Dialogue

 1 Repub|            light burden, nor can a bad rich man ever have peace
 2 Repub|            And hence they are very bad company, for they can talk
 3 Repub|         nature has friends who are bad friends, and in that case
 4 Repub|            are our friends and the bad our enemies? ~Yes. ~And
 5 Repub|      horseman by his art make them bad horsemen? ~Impossible. ~
 6 Repub|           good by virtue make them bad? ~Assuredly not. ~Any more
 7 Repub|          as far as he is wise, and bad in as far as he is foolish? ~
 8 Repub|           suppose so. ~Whereas the bad and ignorant will desire
 9 Repub| illustrious father, that was not a bad beginning of the elegiac
10 Repub|            is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers
11 Repub|          lie, and, what is more, a bad lie. ~But when is this fault
12 Repub|            Uranus, and which was a bad lie too-I mean what Hesiod
13 Repub|      scaring their children with a bad version of these myths-telling
14 Repub|          they are likely to have a bad effect on those who hear
15 Repub|         myself apprehended. Like a bad speaker, therefore, I will
16 Repub|          must not. ~And surely not bad men, whether cowards or
17 Repub|            or women who are mad or bad; for madness, like vice,
18 Repub|            be; nothing will be too bad for him: and he will be
19 Repub|            is an effect of good or bad rhythm. ~None at all. ~And
20 Repub|             And also that good and bad rhythm naturally assimilate
21 Repub|           assimilate to a good and bad style; and that harmony
22 Repub|          justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his
23 Repub|           guilty of coarseness and bad taste. ~I quite agree, he
24 Repub|            proof can there be of a bad and disgraceful state of
25 Repub|         but is actually led by his bad taste to pride himself on
26 Repub|            constitutions, good and bad? and are not the best judges
27 Repub|           at the same time, as the bad are more numerous than the
28 Repub|            said; the States are as bad as the men; and I am very
29 Repub|            little, nor of good nor bad, nor of any particular kind
30 Repub|          and when not corrupted by bad education is the natural
31 Repub|          and may be said to have a bad appetite and not a good
32 Repub|        asking why are the majority bad, which question of necessity
33 Repub| ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Do not great crimes and
34 Repub|            to admit that there are bad pleasures as well as good. ~
35 Repub|      therefore to acknowledge that bad and good are the same? ~
36 Repub|         that all mere opinions are bad, and the best of them blind?
37 Repub|     relates to it is apt to have a bad name with the rest of the
38 Repub|          being not originally of a bad nature, but having kept
39 Repub|            nature, but having kept bad company, is at last brought
40 Repub|           defect which is quite as bad. ~What defect? ~The inevitable
41 Repub|             surely, is at least as bad. ~Another discreditable
42 Repub|            honesty, he coerces his bad passions by an enforced
43 Repub|           dwell only with the many bad, and to be by them hated,
44 Repub|           are blamed for pride and bad temper when the lion and
45 Repub|           to the maker the good or bad qualities which develop
46 Repub|         what makes a thing good or bad, and may be expected therefore
47 Repub|            is concerned is good or bad. ~By all means. ~We may
48 Repub|            they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they
49 Repub|     whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will anyone be
50 Repub|        decomposition, or any other bad quality, when confined to