Dialogue

 1 Repub|          and furious master. His words have often occurred to my
 2 Repub|            How admirable are his words! And the great blessing
 3 Repub|        still stand by the latter words. ~Well, there is another
 4 Repub|         fallen in the use of the words "friend" and "enemy." ~What
 5 Repub|        was panic-stricken at his words, and could not look at him
 6 Repub|           Socrates; you take the words in the sense which is most
 7 Repub|      that in your definition the words "of the stronger" are added. ~
 8 Repub|     justice. ~Those were not his words, rejoined Polemarchus. ~
 9 Repub|         and unimpaired. Take the words in your precise sense, and
10 Repub|        deluged our ears with his words, had a mind to go away.
11 Repub|      unlike? Were not these your words? ~They were. ~And you also
12 Repub|  SOCRATES, GLAUCON.) ~WITH these words I was thinking that I had
13 Repub|      suppose, Socrates, that the words which follow are not mine.
14 Repub|         and not to be, just; the words of AEschylus may be more
15 Repub|        the path of vice with the words of Hesiod: ~"Vice may be
16 Repub|       will say to himself in the words of Pindar: ~"Can I by justice
17 Repub|         disprove the truth of my words, and who is satisfied that
18 Repub|       been merely repeating, and words even stronger than these
19 Repub| Adeimantus, but on hearing these words I was quite delighted, and
20 Repub|        our young men to hear the words of AEschylus, that ~"God
21 Repub|      some profound meaning to my words; but I am only saying that
22 Repub|         true lie; for the lie in words is only a kind of imitation
23 Repub|         Yes. ~Whereas the lie in words is in certain cases useful
24 Repub|          shades, and any similar words of which the very mention
25 Repub|          of a stag," ~and of the words which follow? Would you
26 Repub|         a young man to hear such words? or the verse ~"The saddest
27 Repub| continued in his own person, the words would have been, not imitation,
28 Repub|      every form of expression in words? No one can say anything
29 Repub|          ode has three parts-the words, the melody, and the rhythm;
30 Repub|         you may. ~And as for the words, there will surely be no
31 Repub|         be no difference between words which are and which are
32 Repub|      rhythm will depend upon the words? ~Certainly. ~We were saying,
33 Repub|       the foot and the melody to words having a like spirit, not
34 Repub|    having a like spirit, not the words to the foot and melody.
35 Repub|     harmony are regulated by the words, and not the words by them. ~
36 Repub|        by the words, and not the words by them. ~Just so, he said,
37 Repub|           they should follow the words. ~And will not the words
38 Repub|         words. ~And will not the words and the character of the
39 Repub|   probable, if it did. ~How your words seem to hesitate on your
40 Repub|          in the face, or in what words to utter the audacious fiction,
41 Repub|      city: Who, on hearing these words, would choose to fight against
42 Repub|     education; and I mean by the words "under all circumstances"
43 Repub|          may, and if you add the words "of a citizen," you will
44 Repub|         master of itself, if the words "temperance" and "self-mastery"
45 Repub|          once more appeal to the words of Homer, which have been
46 Repub| sustaining the reason with noble words and lessons, and moderating
47 Repub|          which I only caught the words, "Shall we let him off,
48 Repub|          what a hornet's nest of words you are stirring. Now I
49 Repub|         to encourage me by these words. ~Yes, he said. ~Then let
50 Repub|         not to visit upon me the words which I am going to utter.
51 Repub|     dishonor; and do you mark my words. ~Proceed. ~I said: "Until
52 Repub|        in this new game of which words are the counters; and yet
53 Repub|      might say, that although in words he is not able to meet you
54 Repub|        said, still, if you leave words and look at facts, the persons
55 Repub|         public, apply when their words are powerless. ~Indeed they
56 Repub|        philosophy, consisting of words artificially brought together,
57 Repub|       strangers, he said, to the words of which you speak. ~And
58 Repub|      best of being, or, in other words, of the good. ~Very true. ~
59 Repub|     giving them science; and the words, whether fabulous or possibly
60 Repub|      with you and will take your words as a revelation; another
61 Repub|      many and diverse refute his words, until he is driven into
62 Repub|        things -hearing, too, the words of his father, and having
63 Repub|       and fair pursuits and true words, which make their abode
64 Repub|          sense will dispute your words. Come, then, I said, and
65 Repub|          gods and men"? ~Let the words be added. ~Then this, I
66 Repub|   argument, we may revert to the words which brought us hither:
67 Repub|         that he may have his own words presented before his eyes. ~
68 Repub|       should not like to have my words repeated to the tragedians
69 Repub|         which even now makes the words falter on my lips, for he
70 Repub|         manner the poet with his words and phrases may be said
71 Repub|          and judge only from his words, imagine that if he speaks
72 Repub|          seductions and make our words his law. ~Yes, he said,