Dialogue

 1 Repub|     inherited being much what I possess now; but my father, Lysanias,
 2 Repub|       the truth an evil, and to possess the truth a good? and you
 3 Repub|        things as they are is to possess the truth? ~Yes, he replied;
 4 Repub| individuals who are supposed to possess it, e.g., the Thracians,
 5 Repub|        thing which he wishes to possess: or again, when a person
 6 Repub|       Yes. ~Men and women alike possess the qualities which make
 7 Repub|  quality which they should also possess? ~What quality? ~Truthfulness:
 8 Repub|     power which he will one day possess. ~That often happens, he
 9 Repub|  together, and that persons who possess them and are at the same
10 Repub|       of any value if we do not possess the good? or the knowledge
11 Repub|      thing? And he who does not possess and is therefore unable
12 Repub|       individuals in cities who possess many slaves: from them you
13 Repub|         deceive those who truly possess her, let what has been taken