Dialogue

  1 Repub|         night, which you certainly ought to see. Let us rise soon
  2 Repub|          Socrates, as often as you ought: If I were still able to
  3 Repub|          have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way
  4 Repub|          is not in his right mind, ought I to give them back to him?
  5 Repub|            No one would say that I ought or that I should be right
  6 Repub|         than they would say that I ought always to speak the truth
  7 Repub|            just now saying, that I ought to return a deposit of arms
  8 Repub|            he thinks that a friend ought always to do good to a friend,
  9 Repub|             Then I suppose that we ought to do good to the just and
 10 Repub|       friends, and in that case he ought to do harm to them; and
 11 Repub|           has good enemies whom he ought to benefit; but, if so,
 12 Repub|           me to be the truth. ~But ought the just to injure anyone
 13 Repub|            at all? ~Undoubtedly he ought to injure those who are
 14 Repub|           the person who is asked, ought he not to say what he thinks,
 15 Repub|         question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? ~
 16 Repub|         replied. ~Then I certainly ought not to shrink from going
 17 Repub|          your voice sooner than he ought to have been; but to my
 18 Repub|            will understand that he ought to seem only, and not to
 19 Repub|         Yes, far more easily. ~But ought we to attempt to construct
 20 Repub|           I mean that both of them ought to be quick to see, and
 21 Repub|              Whereas, I said, they ought to be dangerous to their
 22 Repub|            even if they were true, ought certainly not to be lightly
 23 Repub|            the founders of a State ought to know the general forms
 24 Repub|           laughing at them as they ought, hardly will any of them
 25 Repub|            but that surely is what ought not to be, as the argument
 26 Repub|         disproved by a better. ~It ought not to be. ~Neither ought
 27 Repub|          ought not to be. ~Neither ought our guardians to be given
 28 Repub|      strongly of opinion that they ought not to hear that sort of
 29 Repub|          by famous men, these they ought to see and hear; as, for
 30 Repub|          you whether our guardians ought to be imitators; or rather,
 31 Repub|         not bear on this end, they ought not to practise or imitate
 32 Repub|           of whom we say that they ought to be good men, to imitate
 33 Repub|            can see already what we ought to say about them, if we
 34 Repub|          to the same rules, for we ought not to seek out complex
 35 Repub|           in his condition of life ought to use the art of medicine
 36 Repub|          to put a question to you: Ought there not to be good physicians
 37 Repub|           governs mind by mind; he ought not therefore to have been
 38 Repub|          our opinion the guardians ought to have both these qualities? ~
 39 Repub|         Yes. ~And to this end they ought to be wise and efficient,
 40 Repub|     guardian" in the fullest sense ought to be applied to this higher
 41 Repub|        much more certain that they ought to be, and that true education,
 42 Repub|          is current among men, and ought not to pollute the divine
 43 Repub|         parts of the body-the eyes ought to be purple, but you have
 44 Repub|         but our own! ~Why so? ~You ought to speak of other States
 45 Repub|         new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived
 46 Repub|            to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited. So Damon
 47 Repub|         which the law ordains, and ought to have another name. ~Most
 48 Repub|            remember that too. ~And ought not the rational principle,
 49 Repub|            of reason about what he ought or ought not to fear? ~Right,
 50 Repub|      reason about what he ought or ought not to fear? ~Right, he
 51 Repub|         equally agreed that reason ought to rule, and do not rebel? ~
 52 Repub|       steps and say what I perhaps ought to have said before in the
 53 Repub|         are so entirely different, ought to perform the same actions?"
 54 Repub|             that different natures ought to have different pursuits,
 55 Repub|             that different natures ought to have the same pursuits-this
 56 Repub|             that different natures ought to have different pursuits,
 57 Repub|           that such pursuit or art ought to be assigned to one or
 58 Repub|          guardians and their wives ought to have the same pursuits. ~
 59 Repub|        character? ~Very true. ~And ought not the same natures to
 60 Repub|           the same pursuits? ~They ought. ~Then, as we were saying
 61 Repub|      forbid. ~Yes, he said, and it ought not to be permitted. ~Then
 62 Repub|           reason, and such fathers ought to have as many sons as
 63 Repub|           Why, said I, and so they ought. Let us, however, proceed
 64 Repub|           asking of ourselves what ought to be the chief aim of the
 65 Repub|          and plurality where unity ought to reign? or any greater
 66 Repub|           not. ~At the same time I ought here to repeat what I have
 67 Repub|              Next as to the slain; ought the conquerors, I said,
 68 Repub|           be an Hellenic city? ~It ought to be, he replied. ~Then
 69 Repub| unbelievers that you are right. ~I ought to try, I said, since you
 70 Repub|  discovered to be some natures who ought to study philosophy and
 71 Repub|          he is worthy of the name, ought to show his love, not to
 72 Repub|          of pleasure like yourself ought to know that all who are
 73 Repub|           who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects
 74 Repub|          light up again. ~But what ought to be their course? ~Just
 75 Repub|          such and so great as this ought the best men in our State,
 76 Repub|          not this unjust? he said; ought we to give them a worse
 77 Repub|        said. ~And those who govern ought not to be lovers of the
 78 Repub|     perfection of being, which she ought, by all means, to behold. ~
 79 Repub|           and dimensions of depth, ought to have followed. ~That
 80 Repub|     perfection which all knowledge ought to reach, and which our
 81 Repub|        reach, and which our pupils ought also to attain, and not
 82 Repub|            them sciences, but they ought to have some other name,
 83 Repub|            not? ~Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the
 84 Repub|        most at home in all of them ought to be enrolled in a select
 85 Repub|           we shall know whether we ought to pursue injustice, as
 86 Repub|           into the world when they ought not. Now that which is of
 87 Repub|           understand, he replied. ~Ought I not to begin by describing
 88 Repub|          evil desires, and that he ought to use and honor some, and
 89 Repub|          and lawgiver of the State ought, like the wise bee-master,
 90 Repub|           aver that a grown-up son ought not to be supported by his
 91 Repub|           him; but let us go as we ought into every corner of the
 92 Repub|           he said. ~Well, but what ought to be the criterion? Is
 93 Repub|          were saying, the decision ought to rest. ~Yes. ~And reasoning
 94 Repub|           them with one another-he ought rather to suffer them to
 95 Repub|           the best, we say that he ought to be the servant of the
 96 Repub|            poetry, which certainly ought not to be received; as I
 97 Repub|            can never be a poet, we ought to consider whether here
 98 Repub|            he will tell him how he ought to make them, and the other
 99 Repub|           them rule, although they ought to be controlled, if mankind
100 Repub|          are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our
101 Repub|     maintain this? ~Yes, I said, I ought to be, and you too-there
102 Repub|          men, still this admission ought to be made for the sake
103 Repub|        unjust after death. And you ought to hear them, and then both