Dialogue

 1 Intro|  exclusively, and the other with action; arithmetic and the mathematical
 2 Intro|         knowledge rather than to action. For a king rules with his
 3 Intro|         again, and has a reverse action during infinite ages. This
 4 Intro|          infinite ages. This new action is spontaneous, and is due
 5 Intro|          wanting in the power of action; the courageous fall short
 6 Intro|          them in justice, but in action are superior to them: and
 7 Intro|       nicely balanced as to make action and movement impossible.~
 8 State| knowledge, wholly separated from action?~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
 9 State|         mean, both in speech and action, and is not this a reality,
10 State|         occasion a difficulty in action; and the excellence or beauty
11 State|   statesman nor any other man of action can be an undisputed master
12 State|          the true particulars of action as far as they admit of
13 State|         within his own sphere of action by his art without regard
14 State|       knowledge is divorced from action, can we wonder, Socrates,
15 State|      concerned with some special action of their own, have, as they
16 State|          the opposite classes of action under which they fall. When
17 State|         STRANGER: We speak of an action as energetic and brave,
18 State|       praise the quiet strain of action also?~YOUNG SOCRATES: To
19 State|     steadiness and gentleness in action, of smoothness and depth
20 State|    caution, but has the power of action in a remarkable degree,
21 State|          of the web of political action, which is created by a direct