Dialogue

 1 Repub| Thrasymachus-whether we live better or worse from not knowing what you
 2 Repub|              to be ruled by one who is worse than himself. And the fear
 3 Repub|          better and fairer, or for the worse and more unsightly? ~If
 4 Repub|                can only change for the worse, for we cannot suppose him
 5 Repub|                 desire to make himself worse? ~Impossible. ~Then it is
 6 Repub|           heart, Endure, my heart; far worse hast thou endured!" ~Certainly,
 7 Repub|             narrate anything, and, the worse he is, the more unscrupulous
 8 Repub|                of harmony the flute is worse than all the stringed instruments
 9 Repub|              will be that he becomes a worse potter? ~Yes; he greatly
10 Repub|           there is a better and also a worse principle; and when the
11 Repub|                when the better has the worse under control, then a man
12 Repub|                the greater mass of the worse -in this case he is blamed
13 Repub|               the better part over the worse. ~Yes, he said, I see that
14 Repub|           reasons about the better and worse to be different from the
15 Repub|             Would a painter be any the worse because, after having delineated
16 Repub|         existed? ~He would be none the worse. ~Well, and were we not
17 Repub|             sure. ~And is our theory a worse theory because we are unable
18 Repub|                and there cannot be any worse fault in a guardian of the
19 Repub|                ought we to give them a worse life, when they might have
20 Repub|                 for they take away the worse and leave the better part,
21 Repub|                 His case will be still worse, if you suppose him to be
22 Repub|               the actual tyrant lead a worse life than he whose life
23 Repub|                saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes
24 Repub|                honorable, or better or worse, but which is the more pleasant
25 Repub|            bribe in order to compass a worse ruin." ~Yes, said Glaucon,
26 Repub|        baseness, which will make him a worse man, even though he acquire
27 Repub|                is undetected only gets worse, whereas he who is detected
28 Repub|            pursuits make men better or worse in private or public life,
29 Repub|                better and which is the worse; and so he will choose,
30 Repub|               to others and suffer yet worse himself; but let him know