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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.

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

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.

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?