Dialogue

 1 Repub|  deficient either in virtue or beauty. ~Very true, Adeimantus;
 2 Repub|      on the style? ~Yes. ~Then beauty of style and harmony and
 3 Repub|        good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works,
 4 Repub| likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason. ~There can be
 5 Repub| Whereas true love is a love of beauty and order-temperate and
 6 Repub|       music if not the love of beauty? ~I agree, he said. ~After
 7 Repub|      virtue is the health, and beauty, and well-being of the soul,
 8 Repub|    than to be a deceiver about beauty, or goodness, or justice,
 9 Repub|        will not be a vision of beauty, any more than the enthusiastic
10 Repub|       proposition? ~That since beauty is the opposite of ugliness,
11 Repub|      seeing or loving absolute beauty. ~True, he replied. ~Few
12 Repub|       has no sense of absolute beauty, or who, if another lead
13 Repub|     him to a knowledge of that beauty is unable to follow-of such
14 Repub|      the existence of absolute beauty and is able to distinguish
15 Repub|        or unchangeable idea of beauty -in whose opinion the beautiful
16 Repub|       yet neither see absolute beauty, nor can follow any guide
17 Repub|      the existence of absolute beauty. ~Yes, I remember. ~Shall
18 Repub|        to order the laws about beauty, goodness, justice in this,
19 Repub|      the existence of absolute beauty rather than of the many
20 Repub|        at absolute justice and beauty and temperance, and again
21 Repub|      see them in their perfect beauty must take a longer and more
22 Repub|       may appear in their full beauty and utmost clearness, how
23 Repub|        we have no knowledge of beauty and goodness? ~Assuredly
24 Repub|     tell you of brightness and beauty? ~Still, I must implore
25 Repub|       And there is an absolute beauty and an absolute good, and
26 Repub|      higher. ~What a wonder of beauty that must be, he said, which
27 Repub|      and yet surpasses them in beauty; for you surely cannot mean
28 Repub|        higher knowledge; their beauty is like the beauty of figures
29 Repub|       their beauty is like the beauty of figures or pictures excellently
30 Repub|     our governors faultless in beauty. ~Yes, I said, Glaucon,
31 Repub|    used to play amid things of beauty and make of them a joy and
32 Repub|       propriety of life and in beauty and virtue? ~Immeasurably
33 Repub|       is by receiving gifts of beauty, strength, and health, in
34 Repub|          And the excellence or beauty or truth of every structure,
35 Repub|     understanding-there is the beauty of them-and the apparent
36 Repub|  original purity; and then her beauty will be revealed, and justice
37 Repub|       visions of inconceivable beauty. The story, Glaucon, would
38 Repub|      famous for their form and beauty as well as for their strength
39 Repub|        know what the effect of beauty is when combined with poverty