Dialogue

 1 Repub|            he is termed happy and blessed, not only by the citizens
 2 Repub|          And he who lives well is blessed and happy, and he who lives
 3 Repub| profitable? ~Of course. ~Then, my blessed Thrasymachus, injustice
 4 Repub|           my lot as in all things blessed of heaven, he raised a note
 5 Repub|          laughter arose among the blessed gods, when they saw Hephaestus
 6 Repub|         fashion; in a city of the blessed, licentiousness is an unholy
 7 Repub|            and their life will be blessed as the life of Olympic victors
 8 Repub|      Olympic victors and yet more blessed. ~How so? ~The Olympic victor,
 9 Repub|         have tasted how sweet and blessed a possession philosophy
10 Repub|       apart in the islands of the blessed. ~Very true, he replied. ~
11 Repub|      depart to the Islands of the Blessed and dwell there; and the
12 Repub|        but if not, as in any case blessed and divine. ~You are a sculptor,
13 Repub|      cannot help himself. ~What a blessed alternative, I said: to
14 Repub|         them best of all. ~What a blessed creature, I said, must this