Dialogue

 1 Repub|      is appointed has also an excellence? Need I ask again whether
 2 Repub|        And has not the eye an excellence? ~Yes. ~And the ear has
 3 Repub|     the ear has an end and an excellence also? ~True. ~And the same
 4 Repub|     them an end and a special excellence? ~That is so. ~Well, and
 5 Repub|   wanting in their own proper excellence and have a defect instead? ~
 6 Repub|   they have lost their proper excellence, which is sight; but I have
 7 Repub|      them by their own proper excellence, and fail of fulfilling
 8 Repub|  deprived of their own proper excellence they cannot fulfil their
 9 Repub|       And has not the soul an excellence also? ~Yes. ~And can she
10 Repub|    ends when deprived of that excellence? ~She cannot. ~Then an evil
11 Repub|  admitted that justice is the excellence of the soul, and injustice
12 Repub|       good body by any bodily excellence improves the soul, but,
13 Repub|     the good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far
14 Repub|       contributes most to the excellence of the State, whether the
15 Repub|     that all men are equal in excellence, or is one man better than
16 Repub| imitates them? ~Yes. ~And the excellence or beauty or truth of every
17 Repub|       the same, but about the excellence or badness of it the maker
18 Repub|    and are in raptures at the excellence of the poet who stirs our