Dialogue

 1 Repub|       evils their old age is the cause. But to me, Socrates, these
 2 Repub|          For if old age were the cause, I too, being old, and every
 3 Repub|        be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but
 4 Repub|        as far as he can be. ~The cause of all this, Socrates, was
 5 Repub|          which does no evil be a cause of evil? ~Impossible. ~And
 6 Repub|          Yes. ~And therefore the cause of well-being? ~Yes. ~It
 7 Repub|         that the good is not the cause of all things, but of the
 8 Repub|       many assert, but he is the cause of a few things only, and
 9 Repub|       stern resolve, or when his cause is failing, and he is going
10 Repub| miserable, and that they are the cause of their own unhappiness;
11 Repub|        that this is the ultimate cause and condition of the existence
12 Repub|           Yes. ~And just actions cause justice, and unjust actions
13 Repub|      justice, and unjust actions cause injustice? ~That is certain. ~
14 Repub|     fault in States which is the cause of their present maladministration,
15 Repub|           if I am to plead their cause, I must have recourse to
16 Repub|          you will deem to be the cause of science, and of truth
17 Repub|         and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and
18 Repub|        when there is no external cause. ~Yes, surely. ~And then
19 Repub|         forgotten. ~Then, as the cause is decided, I demand on
20 Repub|        were any who had been the cause of many deaths, or had betrayed