Dialogue

 1 Intro|    mesotomy, and accords with the principle which we were laying down.
 2 Intro|         govern on some scientific principle,—it makes no difference.
 3 Intro|        result. The true political principle is to assert the inviolability
 4 Intro|          maintained that some one principle, like the principle of the
 5 Intro|           one principle, like the principle of the Same and the Other
 6 Intro|       excess and defect, like the principle of division in the Phaedrus,
 7 Intro|         to be the single ultimate principle in which all the sciences
 8 Intro|    satisfied with laying down the principle, and does not inform us
 9 Intro|     possible.~d. Law is the first principle of society, but it cannot
10 Intro|          be overruled, not by any principle of law, but by the opinion
11 Intro|         to be substituted another principle of a more general character,
12 State|        classes. Attention to this principle makes all the difference
13 State|      other agrees better with the principle which we were laying down,
14 State|         YOUNG SOCRATES: Upon what principle?~STRANGER: The one grows
15 State|           YOUNG SOCRATES: On what principle?~STRANGER: On the principle
16 State|       principle?~STRANGER: On the principle of voluntary and compulsory.~
17 State|       care into two parts, on the principle of voluntary and compulsory.~
18 State|       make two halves, one on the principle of composition, and the
19 State| composition, and the other on the principle of division.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
20 State|       well may, let me lay down a principle which will apply to arguments
21 State|     exceeding and exceeded by the principle of the mean, both in speech
22 State|           that the distinguishing principle of the State cannot be the
23 State|           rule on some scientific principle; just as the physician,
24 State|      STRANGER: A perfectly simple principle can never be applied to
25 State|    interest? Is not this the true principle of government, according
26 State|           true.~STRANGER: And the principle that no great number of
27 State|           YOUNG SOCRATES: On what principle of division?~STRANGER: On
28 State|   division?~STRANGER: On the same principle as before, although the
29 State|        alone are left for us, the principle of law and the absence of
30 State|  confirmed by reason, is a divine principle, and when implanted in the
31 State|     STRANGER: They act on no true principle at all; they seek their