Dialogue

 1 Intro|    animals as two classes—the second of which you comprehended
 2 Intro|    thing of all, but only the second best. And whoever, having
 3 Intro|      of man is succeeded by a second; the misery and wickedness
 4 Intro|       can do (though only the second best in reality), is to
 5 Intro|     not the best but only the second best. What the best is,
 6 Intro|   himself without law. In the second place, even if he be ever
 7 Intro| contained the pattern of that second best form of government,
 8 State|       true, and therefore the second error was not so great as
 9 State|        not our first, but our second object; the first and highest
10 State|     good when regarded as the second best thing, if you set aside
11 State|     nature of what I call the second best?~YOUNG SOCRATES: By