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'They went on their way rather regardless of whether we understood them or not.'

I have to acknowledge many obligations to old friends and pupils.

I am often undecided, Parmenides, as to whether I ought to include them or not.

Keep in mind what this is, and tell me what I want to know—whether Love desires that of which love is.

With these words I was thinking that I had made an end of the discussion; but the end, in truth, proved to be only a beginning.

Tell him, Cebes, he replied, what is the truth—that I had no idea of rivalling him or his poems; to do so, as I knew, would be no easy task.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

At the end of a long task, the translator may without impropriety point out the difficulties which he has had to encounter.

‘Lest the mansions grim and squalid which the gods abhor should be seen both of mortals and immortals.’

The chief additions to the Introductions in the Third Edition consist of Essays on the following subjects:—

There would certainly be a difficulty, I replied, in going to war with one such enemy; but there is no difficulty where there are two of them.

I will not resist you, I replied.

And without more ado, said Thrasymachus, you may consider us all to be equally agreed.

And thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in view.

You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.

I shall particularly wish to hear what were the four constitutions of which you were speaking.

And if the old man and woman fight for their own, what then, my friend? Will the creature feel any compunction at tyrannizing over them?