Dialogue

 1 Intro|         And the rule of a man is better and higher than law, because
 2 Intro|       joke, and there is a still better in the juxtaposition of
 3 Intro|   language is, or ought to be, a better instrument of description
 4 Intro|      fewer, they would have been better calculated to make men dialecticians.~
 5 Intro|      there remain some other and better elements, which adhere to
 6 Intro|       solved. Though no one knew better than Plato that the introduction
 7 Intro|          live at present, is the better of the two. He wants to
 8 Intro|     things; given by metaphysics better than the Eleatic Stranger
 9 Intro|          the Laws, whose will is better than any law. He is the
10 Intro|  received forms of government as better than none. And the best
11 Intro|          rule of one good man is better than the rule of all the
12 Intro|          rule of a class neither better nor worse than other classes,
13 Intro|        wise men are likely to be better governors than the unwise
14 State|     propose. The young always do better when they have intervals
15 State|    hereafter I think that we had better avoid.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What
16 State|    STRANGER: I think that we had better not cut off a single small
17 State|    Whereas you would make a much better and more equal and logical
18 State|           YOUNG SOCRATES: We had better not take the whole?~STRANGER:
19 State|      YOUNG SOCRATES: And all the better, Stranger;—we got what we
20 State|          large; the other agrees better with the principle which
21 State|       are fresh, we shall get on better. And now attend to the division.~
22 State|          and soothe his own herd better than he can, either with
23 State| knowledge and discussion, we had better let the matter drop, and
24 State|     science will have a prior or better right than the royal science
25 State|       persons a living being had better be delineated by language
26 State|           So I think that we had better go backwards, starting from
27 State|         order that he may have a better knowledge of all words.~
28 State|   according as either of them is better calculated to sharpen the
29 State|      those who took part in them better dialecticians, and more
30 State|      YOUNG SOCRATES: Then we had better do so.~STRANGER: We must
31 State| nourishment, unless you have any better name to offer. This, however,
32 State|       this, and some of them are better and some of them are worse;
33 State|      some of them are worse; the better are said to be well governed,
34 State|          something happens to be better than what he commanded for
35 State|    something else happened to be better for them,—would he not venture
36 State|         to do what is juster and better and nobler than he did before,
37 State|          as may be, to make them better from being worse.~YOUNG
38 State|          while ago, some for the better and some for the worse.~
39 State|      during his absence would be better.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes, we
40 State|         with a view to something better, would only be acting, as