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The Republic

By: Plato

... Prithee, friend, do not keep your knowl edge to yourself; we are a large party; and any benefit which you confer upon us will be amply rewarded. For... ...SOCRATES GLAUCON Heavens! my dear Glaucon, I said, how energetically you polish them up for the decision, first one and then the other, as if they w... ...ws, and in the second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and polished bodies and the like: Do you understand? Yes, I understand. Imagine... ... the others insisting that the two sounds have passed into the same—either party setting their ears before their understanding. You mean, I said, thos... ... also likely to be illness,which the occasions may be very slight, the one party introducing from without their oligarchical, the other their democrat... ...ird class, consisting of those who work with their own hands; they are not politicians, and have not much to live upon. This, when assembled, is the l... ...the painter know the right form of the bit and reins? Nay, hardly even the workers in brass and leather who make them; only the horseman who knows how...

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