Dialogue

 1 Repub|      is useful when money is useless? ~That is the inference. ~
 2 Repub|      is useful when they are useless, and useless when they are
 3 Repub|   when they are useless, and useless when they are useful? ~That
 4 Repub|     we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful
 5 Repub|       instead of brittle and useless. But, if he carries on the
 6 Repub|    the former they are quite useless, and in the latter there
 7 Repub|    the best of them are made useless to the world by the very
 8 Repub| votaries of philosophy to be useless to the rest of the world,
 9 Repub|     rogues, and the best are useless; in which opinion I agreed. ~
10 Repub|      reason why the good are useless has now been explained? ~
11 Repub|      some of them manifestly useless, and the greater number
12 Repub|    those who were said to be useless but not wicked-and, when
13 Repub|  philosophers whom we termed useless but not corrupt are providentially
14 Repub|      other hand, hurtful and useless. Did you never observe the
15 Repub| appearance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit
16 Repub| pursued in any other spirit, useless. Very true, he said. ~Now,
17 Repub|     this sort of training is useless for any other purpose; for
18 Repub|   freedom and libertinism of useless and unnecessary pleasures. ~
19 Repub|      we may call irrational, useless, and cowardly? ~Indeed,