Dialogue

 1 Repub|         that time which the poets call the "threshold of old age":
 2 Repub|     subjects-and that is what you call justice? ~Doubtless. ~Then
 3 Repub|       said. Do you suppose that I call him who is mistaken the
 4 Repub|        view about them? Would you call one of them virtue and the
 5 Repub|          I suppose that you would call justice virtue and injustice
 6 Repub|           replied. ~And would you call justice vice? ~No, I would
 7 Repub|       simplicity. ~Then would you call injustice malignity? ~No;
 8 Repub|          I perceive that you will call injustice honorable and
 9 Repub|           they are quite ready to call wicked men happy, and to
10 Repub|        dead; the latter sort they call mysteries, and they redeem
11 Repub|         again, when those whom we call our friends in a fit of
12 Repub|       comedy-did you not just now call them imitations? ~Yes, I
13 Repub|          of the other; and this I call theft. Now you understand
14 Repub|     however, which I would rather call, not, great, but sufficient
15 Repub|          real and false dangers I call and maintain to be courage,
16 Repub|       which a man reasons, we may call the rational principle of
17 Repub|           he replied. ~And him we call wise who has in him that
18 Repub|    impairs this condition he will call unjust action, and the opinion
19 Repub|         who was then married will call all the male children who
20 Repub|          daughters, and they will call him father, and he will
21 Repub|           him father, and he will call their children his grandchildren,
22 Repub|      grandchildren, and they will call the elder generation grandfathers
23 Repub|           True. ~All of whom will call one another citizens? ~Of
24 Repub|           States? ~Generally they call them masters, but in democratic
25 Repub|     democratic States they simply call them rulers. ~And in our
26 Repub|            And what do the rulers call the people? ~Their maintainers
27 Repub| foster-fathers. ~And what do they call them in other States? ~Slaves. ~
28 Repub|            And what do the rulers call one another in other States? ~
29 Repub|       thing which they will alike call "my own," and having this
30 Repub|      their persons which they can call their own, suits and complaints
31 Repub|        one another, and each will call the other father, brother,
32 Repub|    hearing, for example, I should call faculties. Have I clearly
33 Repub|      sphere and the same result I call the same faculty, but that
34 Repub|       sphere and another result I call different. Would that be
35 Repub|     discovered something which we call opinion? ~There has. ~Then
36 Repub|          discovered, we may truly call the subject of opinion,
37 Repub|      other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but
38 Repub|        individuals, whom the many call Sophists and whom they deem
39 Repub|             And this is he whom I call the child of the good, whom
40 Repub|          condensed notes, as they call them; they put their ears
41 Repub|     replied, which I would rather call useful; that is, if sought
42 Repub|         is the progress which you call dialectic? ~True. ~But the
43 Repub|           two for opinion, and to call the first division science,
44 Repub|  aristocracy, and whom we rightly call just and good, we have already
45 Repub|         enemy; or, if they do not call them out in the hour of
46 Repub|          then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously
47 Repub|            And may we not rightly call such men treacherous? ~No
48 Repub|          fame? ~True. ~Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious-would
49 Repub|          of pleasure? Does he not call the other pleasures necessary,
50 Repub|           unless he have a divine call. ~I understand; you mean
51 Repub|         bed? ~Yes. ~But would you call the painter a creator and
52 Repub|            Good, I said; then you call him who is third in the
53 Repub|       have enough of them, we may call irrational, useless, and
54 Repub|        There is a thing which you call good and another which you
55 Repub|        good and another which you call evil? ~Yes, he replied. ~