Dialogue

 1 Repub|          States there is the same principle of justice, which is the
 2 Repub|           everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the
 3 Repub|          like testimony. ~On what principle, then, shall we any longer
 4 Repub|           if we were right in the principle which was acknowledged by
 5 Repub|       were framing the State. The principle, as you will remember, was
 6 Repub|          do you think of a second principle? Shall I ask you whether
 7 Repub|   influence? ~True. ~And the same principle, as I should suppose, applies
 8 Repub|         rid of them? Reflect: our principle is that the good man will
 9 Repub|        comrade. ~Yes; that is our principle. ~And therefore he will
10 Repub|         that you have implied the principle for which we have been all
11 Repub|      manner follow style; for our principle is that rhythm and harmony
12 Repub|            in accordance with the principle already affirmed by us,
13 Repub|      these all follow the general principle, and having found that,
14 Repub|          God proclaims as a first principle to the rulers, and above
15 Repub|     individually, or whether this principle of happiness does not rather
16 Repub|       will all follow the general principle that friends have all things
17 Repub|        all their actions and be a principle of growth to them, and if
18 Repub|         be any fallen places [a] [principle] in the State will raise
19 Repub|           better and also a worse principle; and when the better has
20 Repub|           association, the better principle, which is also the smaller,
21 Repub|         You remember the original principle which we were always laying
22 Repub|      adapted; now justice is this principle or a part of it. ~Yes, we
23 Repub|          own? ~Yes; that is their principle. ~Which is a just principle? ~
24 Repub|       principle. ~Which is a just principle? ~Yes. ~Then on this view
25 Repub|             And does not the same principle hold in the sciences? The
26 Repub|        different from the thirsty principle which draws him like a beast
27 Repub|       other and stronger than the principle which bids him? ~I should
28 Repub|           so. ~And the forbidding principle is derived from reason,
29 Repub|          we may call the rational principle of the soul; the other,
30 Repub|          the side of the rational principle. ~Most assuredly. ~But a
31 Repub|        And ought not the rational principle, which is wise, and has
32 Repub|        the passionate or spirited principle to be the subject and ally? ~
33 Repub|            in whom the one ruling principle of reason, and the two subject
34 Repub|         very essence of the vital principle is undermined and corrupted,
35 Repub|        vanished before the better principle which reason asserted, then
36 Repub|           the State, admitted the principle that everybody was to do
37 Repub|           rulers need if the same principle holds of the human species! ~
38 Repub|     species! ~Certainly, the same principle holds; but why does this
39 Repub|         How so? ~Why, I said, the principle has been already laid down
40 Repub|        this agrees with the other principle which we were affirming-that
41 Repub|           impulses, and all solid principle goes out of them. ~Very
42 Repub|           is in other things-of a principle such and so great as this
43 Repub|         you conceive this supreme principle of the good to be knowledge
44 Repub|      instead of going upward to a principle descends to the other end;
45 Repub|      hypotheses, and goes up to a principle which is above hypotheses,
46 Repub|          not ascending to a first principle, because she is unable to
47 Repub|          beyond them to the first principle of the whole; and clinging
48 Repub| hypotheses and do not ascend to a principle, those who contemplate them
49 Repub|       them, although when a first principle is added to them they are
50 Repub|          of elevating the highest principle in the soul to the contemplation
51 Repub|           knows not his own first principle, and when the conclusion
52 Repub|        goes directly to the first principle and is the only science
53 Repub|           nourishing the rational principle in his soul, the others
54 Repub|          within him to the middle principle of contentiousness and passion,
55 Repub|         begin of the oligarchical principle within him into the democratical? ~
56 Repub|       which aids the oligarchical principle within him, whether the
57 Repub|       times when the democratical principle gives way to the oligarchical,
58 Repub|            he said. ~There is one principle with which, as we were saying,
59 Repub|            everyone sees that the principle of knowledge is wholly directed
60 Repub|        the soul? ~Certainly. ~One principle prevails in the souls of
61 Repub|           whom this is the ruling principle has the pleasantest life. ~
62 Repub|         follows the philosophical principle, and there is no division,
63 Repub|    natural weakness of the higher principle; the individual is unable
64 Repub|        have established in them a principle analogous to the constitution
65 Repub|  acquisition of wealth there is a principle of order and harmony which
66 Repub|          from want; and upon this principle he will regulate his property
67 Repub|        imitation to be the ruling principle of his life, as if he had
68 Repub|          calculating and rational principle in the soul? ~To be sure. ~
69 Repub|           be sure. ~And when this principle measures and certifies that
70 Repub|       friends and associates of a principle within us which is equally
71 Repub|        him do? ~True. ~There is a principle of law and reason in him
72 Repub|            I said; and the higher principle is ready to follow this
73 Repub|           Clearly. ~And the other principle, which inclines us to recollection
74 Repub|         or to affect the rational principle in the soul; but he will
75 Repub|           is repeated; there is a principle in human nature which is
76 Repub|           true. ~And, on the same principle, unless some bodily evil
77 Repub|           following this superior principle, and borne by a divine impulse