*/ Republic | Book III - Part 1 SOCRATES - ADEIMANTUS SUCH then, I said , are our principles of theology–some tales are to be told, and others are not to be told to our disciples from their youth upwards, if we mean them to honour the gods and their parents, and to value friendship with one another. Yes; and

*/ Republic | Book III - Part 2 SOCRATES - GLAUCON I fear, said Glaucon , laughing, that the words ‘every one’ hardly includes me, for I cannot at the moment say what they should be; though I may guess. At any rate you can tell that a song or ode has three parts– the words, the melody, and the

*/ Republic | Book IV - Part 1 ADEIMANTUS - SOCRATES HERE Adeimantus interposed a question: How would you answer, Socrates, said he , if a person were to say that you are making these people miserable, and that they are the cause of their own unhappiness; the city in fact belongs to them, but they are none the better

*/ Republic | Book IV - Part 2 And so, I said , we may consider three out of the four virtues to have been discovered in our State. The last of those qualities which make a state virtuous must be justice, if we only knew what that was. The inference is obvious. The time then has arrived, Glaucon, when,

*/ Republic | Book V - Part 1 SOCRATES - GLAUCON - ADEIMANTUS SUCH is the good and true City or State, and the good and man is of the same pattern; and if this is right every other is wrong; and the evil is one which affects not only the ordering of the State, but also the regulation of

*/ Republic | Book V - Part 2 But would any of your guardians think or speak of any other guardian as a stranger? Certainly he would not; for every one whom they meet will be regarded by them either as a brother or sister, or father or mother, or son or daughter, or as the child or parent of

*/ Republic | Book VI - Part 1 SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in view. I do not think, he said , that the way could have been shortened. I suppose not, I said ; and yet I believe that we

*/ Republic | Book VI - Part 2 Do not make a quarrel, I said , between Thrasymachus and me, who have recently become friends, although, indeed, we were never enemies; for I shall go on striving to the utmost until I either convert him and other men, or do something which may profit them against the day when they

*/ Republic | Book VII - Part 1 SOCRATES - GLAUCON AND now, I said , let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:–Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have