Dialogue

 1 Text|        experience as many other men. I fancied that if, early
 2 Text|       took place, and fifty-one men came to the front as rulers
 3 Text|    manage the State as to bring men out of a bad way of life
 4 Text|         these incidents and the men engaged in public affairs,
 5 Text|         that it is by this that men are enabled to see what
 6 Text|        of evils for the sons of men, till either those who are
 7 Text|       any laws whatsoever, when men think it right to squander
 8 Text|       as to the ideals at which men should aim, advising him
 9 Text|    opinion, so far as the young men were concerned, and the
10 Text|       of apprehension-for young men are quick in forming desires,
11 Text|      enabling you to lead young men into the path of goodness
12 Text|    advise such people. But when men are travelling altogether
13 Text|        penalty of death-if such men should order their counsellors
14 Text|      introduced without driving men into exile or putting them
15 Text|       own supporters, either by men who had no ties of blood
16 Text|         trust in brothers or in men whom he had brought up,
17 Text|   because they had in each them men whom they could trust. But
18 Text|         as though they had been men of any note.~All this has
19 Text|       sent forth a light to all men, Greeks and barbarians,
20 Text|         under the rule of godly men and having received a right
21 Text| anything positively about other men, that, if he had got the
22 Text|    Athens; for there, also, are men who excel all mankind in
23 Text|  conquered party, should compel men to obey these by two restraining
24 Text|   choice select from all Hellas men whom they have ascertained
25 Text|      must in the first place be men of mature years, who have
26 Text|      some chance, mightier than men, brought it to nothing.
27 Text|      were not uncommon in young men, still it seemed to me safer
28 Text|     Greeks-and, with him, other men of repute in Sicily. These
29 Text| Dionysios. One should show such men what philosophy is in all
30 Text|       think it a good thing for men that there should be a disquisition,
31 Text|        Lynceus could endow such men with the power of sight.~
32 Text|    foreign to it. Therefore, if men are not by nature kinship
33 Text|  scrutiny and kindly testing by men who proceed by question
34 Text|      and misunderstanding among men by committing them to writing.
35 Text|      then surely, not gods, but men “have themselves bereft
36 Text|     tears, while I said: “These men are afraid that you may
37 Text|       if he goes on to kill the men of substance, whom he speaks
38 Text|        to the character of such men, but it would perhaps not
39 Text|  assailants were thoroughly bad men, but he was unaware how