Dialogue

1 Repub|            just man neglecting his affairs and perhaps suffering other
2 Repub|         himself able to manage the affairs of Hellenes and of barbarians,
3 Repub|         time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled
4 Repub|      unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever
5 Repub|           administration of public affairs, poor and hungering after
6 Repub|           men who are wisest about affairs of State, and by whom the
7 Repub| indifferent. ~Such is the state of affairs which prevails among them.
8 Repub|         have been thrown order our affairs in the way which reason