Dialogue

 1 Repub|      for subjects to obey their rulers? ~I do. ~But are the rulers
 2 Repub|     rulers? ~I do. ~But are the rulers of States absolutely infallible,
 3 Repub|        we not admitted that the rulers may be mistaken about their
 4 Repub|       of the stronger, when the rulers unintentionally command
 5 Repub|       himself acknowledges that rulers may sometime command what
 6 Repub|     what was commanded by their rulers is just. ~Yes, Cleitophon,
 7 Repub|      arts are the superiors and rulers of their own subjects? ~
 8 Repub|        further imagine that the rulers of States, if they are true
 9 Repub|        States, if they are true rulers, never think of their subjects
10 Repub|      you seem to think that the rulers in States, that is to say,
11 Repub|        that is to say, the true rulers, like being in authority. ~
12 Repub|         therefore in order that rulers may be willing to rule,
13 Repub|         privilege of lying, the rulers of the State should be the
14 Repub|      the kind; and although the rulers have this privilege, for
15 Repub|    supposed to address to their rulers, whether in verse or prose,
16 Repub|        we not ask who are to be rulers and who subjects? ~Certainly. ~
17 Repub|        sort of way in which our rulers and guardians should be
18 Repub|        of the principles of the rulers. ~I agree with you, he said. ~
19 Repub|       lie which may deceive the rulers, if that be possible, and
20 Repub|         gradually, first to the rulers, then to the soldiers, and
21 Repub|        a first principle to the rulers, and above all else, that
22 Repub|      under the command of their rulers. Let them look round and
23 Repub|       be the best limit for our rulers to fix when they are considering
24 Repub|       all, the attention of our rulers should be directed-that
25 Repub|     there be any State in which rulers and subjects will be agreed
26 Repub|      temperance be found-in the rulers or in the subjects? ~In
27 Repub|        whether the agreement of rulers and subjects, or the preservation
28 Repub|         and watchfulness in the rulers, or whether this other which
29 Repub|      point of view: Are not the rulers in a State those to whom
30 Repub|        to hear the voice of the rulers, who are their shepherds. ~
31 Repub|      proceed to inquire how the rulers will carry out these arrangements,
32 Repub|      First, I think that if our rulers and their auxiliaries are
33 Repub|       an unholy thing which the rulers will forbid. ~Yes, he said,
34 Repub|       consummate skill will our rulers need if the same principle
35 Repub|    skill? ~Because, I said, our rulers will often have to practise
36 Repub|       mean, I replied, that our rulers will find a considerable
37 Repub|      must be a secret which the rulers only know, or there will
38 Repub|        to the discretion of the rulers, whose aim will be to preserve
39 Repub|        own ill-luck and not the rulers. ~To be sure, he said. ~
40 Repub|     without the sanction of the rulers; for we shall say that he
41 Repub|    State, like every other, has rulers and subjects? ~True. ~All
42 Repub|      which people give to their rulers in other States? ~Generally
43 Repub|    States they simply call them rulers. ~And in our State what
44 Repub| citizens do the people give the rulers? ~They are called saviours
45 Repub|       replied. ~And what do the rulers call the people? ~Their
46 Repub|        Slaves. ~And what do the rulers call one another in other
47 Repub|       two classes should be the rulers of our State? ~And how can
48 Repub|       and those only, should be rulers in the State. ~What do you
49 Repub|      and the appointment of the rulers, because I knew that the
50 Repub|       the other question of the rulers must be investigated from
51 Repub|        you into the world to be rulers of the hive, kings of yourselves
52 Repub|     that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern
53 Repub|      the fashion of our present rulers of State. ~Yes, my friend,
54 Repub|        contrive for your future rulers another and a better life
55 Repub|         will be the ruin of the rulers themselves and of the whole
56 Repub|      would not allow the future rulers to be like posts, having
57 Repub|       remember, I said, how the rulers were chosen before? ~Certainly,
58 Repub|      classes of auxiliaries and rulers disagree among themselves
59 Repub|    wisdom and education of your rulers will not attain; the laws
60 Repub|       the succeeding generation rulers will be appointed who have
61 Repub|           In the honor given to rulers, in the abstinence of the
62 Repub|         government in which the rulers are elected for their wealth,
63 Repub|    insatiable? ~What then? ~The rulers being aware that their power
64 Repub|  prevails among them. And often rulers and their subjects may come
65 Repub|       freedom, then, unless her rulers are very amenable and give
66 Repub|      have subjects who are like rulers, and rulers who are like
67 Repub|        who are like rulers, and rulers who are like subjects: these
68 Repub|      has introduced to be their rulers and masters. This is the
69 Repub|   pleasure and pain will be the rulers in our State. ~That is most
70 Repub|         grow older, they become rulers in their own city if they