Dialogue

  1 Repub|         in the direction of the city; and at that instant Polemarchus,
  2 Repub|      already on your way to the city. ~You are not far wrong,
  3 Repub|         I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should
  4 Repub|       reason to think that if a city were composed entirely of
  5 Repub|         her abode, whether in a city, in an army, in a family,
  6 Repub|     therefore bears rule in the city; he can marry whom he will,
  7 Repub|      And now let us see how our city will be able to supply this
  8 Repub|    required supply from another city? ~There must. ~But if the
  9 Repub|         Then, again, within the city, how will they exchange
 10 Repub|       those who wander from one city to another are called merchants? ~
 11 Repub|        you were providing for a city of pigs, how else would
 12 Repub|        sufficient. Now will the city have to fill and swell with
 13 Repub|        the task of guarding the city? ~It will. ~And the selection
 14 Repub|      chased round and round the city, and my heart is sorrowful." ~
 15 Repub|        send him away to another city. For we mean to employ for
 16 Repub|         the harp for use in the city, and the shepherds may have
 17 Repub|      Then I suppose that in the city which we are founding you
 18 Repub|     slaves but the freemen of a city take about them. ~Of course. ~
 19 Repub|       best of guardians for our city, must they not be those
 20 Repub|        any rate the rest of the city? ~What sort of lie? he said. ~
 21 Repub|     make them care more for the city and for one another. Enough,
 22 Repub|      their own unhappiness; the city in fact belongs to them,
 23 Repub|        who are quartered in the city and are always mounting
 24 Repub|        they will creep into the city unobserved. ~What evils? ~
 25 Repub|         know, Socrates, how our city will be able to go to war,
 26 Repub|         the spoils of the other city: Who, on hearing these words,
 27 Repub|    number; not one of them is a city, but many cities, as they
 28 Repub|        the game. For indeed any city, however small, is in fact
 29 Repub|       divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of
 30 Repub|       to our guardians: Let our city be accounted neither large
 31 Repub|      not many; and so the whole city would be one and not many. ~
 32 Repub| ourselves, and as founders of a city we should be unwise in trusting
 33 Repub|     tell me where. Now that our city has been made habitable,
 34 Repub|         knowledge which gives a city the title of wise and good
 35 Repub|          that would only give a city the reputation of skill
 36 Repub|        in carpentering. ~Then a city is not to be called wise
 37 Repub|      earth; that would give the city the name of agricultural? ~
 38 Repub|      what is the name which the city derives from the possession
 39 Repub|        And will there be in our city more of these true guardians
 40 Repub|        the effect of making the city either the one or the other. ~
 41 Repub|     other. ~Certainly not. ~The city will be courageous in virtue
 42 Repub|     said. ~Then if there be any city which may be described as
 43 Repub|         evil-doing to one's own city would be termed by you injustice? ~
 44 Repub|      justice, and will make the city just. ~I agree with you. ~
 45 Repub|       SUCH is the good and true City or State, and the good and
 46 Repub|        an orderly fashion; in a city of the blessed, licentiousness
 47 Repub|       and priests and the whole city will offer, that the new
 48 Repub|         events happening to the city or the citizens? ~Certainly. ~
 49 Repub|    spirit of them? ~Then in our city the language of harmony
 50 Repub|          they will not tear the city in pieces by differing about "
 51 Repub|       danger of the rest of the city being divided either against
 52 Repub|   common whether abiding in the city or going out to war; they
 53 Repub|        be discord occurs, and a city is divided, if both parties
 54 Repub|        other. ~And will not the city, which you are founding,
 55 Repub|        founding, be an Hellenic city? ~It ought to be, he replied. ~
 56 Repub|      prove the possibility of a city being ordered in the manner
 57 Repub|     only able to discover how a city may be governed nearly as
 58 Repub|         be a citizen of a great city, rich and noble, and a tall,
 59 Repub|       lofty soul born in a mean city, the politics of which he
 60 Repub|   virtue-such a man ruling in a city which bears the same image,
 61 Repub|      there be one man who has a city obedient to his will, and
 62 Repub|        inhabitants of your fair city should by all means learn
 63 Repub|        and dwell there; and the city will give them public memorials
 64 Repub|     they set in order their own city? ~How will they proceed? ~
 65 Repub|      all the inhabitants of the city who are more than ten years
 66 Repub|         we will go and view the city of tyranny, and once more
 67 Repub|        what way, then, will our city be moved, and in what manner
 68 Repub|       us? ~After this manner: A city which is thus constituted
 69 Repub|       dwells in an ill-governed city, of which he declines the
 70 Repub|       their own business in the city are called simpletons, and
 71 Repub|    should imagine so. ~Except a city?-or would you include a
 72 Repub|          or would you include a city? ~Nay, he said, the case
 73 Repub|          he said, the case of a city is the strongest of all,
 74 Repub|       inasmuch as the rule of a city is the greatest and most
 75 Repub|        sale he may dwell in the city of which he is no longer
 76 Repub|        one is the plague of the city as the other is of the hive? ~
 77 Repub|        still they remain in the city; there they are, ready to
 78 Repub|        not free; and is not the city full of freedom and frankness-a
 79 Repub|      Inevitably. ~And as in the city like was helping like, and
 80 Repub|       he then readmits into the city some part of the exiled
 81 Repub|        are the plagues of every city in which they are generated,
 82 Repub|         sacred treasures in the city, he will confiscate and
 83 Repub|       pieces of mischief in the city. ~What sort of mischief? ~
 84 Repub|     Then comparing our original city, which was under a king,
 85 Repub|       was under a king, and the city which is under a tyrant,
 86 Repub|        into every corner of the city and look all about, and
 87 Repub|   replied, would you say that a city which is governed by a tyrant
 88 Repub|        is free or enslaved? ~No city, he said, can be more completely
 89 Repub|          Certainly. ~And is the city which is under a tyrant
 90 Repub|       reason is, that the whole city is leagued together for
 91 Repub|        alone, of all men in the city, he is never allowed to
 92 Repub|        is the ally of the whole city; and is seen also in the
 93 Repub|      said. ~He will look at the city which is within him, and
 94 Repub|       of Egypt, he will! in the city which is his own he certainly
 95 Repub|       he will be a ruler in the city of which we are the founders,
 96 Repub|        after the manner of that city, having nothing to do with
 97 Repub|     renowned among us; but what city has anything to say about
 98 Repub|        about you?" Is there any city which he might name? ~I
 99 Repub|     impairs the reason. As in a city when the evil are permitted
100 Repub|   fearing for the safety of the city which is within him, should
101 Repub|      become rulers in their own city if they care to be; they
102 Repub|         been the tyrant of some city of Pamphylia, and had murdered