Dialogue

 1 Repub|         without end? Or have the arts to look only after their
 2 Repub|      horse; neither do any other arts care for themselves, for
 3 Repub|        surely, Thrasymachus, the arts are the superiors and rulers
 4 Repub|    question: Are not the several arts different, by reason of
 5 Repub|          confuse this with other arts, any more than the art of
 6 Repub|    artists from their respective arts. But the truth is, that
 7 Repub|          art of pay. The various arts may be doing their own business
 8 Repub|    longer any doubt that neither arts nor governments provide
 9 Repub|          to take the case of the arts: you would admit that one
10 Repub|         a small cost; with magic arts and incantations binding
11 Repub|       and clothes and shoes; the arts of the painter and the embroiderer
12 Repub|         man cannot practise many arts with success. ~Very true,
13 Repub|                    BOOK III: THE ARTS IN EDUCATION~(SOCRATES,
14 Repub|  building and the other creative arts; and is he who cannot conform
15 Repub|     always being opened; and the arts of the doctor and the lawyer
16 Repub|    descendants in valetudinarian arts, the omission arose, not
17 Repub|  carpentering and the mechanical arts, does not equally stand
18 Repub|       said. ~Neither are the two arts of music and gymnastics
19 Repub|       say, has given mankind two arts answering to them (and only
20 Repub|         the deterioration of the arts. ~What are they? ~Wealth,
21 Repub|        this is true of the other arts and sciences? ~Yes. ~Now,
22 Repub|          art of war one of those arts in which she can or cannot
23 Repub|        to any of the pursuits or arts of civic life, the nature
24 Repub|    better. ~And this is what the arts of music and gymnastics,
25 Repub|         you never observe in the arts how the potters' boys look
26 Repub|        professors of quite minor arts, are philosophers? ~Certainly
27 Repub|        is not to be found in the arts. And many are thus attracted
28 Repub|         gifted few who leave the arts, which they justly despise,
29 Repub|          geometry and the sister arts. ~And when I speak of the
30 Repub|          than the notions of the arts, as they are termed, which
31 Repub|     nature; since all the useful arts were reckoned mean by us? ~
32 Repub| gymnastics are excluded, and the arts are also excluded, what
33 Repub|            A something which all arts and sciences and intelligences
34 Repub|          calculation: do not all arts and sciences necessarily
35 Repub|         study and pursuit of the arts which have been described. ~
36 Repub|          its own nature; for the arts in general are concerned
37 Repub|      mean employments and manual arts a reproach? Only because
38 Repub|        he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist,
39 Repub|          a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that
40 Repub|         their head, know all the arts and all things human, virtue
41 Repub|          medicine, or any of the arts to which his poems only
42 Repub|         about medicine and other arts at second-hand; but we have
43 Repub|        of his, applicable to the arts or to human life, such as
44 Repub|        the colors of the several arts, himself understanding their
45 Repub|      What? ~That there are three arts which are concerned with
46 Repub|      like magic. ~True. ~And the arts of measuring and numbering
47 Repub|        of a woman cunning in the arts; and far away among the