"Do you realize the sort of danger to which you are going to expose your soul? If it were a case of putting your body …"

"Is not a Sophist, Hippocrates, one who deals wholesale or retail in the food of the soul? To me that appears to be hi…"

"The talk about the poets seems to me like a commonplace entertainment to which a vulgar company have recourse; who, b…"

"He will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to…"

"You must not wonder that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for thei…"

"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two ca…"

"This entire allegory, I said, you may now append, dear Glaucon, to the previous argument; the prison-house is the wor…"

"And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:—Behold! human beings liv…"

"And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name the…"

"And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At…"