Dialogue

 1 Repub|         poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does
 2 Repub|        as they imagine. I might answer them as Themistocles answered
 3 Repub|     medicine, and to whom, what answer do you think that he would
 4 Repub|         should not only ask but answer, and you should not seek
 5 Repub|     opponent, but have your own answer; for there is many a one
 6 Repub|      one who can ask and cannot answer. And now I will not have
 7 Repub|        asked he would refuse to answer, and try irony or any other
 8 Repub|        the question, no one can answer you. But suppose that he
 9 Repub|       you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely
10 Repub|         meaning?"-How would you answer him? ~Just as if the two
11 Repub|       But what if I give you an answer about justice other and
12 Repub|       he always does -refuse to answer himself, but take and pull
13 Repub|     take and pull to pieces the answer of someone else. ~Why, my
14 Repub|          I said, how can anyone answer who knows, and says that
15 Repub|     knows. Will you then kindly answer, for the edification of
16 Repub|        that he had an excellent answer, and would distinguish himself.
17 Repub|     very soon find out when you answer; for I expect that you will
18 Repub|      for I expect that you will answer well. ~Listen, then, he
19 Repub|      begin at the beginning and answer me. You say that perfect
20 Repub|       be vice and deformity, an answer might have been given to
21 Repub|      But will you be so good as answer yet one more question? Does
22 Repub|       you are saying or have no answer; if, however, I were to
23 Repub|          if, however, I were to answer, you would be quite certain
24 Repub|   rather ask, do so, and I will answer "Very good," as they say
25 Repub|        I will ask and you shall answer. ~Proceed. ~Then I will
26 Repub|     isolation to be effected? I answer: Let the unjust man be entirely
27 Repub|       going to say something in answer to Glaucon, when Adeimantus,
28 Repub|     often difficult; to which I answer, Nothing great is easy.
29 Repub|     were not satisfied with the answer which I made to Thrasymachus,
30 Repub|       you speaking-how shall we answer him? ~I said to him, You
31 Repub|         proper image? ~I cannot answer you, he said, without more
32 Repub|       are not in a condition to answer this question at present,
33 Repub|         a good man (which is my answer to your question); for he
34 Repub|         question: How would you answer, Socrates, said he, if a
35 Repub|        I said, what will be our answer? ~Yes. ~If we proceed along
36 Repub|       is that we shall find the answer. And our answer will be
37 Repub|        find the answer. And our answer will be that, even as they
38 Repub|    black-to him we might fairly answer: Sir, you would not surely
39 Repub|         take heart yourself and answer the question in your own
40 Repub|       my simple friend, but the answer is the reverse of easy;
41 Repub|         not an easy question to answer when asked suddenly; and
42 Repub|       that to give a sufficient answer on the instant is not easy;
43 Repub|         if you don't prepare an answer, and put yourself in motion,
44 Repub| something or nothing? (You must answer for him). ~I answer that
45 Repub|        must answer for him). ~I answer that he knows something. ~
46 Repub|       you be so very good as to answer one more question? Would
47 Repub|       which errs? ~An excellent answer, proving, I said, that we
48 Repub|          And how can we rightly answer that question? ~Whichever
49 Repub|       is your opinion. ~Hear my answer; I am of opinion that they
50 Repub|      means. ~And let us ask and answer in turn, first going back
51 Repub|        their notion of him, and answer in another strain. Who can
52 Repub|        no jealousy? Nay, let me answer for you, that in a few this
53 Repub|         that you have heard the answer many times, and now you
54 Repub|       the two main divisions to answer, one to the visible and
55 Repub|        preceded will supply the answer; for if simple unity could
56 Repub|     indivisible-what would they answer? ~They would answer, as
57 Repub|        they answer? ~They would answer, as I should conceive, that
58 Repub|         do you give me the same answer which you were about to
59 Repub|  contentious and ambitious, who answer to the Spartan polity; also
60 Repub|      arising; and this is their answer to us. ~Yes, and we may
61 Repub|         we may assume that they answer truly. ~Why, yes, I said,
62 Repub|          I said, of course they answer truly; how can the muses
63 Repub|     Glaucon, taking his turn to answer. ~And will not he who has
64 Repub|      then have someone who will answer our inquiries. ~By all means. ~
65 Repub|       the subject and you shall answer my questions. ~Proceed. ~
66 Repub|      supporter of justice makes answer that he should ever so speak
67 Repub|       so far, we may ask him to answer another question: "Then
68 Repub|       Glaucon, far worse-I will answer for him. ~Has not the intemperate
69 Repub|        to me, then, or, rather, answer me. ~Put your question. ~
70 Repub|         abominable crimes.) The answer of the other spirit was: "