Dialogue

 1 Intro|     and human life, which is bad enough already, would become
 2 Intro|      government is the least bad, and which of them is the
 3 Intro|  government of a few is less bad and less good—the government
 4 Intro|     of the many is the least bad and least good of them all,
 5 Intro|      and by ‘the many,’ ‘the bad,’ there can be but one reply: ‘
 6 Intro|    all the rest, if they are bad.’ For, as Heracleitus says, ‘
 7 State|  difference between good and bad men?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Plainly.~
 8 State| determining what was good or bad, honourable or dishonourable,
 9 State|     And human life, which is bad enough already, would then
10 State|   most trivial thing, out of bad and good materials indifferently,
11 State|    all art rather reject the bad as far as possible, and
12 State|      combination of good and bad men, if this can be avoided;