Dialogue

 1 Repub|       mean, in the first place, shadows, and in the second place,
 2 Repub|         or make, and which have shadows and reflections in water
 3 Repub|        the objects of which the shadows below are resemblances in
 4 Repub|       having in relation to the shadows and reflections of them
 5 Repub|        third, and perception of shadows to the last-and let there
 6 Repub|                    BOOK VII: ON SHADOWS AND REALITIES IN EDUCATION~(
 7 Repub|         they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another,
 8 Repub|       their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the
 9 Repub|       they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed
10 Repub|         they would only see the shadows? ~Yes, he said. ~And if
11 Repub|       literally nothing but the shadows of the images. ~That is
12 Repub|    former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone
13 Repub|      Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are
14 Repub|       And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections
15 Repub| quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them
16 Repub|        compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had
17 Repub|         about the images or the shadows of images of justice, and
18 Repub|    fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted
19 Repub|      their translation from the shadows to the images and to the
20 Repub|        are divine), and are the shadows of true existence (not shadows
21 Repub|  shadows of true existence (not shadows of images cast by a light
22 Repub|        the fourth perception of shadows, opinion being concerned
23 Repub|        ing to the perception of shadows." ~But let us defer the
24 Repub|    otherwise? For they are mere shadows and pictures of the true,