Dialogue

 1 Repub|      when you admitted that the ruler was not infallible, but
 2 Repub|   artists. No artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he
 3 Repub|          we should say that the ruler, in so far as he is a ruler,
 4 Repub|     ruler, in so far as he is a ruler, is unerring, and, being
 5 Repub|         sense do you speak of a ruler or stronger whose interest,
 6 Repub| inferior should execute-is he a ruler in the popular or in the
 7 Repub|        true physician is also a ruler having the human body as
 8 Repub|         sense of the term, is a ruler of sailors, and not a mere
 9 Repub| admitted. ~And such a pilot and ruler will provide and prescribe
10 Repub|      and not for his own or the ruler's interest? ~He gave a reluctant "
11 Repub|       who, in so far as he is a ruler, considers or enjoins what
12 Repub|        say, the interest of the ruler and stronger, and the loss
13 Repub|       saying just now about the ruler. I conceived that the art
14 Repub|   conceived that the art of the ruler, considered as a ruler,
15 Repub|      the ruler, considered as a ruler, whether in a State or in
16 Repub|       plain proof that the true ruler is not meant by nature to
17 Repub|     must necessarily be an evil ruler and superintendent, and
18 Repub|        and the good soul a good ruler? ~Yes, necessarily. ~And
19 Repub|         he said. ~If, then, the ruler catches anybody beside himself
20 Repub|      pure, shall be appointed a ruler and guardian of the State;
21 Repub|       ranks, and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful toward
22 Repub|     slave and freeman, artisan, ruler, subject-the quality, I
23 Repub|         in any other State of a ruler who would speak of one of
24 Repub|      who is able to govern. The ruler who is good for anything
25 Repub|        Yes, one is enough. ~The ruler may impose the laws and
26 Repub|        s fire, was to be made a ruler, and to receive honors and
27 Repub|      better life than that of a ruler, and then you may have a
28 Repub|      err; and the State makes a ruler, and the individual a friend,
29 Repub|         honor; claiming to be a ruler, not because he is eloquent,
30 Repub|        the rich man, and make a ruler of him, and dishonor the
31 Repub|         in truth he was neither ruler nor subject, but just a
32 Repub|      you say, he seemed to be a ruler, but was only a spendthrift. ~
33 Repub|        is a pauper who is not a ruler. ~And may we be so bold
34 Repub|     their hearts a guardian and ruler like our own, and when this
35 Repub|      you mean that he will be a ruler in the city of which we