Dialogue

 1 Repub|             in all respects be like a god among men. Then the actions
 2 Repub|            blameless king who, like a god, Maintains justice; to whom
 3 Repub|              of this kind, I replied: God is always to be represented
 4 Repub|               only? ~Assuredly. ~Then God, if he be good, is not the
 5 Repub|           good is to be attributed to God alone; of the evils the
 6 Repub|            words of AEschylus, that ~"God plants guilt among men when
 7 Repub|           that these are the works of God, or if they are of God,
 8 Repub|             of God, or if they are of God, he must devise some explanation
 9 Repub|             seeking: he must say that God did what was just and right,
10 Repub|               are miserable, and that God is the author of their misery-the
11 Repub|             receiving punishment from God; but that God being good
12 Repub|         punishment from God; but that God being good is the author
13 Repub|              expected to conform-that God is not the author of all
14 Repub|               Shall I ask you whether God is a magician, and of a
15 Repub|           without? ~True. ~But surely God and the things of God are
16 Repub|          surely God and the things of God are in every way perfect? ~
17 Repub|           then, would anyone, whether God or man, desire to make himself
18 Repub|            Then it is impossible that God should ever be willing to
19 Repub|            that is conceivable, every God remains absolutely and forever
20 Repub|              but can you imagine that God will be willing to lie,
21 Repub|             of these reasons apply to God? Can we suppose that he
22 Repub|               no place in our idea of God? ~I should say not. ~Or
23 Repub|             person can be a friend of God. ~Then no motive can be
24 Repub|            motive can be imagined why God should lie? ~None whatever. ~
25 Repub|             falsehood? ~Yes. ~Then is God perfectly simple and true
26 Repub|            any other hero or son of a god daring to do such impious
27 Repub|             they were not the sons of God; both in the same breath
28 Repub|              invoked the anger of the god against the Achaeans. Now
29 Repub|              brought, and respect the god. Thus he spoke, and the
30 Repub|             staff and chaplets of the god should be of no avail to
31 Repub|            tears by the arrows of the god"-and so on. In this way
32 Repub|             he is seeking to persuade God by prayer, or man by instruction
33 Repub|                if he was the son of a god, we maintain that he was
34 Repub|               he was not the son of a god. ~All that, Socrates, is
35 Repub|               the philosophical, some god, as I should say, has given
36 Repub|           tale, you are brothers, yet God has framed you differently.
37 Repub|              parent a golden son. And God proclaims as a first principle
38 Repub|              them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within
39 Repub|            Yes, I said, my friend, if God will only preserve to them
40 Repub|           replied; but to Apollo, the god of Delphi, there remains
41 Repub|            ancestral deity. He is the god who sits in the centre,
42 Repub|           good either at the hands of God or of man? Are these to
43 Repub|      authority. ~We must learn of the god how we are to order the
44 Repub|               unless commanded by the god himself? ~Very true. ~Again,
45 Repub|             who are his kindred? ~The god of jealousy himself, he
46 Repub|              is saved by the power of God, as we may truly say. ~I
47 Repub|              the form and likeness of God. ~Very true, he said. ~And
48 Repub|              agreeable to the ways of God? ~Indeed, he said, in no
49 Repub|           that pleasure is the good? ~God forbid, I replied; but may
50 Repub| expressed-whether rightly or wrongly, God knows. But, whether true
51 Repub|               Just so, Socrates. ~And God has made the flying drones,
52 Repub|               never have made a blind god director of his chorus,
53 Repub|              slaves, carried off by a god into the wilderness, where
54 Repub|        himself. ~And suppose the same god, who carried him away, to
55 Repub|             the man, or rather to the god in man? and the ignoble
56 Repub|              nature, which is made by God, as I think that we may
57 Repub|         artists who superintend them: God, the maker of the bed, and
58 Repub|             there are three of them. ~God, whether from choice or
59 Repub|              nor ever will be made by God. ~Why is that? ~Because
60 Repub|         others. ~Very true, he said. ~God knew this, and he desired
61 Repub|            become just and to be like God, as far as man can attain
62 Repub|                he said; if he is like God he will surely not be neglected