Dialogue

 1 Repub|    mean when I say that in all States there is the same principle
 2 Repub|          But are the rulers of States absolutely infallible, or
 3 Repub|     imagine that the rulers of States, if they are true rulers,
 4 Repub|       think that the rulers in States, that is to say, the true
 5 Repub|     have the power of subduing States and nations; but perhaps
 6 Repub|    attempting to enslave other States, or may have already enslaved
 7 Repub|      salesmen. In well-ordered States they are commonly those
 8 Repub|        almost all the evils in States, private as well as public. ~
 9 Repub|       and injustice grow up in States? for we do not want either
10 Repub|       that in all well-ordered States every individual has an
11 Repub|    State if the wealth of many States were to be gathered into
12 Repub|        ought to speak of other States in the plural number; not
13 Repub|        will be the greatest of States, I do not mean to say in
14 Repub|     you praise the behavior of States which act like the men whom
15 Repub|      are there not ill-ordered States in which the citizens are
16 Repub|    good statesman-do not these States resemble the persons whom
17 Repub| describing? ~Yes, he said; the States are as bad as the men; and
18 Repub|     with itself and with other States? ~There certainly is. ~And
19 Repub|        rule of either, both in States and individuals. ~I entirely
20 Repub|    this quality, when found in States, is not derived from the
21 Repub|        makes such men and such States is justice, or do you hope
22 Repub|       to their rulers in other States? ~Generally they call them
23 Repub|     masters, but in democratic States they simply call them rulers. ~
24 Repub|        they call them in other States? ~Slaves. ~And what do the
25 Repub|      call one another in other States? ~Fellow-rulers. ~And what
26 Repub|      far more so than in other States. ~And the reason of this,
27 Repub|        should enslave Hellenic States, or allow others to enslave
28 Repub|     show what is that fault in States which is the cause of their
29 Repub|       are treated in their own States is so grievous that no single
30 Repub|        of the greatest evil to States and individuals; and also
31 Repub|    either to individuals or to States. ~That is most true, he
32 Repub|  unhesitatingly I declare that States should pursue philosophy,
33 Repub|        that neither cities nor States nor individuals will ever
34 Repub|   nature generally, whether in States or individuals, into that
35 Repub|        philosophers bear rule, States and individuals will have
36 Repub|  explain to them that in other States, men of their class are
37 Repub|    spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with
38 Repub| discernment of such qualities, States and individuals unconsciously
39 Repub|     For we cannot suppose that States are made of "oak and rock,"
40 Repub|       them? ~Yes, he said, the States are as the men are; they
41 Repub|        if the constitutions of States are five, the dispositions
42 Repub|      and to go through all the States and all the characters of
43 Repub|      State is not one, but two States, the one of poor, the other
44 Repub|      said, and in oligarchical States do you not find paupers? ~
45 Repub|    clear. ~And in oligarchical States, from the general spread
46 Repub|    likely to be the fairest of States, being like an embroidered
47 Repub|    appear to be the fairest of States. ~Yes. ~Yes, my good sir,
48 Repub|  excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only
49 Repub|       be the most miserable of States? ~And I was right, he said. ~
50 Repub|   pleasant, but also useful to States and to human life, and we
51 Repub|   which the education of noble States has implanted in us, and
52 Repub|    health; and there were mean states also. And here, my dear