Dialogue

 1 Repub|     promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes
 2 Repub|           Proceed. ~I said: "Until philosophers are kings, or the kings
 3 Repub|           we mean when we say that philosophers are to rule in the State;
 4 Repub|      others who are not born to be philosophers, and are meant to be followers
 5 Repub|       strangely out of place among philosophers, for they are the last persons
 6 Repub|           of quite minor arts, are philosophers? ~Certainly not, I replied;
 7 Repub|        said: Who then are the true philosophers? ~Those, I said, who are
 8 Repub|        alone worthy of the name of philosophers. ~How do you distinguish
 9 Repub|             the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared
10 Repub|         next in order. Inasmuch as philosophers only are able to grasp the
11 Repub|          many and variable are not philosophers, I must ask you which of
12 Repub|          not cease from evil until philosophers rule in them, when philosophers
13 Repub|    philosophers rule in them, when philosophers are acknowledged by us to
14 Repub|          surprised at finding that philosophers have no honor in their cities;
15 Repub|            philosophy and upon all philosophers that universal reprobation
16 Repub|         Impossible. ~And therefore philosophers must inevitably fall under
17 Repub|           until the small class of philosophers whom we termed useless but
18 Repub| over-education, you show them your philosophers as they really are and describe
19 Repub|          can be more unbecoming in philosophers than this. ~It is most unbecoming. ~
20 Repub|            our saying, that, until philosophers bear rule, States and individuals
21 Repub|          princes who are by nature philosophers? ~Surely no man, he said. ~
22 Repub|        injustice in compelling our philosophers to have a care and providence
23 Repub|            be common, and the best philosophers and the bravest warriors
24 Repub|           in the fear of admitting philosophers to power, because they are
25 Repub|           At any rate, he replied, philosophers would say that he was not