Dialogue

 1 Intro|        or royal person. And the rule of a man is better and higher
 2 Intro|   middle; if you attend to this rule, you will be more likely
 3 Intro|         rich or poor, or by the rule being compulsory or voluntary?
 4 Intro|         not that the law should rule, but that the king should
 5 Intro|        but that the king should rule, for the varieties of circumstances
 6 Intro|      and no simple or universal rule can suit them all, or last
 7 Intro|        whether he has a general rule of diet and exercise which
 8 Intro|     days of innocence under the rule of Cronos. So we may venture
 9 Intro|       is a law, that the higher rule has no exception, that goodness,
10 Intro|        c. Besides the imaginary rule of a philosopher or a God,
11 Intro|       naturally ask whether the rule of the many or of the few
12 Intro|      can be but one reply: ‘The rule of one good man is better
13 Intro|     good man is better than the rule of all the rest, if they
14 Intro|         however, we mean by the rule of the few the rule of a
15 Intro|         the rule of the few the rule of a class neither better
16 Intro|       own interests, and by the rule of the many the rule of
17 Intro|        the rule of the many the rule of all classes, similarly
18 Intro|         hesitate to answer—‘The rule of all rather than one,
19 Intro|        short time at Athens—the rule of the Five Thousand— characterized
20 Intro|   conform in his conduct to any rule of law. For the compact
21 State|        which was the science of rule or command, and from this
22 State|      were distributed under the rule of certain inferior deities,
23 State|  inferior deities who share the rule of the supreme power, being
24 State|   course, having the charge and rule of himself and of all the
25 State|      kingship of to-day and the rule of Cronos.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
26 State|        for human society and to rule over men in general.~YOUNG
27 State|    third form of government the rule of the multitude, which
28 State|       and whether the multitude rule over the men of property
29 State|     royal science, whether they rule or not, as was shown in
30 State|         And these, whether they rule with the will, or against
31 State| whatever be the nature of their rule, must be supposed, according
32 State|         to our present view, to rule on some scientific principle;
33 State|        pretenders, whether they rule according to law or without
34 State|        the city over which they rule, and which has these characteristics,
35 State|         not that the law should rule, but that a man should rule
36 State|     rule, but that a man should rule supposing him to have wisdom
37 State|        any universal and simple rule. And no art whatsoever can
38 State|       whatsoever can lay down a rule which will last for all
39 State|         observing the one great rule of distributing justice
40 State|        to exercise an arbitrary rule over their patients or ships,
41 State|        discussion—monarchy, the rule of the few, and the rule
42 State|        rule of the few, and the rule of the many.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
43 State|        royalty and tyranny; the rule of the few into aristocracy,
44 State| oligarchy; and democracy or the rule of the many, which before
45 State|       not itself to act, but to rule over those who are able