Dialogue

 1 Repub|      winds or the heat of the sun or any similar causes. ~
 2 Repub|       the heat of a scorching sun, might he not, being an
 3 Repub|      truly than Heracleitus's sun, inasmuch as they never
 4 Repub|      to appear? ~You mean the sun, as you and all mankind
 5 Repub|    which sight resides is the sun? ~No. ~Yet of all the organs
 6 Repub|      eye is the most like the sun? ~By far the most like. ~
 7 Repub|   which is dispensed from the sun? ~Exactly. ~Then the sun
 8 Repub|      sun? ~Exactly. ~Then the sun is not sight, but the author
 9 Repub|   toward objects on which the sun shines, they see clearly
10 Repub|     truly said to be like the sun, and yet not to be the sun,
11 Repub|    sun, and yet not to be the sun, so in this other sphere,
12 Repub|       would you not? that the sun is not only the author of
13 Repub|   about the similitude of the sun. ~Yes, I said, there is
14 Repub|      into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely
15 Repub|      by night better than the sun or the light of the sun
16 Repub|       sun or the light of the sun by day? ~Certainly. ~Last
17 Repub|       will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections
18 Repub|        he would first see the sun and then reason about him. ~
19 Repub|    coming suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old
20 Repub|      light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend
21 Repub|    stars, and last of all the sun himself. And so with dialectic;
22 Repub|    the underground den to the sun, while in his presence they
23 Repub|   plants and the light of the sun, but are able to perceive
24 Repub|       which compared with the sun is only an image)-this power
25 Repub|    would soon enough make the sun and the heavens, and the
26 Repub| spangled, and the seventh (or sun) is brightest; the eighth (