Dialogue

 1 Repub|    shall unite the offices of judge and advocate in our own
 2 Repub|     For a young person cannot judge what is allegorical and
 3 Repub|       to do without a napping judge is a far higher and nobler
 4 Repub|        he said. ~But with the judge it is otherwise; since he
 5 Repub|        Therefore, I said, the judge should not be young; he
 6 Repub|        that is the ideal of a judge. ~Yes, I replied, and he
 7 Repub|        Then the good and wise judge whom we are seeking is not
 8 Repub|  these in order that we might judge of our own happiness and
 9 Repub|      the sense is an adequate judge of them; while in the case
10 Repub| request, that I should have a judge whose mind can enter into
11 Repub|     all by one who is able to judge, and has dwelt in the same
12 Repub|      on the stage, and I must judge them in the order in which
13 Repub|      then, will enable him to judge better than anyone? ~Far
14 Repub|      life. ~And what does the judge affirm to be the life which
15 Repub|     no more than he does, and judge only by colors and figures. ~
16 Repub|     as ignorant as he is, and judge only from his words, imagine
17 Repub|       what you say. ~Hear and judge: The best of us, as I conceive,