Dialogue

 1 Repub|         festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the
 2 Repub|         gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel
 3 Repub|          I say, that, setting one thing against another, of the
 4 Repub|      asked him what due or proper thing is given by medicine, and
 5 Repub|            And what due or proper thing is given by cookery, and
 6 Repub|        are seeking for justice, a thing more precious than many
 7 Repub|           utter them? The natural thing is, that the speaker should
 8 Repub|        would say the same sort of thing of the physician? ~Yes. ~
 9 Repub|        accomplished, by any other thing? ~I do not understand, he
10 Repub|        accomplished, by any other thing? ~I understand your meaning,
11 Repub|     quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him
12 Repub|        case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at
13 Repub|           cannot. ~Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship
14 Repub|        Yes, he said, that sort of thing is certainly very blamable;
15 Repub|           Certainly. ~And no good thing is hurtful? ~No, indeed. ~
16 Repub|         be effected either by the thing itself or by some other
17 Repub|           itself or by some other thing? ~Most certainly. ~And things
18 Repub|          not to hear that sort of thing. ~But any deeds of endurance
19 Repub|           one man can only do one thing well, and not many; and
20 Repub|     thunder, and all that sort of thing? ~Nay, he said, if madness
21 Repub|           is but a sleepy sort of thing, and rather perilous to
22 Repub|         higher and nobler sort of thing. Is not that still more
23 Repub|        head, and all that sort of thing, he replies at once that
24 Repub|          That is clearly the best thing both for the patients and
25 Repub|           be a foul and monstrous thing in a shepherd? ~Truly monstrous,
26 Repub|          of the one great thing-a thing, however, which I would
27 Repub|         replied; and the charming thing is that they deem him their
28 Repub|          not about any particular thing in the State, but about
29 Repub|           man should practise one thing only, the thing to which
30 Repub|      practise one thing only, the thing to which his nature was
31 Repub|        that one man should do one thing only. ~Further, we affirmed
32 Repub|      replied as follows: The same thing clearly cannot act or be
33 Repub|           in relation to the same thing at the same time, in contrary
34 Repub|     example, I said, can the same thing be at rest and in motion
35 Repub|          to believe that the same thing at the same time, in the
36 Repub|           in relation to the same thing, can act or be acted upon
37 Repub|         is drawing to himself the thing which he wishes to possess:
38 Repub|          we were saying, the same thing cannot at the same time
39 Repub|          be opposed, is a sort of thing which I believe that you
40 Repub|          a dangerous and slippery thing; and the danger is not that
41 Repub|           and the most ridiculous thing of all will be the sight
42 Repub|       that one man will acquire a thing easily, another with difficulty;
43 Repub|       licentiousness is an unholy thing which the rulers will forbid. ~
44 Repub|             Then clearly the next thing will be to make matrimony
45 Repub|        hand over all this sort of thing to the nurses and attendants. ~
46 Repub|         an unholy and unrighteous thing; the child of which he is
47 Repub|          the same way to the same thing? ~Quite true. ~Or that again
48 Repub|       common interest in the same thing which they will alike call "
49 Repub|         also a very strengthening thing. ~Most true, he said. ~Then
50 Repub|            if possible, be of one thing only, or, if not, of two;
51 Repub|           public is indeed a hard thing. ~Socrates, what do you
52 Repub|         an opinion about some one thing? ~Yes. ~And not-being is
53 Repub|          And not-being is not one thing, but, properly speaking,
54 Repub|           same time, that sort of thing would appear also to lie
55 Repub|          doubles, that is, of one thing, and halves of another? ~
56 Repub|        who love the truth in each thing are to be called lovers
57 Repub|         of the true being of each thing, and who have in their souls
58 Repub|       know the very truth of each thing? ~There can be no reason,
59 Repub|           grievous that no single thing on earth is comparable to
60 Repub|         was the doer of any great thing either to individuals or
61 Repub|       death. This was the sort of thing which was being said, and
62 Repub|           and light is no ignoble thing? ~Nay, he said, the reverse
63 Repub|        said; and there is another thing which is likely, or rather
64 Repub|         to the soul that the same thing is felt to be both hard
65 Repub|          one; for we see the same thing to be both one and infinite
66 Repub|           probably know, the same thing happens. The teachers of
67 Repub|         not. ~That, he said, is a thing of more than mortal knowledge. ~
68 Repub|         than mortal knowledge. ~A thing, I replied, which I would
69 Repub|         of ascertaining what each thing is in its own nature; for
70 Repub| conception of the essence of each thing? And he who does not possess
71 Repub|          mixture, I said; but one thing, and one thing only, is
72 Repub|            but one thing, and one thing only, is predominantly seen-the
73 Repub|         and sees the same sort of thing: those who do their own
74 Repub|         great mysteries, the next thing is to bring back to their
75 Repub|           I have dreamed the same thing. ~And above all, I said,
76 Repub|           then, tragedy is a wise thing and Euripides a great tragedian. ~
77 Repub|          further imagine the same thing to happen to the son which
78 Repub|  courtesans, and all that sort of thing; Love is the lord of the
79 Repub|     really do not know.  A likely thing, then, that I should know. ~
80 Repub|        duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener. ~
81 Repub|           knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of
82 Repub|      without knowing what makes a thing good or bad, and may be
83 Repub|          same time about the same thing? ~Very true. ~Then that
84 Repub|            also, because no human thing is of serious importance,
85 Repub|         less, but thinks the same thing at one time great and at
86 Repub|       harmed), is surely an awful thing? ~Yes, certainly, if the
87 Repub|        ten is surely but a little thing in comparison with eternity? ~
88 Repub|         am attending. ~There is a thing which you call good and
89 Repub|          that the body, being one thing, can be destroyed by the
90 Repub|       that the soul, which is one thing, can be dissolved by any
91 Repub|        said-and this is the first thing which you will have to give
92 Repub|           and seek and follow one thing only, if peradventure he