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Dialogue
1 Repub| man old age cannot be a light burden, nor can a bad rich 2 Repub| examine further, for no light matter is at stake, nothing 3 Repub| any of his deeds come to light, and who can force his way 4 Repub| like bees on the wing, light on every flower, and from 5 Repub| may be expected to throw light on the greater inquiry which 6 Repub| requiring only that they should light a fire, and not involving 7 Repub| has been made habitable, light a candle and search, and 8 Repub| justice should be brought to light and temperance lost sight 9 Repub| together may possibly strike a light in which justice will shine 10 Repub| into being from seeing the light; and if any force a way 11 Repub| possibility of life and behold the light of day." Such was the thought, 12 Repub| great and small, heavy and light, as they are termed, will 13 Repub| not-being, or more full of light and existence than being. ~ 14 Repub| inasmuch as they never light up again. ~But what ought 15 Repub| they view him in this new light, they will surely change 16 Repub| Of that which you term light, I replied. ~True, he said. ~ 17 Repub| difference of nature; for light is their bond, and light 18 Repub| light is their bond, and light is no ignoble thing? ~Nay, 19 Repub| this element? Whose is that light which makes the eye to see 20 Repub| toward objects on which the light of day is no longer shining, 21 Repub| in the previous instance, light and sight may be truly said 22 Repub| ludicrous earnestness: By the light of heaven, how amazing! ~ 23 Repub| a mouth open toward the light and reaching all along the 24 Repub| walk and look toward the light, he will suffer sharp pains; 25 Repub| to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain 26 Repub| When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, 27 Repub| then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars 28 Repub| better than the sun or the light of the sun by day? ~Certainly. ~ 29 Repub| another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the 30 Repub| the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, 31 Repub| beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light 32 Repub| light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and 33 Repub| either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, 34 Repub| light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind' 35 Repub| is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one 36 Repub| comes from below into the light, there will be more reason 37 Repub| returns from above out of the light into the den. ~That, he 38 Repub| to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, 39 Repub| another in the heavenly light? ~Impossible, he answered; 40 Repub| distance, and by painting in light and shade. ~No, I said, 41 Repub| again, is the meaning of light and heavy, if that which 42 Repub| heavy, if that which is light is also heavy, and that 43 Repub| and that which is heavy, light? ~Yes, he said, these intimations 44 Repub| thinking mind, intending to light up the chaos, was compelled 45 Repub| would some day emerge into light. ~Yes, he said, there is 46 Repub| discovery of the absolute by the light of reason only, and without 47 Repub| to the images and to the light, and the ascent from the 48 Repub| animals and plants and the light of the sun, but are able 49 Repub| shadows of images cast by a light of fire, which compared 50 Repub| faculty which is the very light of the body to the sight 51 Repub| the soul to the universal light which lightens all things, 52 Repub| which may, I think, throw a light upon this subject. ~What 53 Repub| which exaggerates both light and shade, and so they implant 54 Repub| Suppose now that by the light of the examples just offered 55 Repub| conjuring and of deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenious 56 Repub| argument of which you make so light. Listen, then. ~I am attending. ~ 57 Repub| see from above a line of light, straight as a column, extending 58 Repub| there, in the midst of the light, they saw the ends of the 59 Repub| down from above: for this light is the belt of heaven, and 60 Repub| colored by the reflected light of the seventh; the second 61 Repub| Venus) has the whitest light; the fourth (Mars) is reddish;