Dialogue

1001 Repub|              delight? ~Certainly, he said, we shall be the gainers. ~
1002 Repub|              words his law. ~Yes, he said, I quite agree with you. ~
1003 Repub|              agree with you. ~Yes, I said, my dear Glaucon, for great
1004 Repub|         justice and virtue? ~Yes, he said; I have been convinced by
1005 Repub|     inconceivable greatness. ~Why, I said, what was ever great in
1006 Repub|           ask? ~Are you not aware, I said, that the soul of man is
1007 Repub|              me in astonishment, and said: No, by heaven: And are
1008 Repub|            to maintain this? ~Yes, I said, I ought to be, and you
1009 Repub|           evil and disease? ~Yes, he said. ~And anything which is
1010 Repub|             may be assumed. ~Well, I said, and is there no evil which
1011 Repub|          corrupts the soul? ~Yes, he said, there are all the evils
1012 Repub|           Certainly not. ~And yet, I said, it is unreasonable to suppose
1013 Repub|             he replied. ~Consider, I said, Glaucon, that even the
1014 Repub|         belongs to another? ~Yes, he said, there is reason in that.
1015 Repub|             of their deeds? ~Nay, he said, in that case injustice,
1016 Repub|             house of death. ~True, I said; if the inherent natural
1017 Repub|            That is the conclusion, I said; and, if a true conclusion,
1018 Repub| dissimilarity. ~What do you mean? he said. ~The soul, I said, being,
1019 Repub|          mean? he said. ~The soul, I said, being, as is now proven,
1020 Repub|             I think that we have now said enough. ~True, he replied. ~
1021 Repub|             he replied. ~And thus, I said, we have fulfilled the conditions
1022 Repub|            death. ~Certainly not, he said. ~Will you repay me, then,
1023 Repub|             her own. ~The demand, he said, is just. ~In the first
1024 Repub|          pursuit of virtue? ~Yes, he said; if he is like God he will
1025 Repub|              they will; all that you said of the others I now say
1026 Repub|             are true? ~Certainly, he said, what you say is true. ~
1027 Repub|           herself provides. ~Yes, he said; and they are fair and lasting. ~
1028 Repub|             and lasting. ~And yet, I said, all these are as nothing
1029 Repub|             owes to them. ~Speak, he said; there are few things which
1030 Repub|           more gladly hear. ~Well, I said, I will tell you a tale;
1031 Repub|          seen in the other world. He said that when his soul left
1032 Repub|             but the sum was this: He said that for every wrong which
1033 Repub|           need hardly repeat what he said concerning young children
1034 Repub|           his elder brother, and was said to have committed many other
1035 Repub|          will never come." And this, said he, was one of the dreadful
1036 Repub|           which they had endured, he said that there was none like
1037 Repub|           with exceeding joy. These, said Er, were the penalties and
1038 Repub|             the fourth day after, he said that they came to a place
1039 Repub|            this was what the prophet said at the time: "Even for the
1040 Repub|           heavenly. Most curious, he said, was the spectacle-sad and
1041 Repub|               and when he saw it, he said that he would have done