Dialogue

 1 Repub|         be receivers of gifts or lovers of money. ~Certainly not. ~
 2 Repub|          sort of necessity which lovers know, and which is far more
 3 Repub| civilized. ~And will they not be lovers of Hellas, and think of
 4 Repub|           And what do you say of lovers of wine? Do you not see
 5 Repub|       title to the name. All the lovers of sights have a delight
 6 Repub|           Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth. ~
 7 Repub|  distinguish them? he said. ~The lovers of sounds and sights, I
 8 Repub|      impropriety in calling them lovers of opinion rather than lovers
 9 Repub|    lovers of opinion rather than lovers of wisdom, and will they
10 Repub|      each thing are to be called lovers of wisdom and not lovers
11 Repub|         lovers of wisdom and not lovers of opinion. ~Assuredly. ~
12 Repub|       let us agree that they are lovers of all true being; there
13 Repub|   remember, that they were to be lovers of their country, tried
14 Repub|       who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they
15 Repub|         are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight. ~No
16 Repub|      mass of the citizens become lovers of money. ~Likely enough. ~
17 Repub| contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they
18 Repub|         of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain? ~
19 Repub|         wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain? ~Exactly. ~And
20 Repub|      confidently assert that the lovers of money and honor, when
21 Repub|         of her defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets
22 Repub|      must we after the manner of lovers give her up, though not