Dialogue

 1 Repub|        higher the duties of the guardian, I said, the more time and
 2 Repub|        by them. ~Well, and your guardian must be brave if he is to
 3 Repub|       which are required in the guardian. ~True. ~And also of the
 4 Repub|           He will not be a good guardian who is wanting in either
 5 Repub|         infer that to be a good guardian is impossible. ~I am afraid
 6 Repub|         nature in our finding a guardian who has a similar combination
 7 Repub|        he who is fitted to be a guardian, besides the spirited nature,
 8 Repub|         a really good and noble guardian of the State will require
 9 Repub|        us; for of all persons a guardian should be the last to get
10 Repub|       is. ~Yes, he said; that a guardian should require another guardian
11 Repub| guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous
12 Repub|        be appointed a ruler and guardian of the State; he shall be
13 Repub|           And perhaps the word "guardian" in the fullest sense ought
14 Repub|          the auxiliary, and the guardian each do their own business,
15 Repub|       will have the temper of a guardian, and another not. Was not
16 Repub|      the qualities which make a guardian; they differ only in their
17 Repub|        which makes a man a good guardian will make a woman a good
18 Repub|        will make a woman a good guardian; for their original nature
19 Repub|     think or speak of any other guardian as a stranger? ~Certainly
20 Repub|      that he will cease to be a guardian, and is not content with
21 Repub|        be any question that the guardian who is to keep anything
22 Repub|         to say-that the perfect guardian must be a philosopher. ~
23 Repub|         be any worse fault in a guardian of the State and of the
24 Repub|        of the laws. ~True. ~The guardian then, I said, must be required
25 Repub|        good will be but a sorry guardian of them; and I suspect that
26 Repub|           And if we only have a guardian who has this knowledge,
27 Repub|       and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible
28 Repub|          That is true. ~And our guardian is both warrior and philosopher? ~
29 Repub|     appointed who have lost the guardian power of testing the metal
30 Repub|    virtue, having lost his best guardian. ~Who was that? said Adeimantus. ~
31 Repub|        a parricide, and a cruel guardian of an aged parent; and this
32 Repub|        set up in their hearts a guardian and ruler like our own,
33 Repub|     severally chosen, to be the guardian of their lives and the fulfiller