The Republic · ¶5125
Life in the early state, 2. 372; —loses its zest in old age, 1. 329 A; full of evils, 2. 379 C; intolerable without virtue, 4. 445; shortness of, compared to eternity, 10. 608 D; —the life of virtue toilsome, 2. 364 D; —the just or the unjust, which is the more advantageous? ib. 347 foll.; —three kinds of lives among men, 9. 581; —life of women ought to resemble that of men, 5. 451 foll. [cp. Laws 7. 804 E]; —the necessities of life, 2. 369, 373 A; —the prime of life, 5. 460 E.Read in context ›
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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