Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy. Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humor or imagery, or more dramatic power. But no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same perfection of style no other shows an equal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old, and not of one age only but of all. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws as works of art, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher excellence.
The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them.
2 Plato, Republic Book 1 The Republic by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Book I
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