard the laws and
 58 Repub|          who may be considered the best of them are made useless
 59 Repub|            the manner in which the best men are treated in their
 60 Repub|          him, that, in deeming the best votaries of philosophy to
 61 Repub|         are arrant rogues, and the best are useless; in which opinion
 62 Repub|          describing of the natures best adapted to the best of all
 63 Repub|        natures best adapted to the best of all pursuits; they are
 64 Repub|     possible, is assuredly for the best. ~We have. ~And now we say
 65 Repub|          enacted, would be for the best, but also that the enactment
 66 Repub|            great as this ought the best men in our State, to whom
 67 Repub|          opinions are bad, and the best of them blind? You would
 68 Repub|      however slight. ~I will do my best, I said; but I should think
 69 Repub|            he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of
 70 Repub|             and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions
 71 Repub|           and of the brightest and best of being, or, in other words,
 72 Repub|        State will be to compel the best minds to attain that knowledge
 73 Repub|            to govern is always the best and most quietly governed,
 74 Repub|           and by whom the State is best administered, and who at
 75 Repub|          of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained,
 76 Repub|     contemplation of that which is best in existence, with which
 77 Repub|         here, though I would do my best, and you should behold not
 78 Repub|              Yes, that will be the best way. And I think, Socrates,
 79 Repub|         also to be common, and the best philosophers and the bravest
 80 Repub|           agreed as to who was the best and who was the worst of
 81 Repub|            to consider whether the best was not also the happiest,
 82 Repub| aristocracy (the government of the best). Clearly, all political
 83 Repub|     fortunate. And though only the best of them will be appointed
 84 Repub|            virtue, having lost his best guardian. ~Who was that?
 85 Repub|              One which is the next best, and has the advantage of
 86 Repub|            the gods, and are their best guardians and sentinels. ~
 87 Repub|          before the people as they best can? ~What else can they
 88 Repub|         will be able to trust them best of all. ~What a blessed
 89 Repub|          said, for one is the very best and the other is the very
 90 Repub|        speaking generally, and the best of them are miserably degraded
 91 Repub|         meanness and vulgarity-the best elements in him are enslaved;
 92 Repub|            the son of Ariston (the best) has decided that the best
 93 Repub|         best) has decided that the best and justest is also the
 94 Repub|          to them, if that which is best for each one is also most
 95 Repub|          him? ~Yes, certainly; the best is the most natural. ~And
 96 Repub|            and enjoy severally the best and truest pleasures of
 97 Repub|            a rule like that of the best, we say that he ought to
 98 Repub|           to be the servant of the best, in whom the Divine rules;
 99 Repub|         patient under suffering is best, and that we should not
100 Repub|         the way which reason deems best; not, like children who
101 Repub|          say. ~Hear and judge: The best of us, as I conceive, when
102 Repub|         and smiting his breast-the best of us, you know, delight
103 Repub|      consent have ever been deemed best, but pleasure and pain will
104 Repub|       would have her appear at her best and truest; but so long
105 Repub|           has been shown to be the best for the soul in her own
106 Repub|           them all things at their best, excepting only such evil
107 Repub|          and know that this is the best choice both in life and