Dialogue

 1 Repub|     enemies, and the hour of ruin, both to themselves and
 2 Repub|      one with another is the ruin of the State. ~Most true.
 3 Repub|    is brought about all that ruin and failure which I have
 4 Repub|     ordered as not to be the ruin of the State: All great
 5 Repub| which thus arise will be the ruin of the rulers themselves
 6 Repub|   private individuals is the ruin of timocracy; they invent
 7 Repub|   because they gain by their ruin; they take interest from
 8 Repub|  money-getting were also the ruin of oligarchy? ~True. ~And
 9 Repub|  what is the next step? ~The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin
10 Repub|     ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy; the same disease
11 Repub|    and democracy, and is the ruin of both? ~Just so, he replied. ~
12 Repub|     order to compass a worse ruin." ~Yes, said Glaucon, far