Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|        then let a man take the best of human notions, and upon
 2 Phaedo|       dispose them all for the best. The new teacher will show
 3 Phaedo|     show me this ‘order of the best’ in man and nature. How
 4 Phaedo|      Atlas is the power of the best. But this ‘best’ is still
 5 Phaedo|   power of the best. But this ‘best’ is still undiscovered;
 6 Phaedo|      hope to attain the second best.~Now there is a danger in
 7 Phaedo|       appears to him to be the best, until at last he arrives
 8 Phaedo|      last thoughts even of the best men depend chiefly on the
 9 Phaedo|     them as they were at their best and brightest, humbly fulfilling
10 Phaedo|        in the Euthydemus), the best friend of Socrates, who
11 Phaedo|    that all things are for the best, and that there is one mind
12 Phaedo|         But this ‘power of the best’ he is unable to explain;
13 Phaedo|        intelligence, or of the best, than of Atlas, or mechanical
14 Phaedo|         and is the noblest and best of music. The dream was
15 Phaedo|        by the gods who are the best of rulers, is not reasonable;
16 Phaedo| against yourself.~I will do my best, replied Socrates. But you
17 Phaedo|        allow that they are the best of them?~Certainly, he replied.~
18 Phaedo|       all?~Yes.~And thought is best when the mind is gathered
19 Phaedo|        would have him take the best and most irrefragable of
20 Phaedo|   struggle manfully and do our best to gain health of mind—you
21 Phaedo|       will dispose all for the best, and put each particular
22 Phaedo|     put each particular in the best place; and I argued that
23 Phaedo|      or doing or suffering was best for that thing, and therefore
24 Phaedo|       had only to consider the best for himself and others,
25 Phaedo|     teach me the nature of the best and show that this was best;
26 Phaedo|    best and show that this was best; and if he said that the
27 Phaedo|     that this position was the best, and I should be satisfied
28 Phaedo|       all of them were for the best. For I could not imagine
29 Phaedo|      are, except that this was best; and I thought that when
30 Phaedo|      to explain to me what was best for each and what was good
31 Phaedo|     their own idea of what was best, and if I had not chosen
32 Phaedo|     not from the choice of the best, is a very careless and
33 Phaedo|      are arranges them for the best never enters into their
34 Phaedo|        else, the nature of the best, I will exhibit to you,
35 Phaedo|    have found to be the second best mode of enquiring into the
36 Phaedo|   found a resting-place in the best of the higher; but you would
37 Phaedo|       no avail.~We will do our best, said Crito: And in what
38 Phaedo|      usual, and what you think best.~When he had spoken these
39 Phaedo|       noblest and gentlest and best of all who ever came to
40 Phaedo|     the wisest and justest and best.~