Dialogue

 1 Intro|        he regained his first and better nature. Having given this
 2 Intro| council-chamber, and leaving the better principle undisturbed to
 3 Intro|         a shorter life which was better was preferable to a longer
 4 Intro|          Proclus; but we require better assurance than Proclus can
 5 Intro|         reader. Who would desire better evidence than that of Critias,
 6 Intro|        in the original cannot do better than devote a few of his
 7 Timae|        by the painter’s art, or, better still, alive but at rest,
 8 Timae|   present as well as past are no better—not that I mean to depreciate
 9 Timae|        you only would, none were better qualified to carry the discussion
10 Timae|        to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children.
11 Timae|          laws as these and still better ones, and excelled all mankind
12 Timae|         can we find that will be better than this, which is natural
13 Timae|       that this was in every way better than the other. Now the
14 Timae|        the form of his first and better state. Having given all
15 Timae|      influence of reason got the better of necessity, the universe
16 Timae|     shorter-lived race which was better, came to the conclusion
17 Timae|          span of life, which was better, to a longer one, which
18 Timae|       frame of the body gets the better of them and its newer triangles
19 Timae|        the stronger, getting the better and increasing their own