Dialogue

 1 Repub|      know in which of the three classes you would place justice? ~
 2 Repub|         we are determining what classes of subjects are or are not
 3 Repub|    noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion
 4 Repub|      the offspring of the lower classes, when naturally superior.
 5 Repub|         the smallest of all the classes who receive a name from
 6 Repub| ordained by nature to be of all classes the least. ~Most true. ~
 7 Repub|        there are three distinct classes, any meddling of one with
 8 Repub|       to be just when the three classes in the State severally did
 9 Repub|         qualities of these same classes? ~True, he said. ~And so
10 Repub|    these you would refer to the classes already mentioned. You would
11 Repub|     State was composed of three classes, traders, auxiliaries, counsellors,
12 Repub|  consisted in each of the three classes doing the work of its own
13 Repub|        ask you which of the two classes should be the rulers of
14 Repub|         seen. Now there are two classes of persons: one class of
15 Repub|        what manner will the two classes of auxiliaries and rulers
16 Repub|     just comparison. ~These two classes are the plagues of every
17 Repub|        indeed it is, into three classes; for in the first place
18 Repub|   assuming that there are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom,
19 Repub|        if you examine the three classes of men, and ask of them
20 Repub|      that which has more. ~What classes of things have a greater