Dialogue

 1 Repub|            or of parents for their children, besides that natural love
 2 Repub|      Musaeus and Orpheus, who were children of the Moon and the muses-that
 3 Repub|            cities declare; and the children of the gods, who were their
 4 Repub|         myrtle. And they and their children will feast, drinking of
 5 Repub|            a similar life to their children after them. ~Yes, Socrates,
 6 Repub|           that we begin by telling children stories which, though not
 7 Repub|           we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales
 8 Repub|           and nurses to tell their children the authorized ones only.
 9 Repub|            should begin by telling children; and when they grow up,
10 Repub|            the poets scaring their children with a bad version of these
11 Repub|         they make cowards of their children, and at the same time speak
12 Repub|            most popular style with children and their attendants, and
13 Repub|     citizens they are to regard as children of the earth and their own
14 Repub|      generally be preserved in the children. But as all are of the same
15 Repub|       women and the procreation of children, which will all follow the
16 Repub|       pains are generally found in children and women and servants,
17 Repub|  mentioning, and which is found in children and women, slave and freeman,
18 Repub|          may observe even in young children that they are full of spirit
19 Repub|            the matter of women and children "friends have all things
20 Repub|       citizens-how they will bring children into the world, and rear
21 Repub|          of community of women and children is this which is to prevail
22 Repub|    possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on
23 Repub|           and nurture of women and children. ~By Zeus, he said, the
24 Repub|          bearing and men begetting children, this does not amount to
25 Repub|            to be common, and their children are to be common, and no
26 Repub|        utility of having wives and children in common; the possibility
27 Repub|            it when they are having children. ~Why, said I, and so they
28 Repub|           of age may begin to bear children to the State, and continue
29 Repub|    quickest, and continue to beget children until he be fifty-five. ~
30 Repub|     married will call all the male children who are born in the seventh
31 Repub|           his sons, and the female children his daughters, and they
32 Repub|             and he will call their children his grandchildren, and they
33 Repub|           be the strains which the children will hear repeated in their
34 Repub|           a community of women and children? ~That will be the chief
35 Repub|         the community of wives and children among our citizens is clearly
36 Repub|            has a separate wife and children and private pleasures and
37 Repub|         quarrels of which money or children or relations are the occasion. ~
38 Repub|          with which they and their children are crowned is the fulness
39 Repub| described-common education, common children; and they are to watch over
40 Repub|        take with them any of their children who are strong enough, that,
41 Repub|         careful in educating their children and in giving them the opportunity
42 Repub|           great the danger is! the children will be lost as well as
43 Repub|         our first step-to make our children spectators of war; but we
44 Repub|           against such chances the children must be at once furnished
45 Repub|           that he may have as many children as possible? ~Agreed. ~Again,
46 Repub|      visage is manly, the fair are children of the gods; and as to the
47 Repub|         are asked at feasts or the children's puzzle about the eunuch
48 Repub|             and the procreation of children, and the appointment of
49 Repub|            the same. The women and children are now disposed of, but
50 Repub|      surely you would not have the children of your ideal State, whom
51 Repub|           Do you remember that the children, too, were to be taken to
52 Repub|           take possession of their children, who will be unaffected
53 Repub|            perfect State wives and children are to be in common; and
54 Repub|         jest with us as if we were children, and to address us in a
55 Repub|          them, and they will bring children into the world when they
56 Repub|      bridegroom out of season, the children will not be goodly or fortunate.
57 Repub|    pleasures and running away like children from the law, their father:
58 Repub|        multiplied into a family of children: and so they make drone
59 Repub|      flower. And just as women and children think a variety of colors
60 Repub|           lest he and his wife and children should be put to death by
61 Repub|   authority which we exercise over children, and the refusal to let
62 Repub|        good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when
63 Repub|       reason deems best; not, like children who have had a fall, keeping
64 Repub|           he said concerning young children dying almost as soon as
65 Repub|           evils, to devour his own children. But when he had time to