Dialogue

 1 Repub|      not wanted, but allowed to lie? ~Precisely. ~That is to
 2 Repub|   market, or go into houses and lie with anyone at his pleasure,
 3 Repub|  attempts in the right way, and lie hidden if he means to be
 4 Repub|   comfortable are accustomed to lie on sofas, and dine off tables,
 5 Repub|          the fault of telling a lie, and, what is more, a bad
 6 Repub|        and, what is more, a bad lie. ~But when is this fault
 7 Repub|     Uranus, and which was a bad lie too-I mean what Hesiod says
 8 Repub|         saying that two casks ~"Lie at the threshold of Zeus,
 9 Repub|     that God will be willing to lie, whether in word or deed,
10 Repub|     know, I said, that the true lie, if such an expression may
11 Repub|          he is most afraid of a lie having possession of him. ~
12 Repub|         to have and to hold the lie, is what mankind least like; -
13 Repub| deceived may be called the true lie; for the lie in words is
14 Repub|    called the true lie; for the lie in words is only a kind
15 Repub|      Perfectly right. ~The true lie is hated not only by the
16 Repub|         men? ~Yes. ~Whereas the lie in words is in certain cases
17 Repub|        Or perhaps he may tell a lie because he is afraid of
18 Repub|         imagined why God should lie? ~None whatever. ~Then the
19 Repub|        if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods,
20 Repub|     citizens, may be allowed to lie for the public good. But
21 Repub| privilege, for a private man to lie to them in return is to
22 Repub|     into the hut, but wanted to lie with her on the ground,
23 Repub|     lately spoke-just one royal lie which may deceive the rulers,
24 Repub|         the city? ~What sort of lie? he said. ~Nothing new,
25 Repub|      said, to be ashamed of the lie which you were going to
26 Repub|      thing would appear also to lie in the interval between
27 Repub|          And will the love of a lie be any part of a philosopher'
28 Repub|      Will he not utterly hate a lie? ~He will. ~And when truth
29 Repub|        easy or not, herein will lie the difference between them