Dialogue

 1 Phileb|     easily induced to take the better part. Philebus, who has
 2 Phileb|  knowledge. He would have done better to make a separate class
 3 Phileb|  ancestors; and they, who were better men and nearer the gods
 4 Phileb|        himself richer, fairer, better, wiser than he is? ‘Yes.’
 5 Phileb|       to philosophers, but the better part of the world has been
 6 Phileb|      that mankind has been the better for them. The world was
 7 Phileb|      not agree either with the better feeling of the multitude
 8 Phileb|      supposed by them to be no better than children, and with
 9 Phileb|        You ought’ and ‘you had better’ are fundamental distinctions
10 Phileb|      favour, and had therefore better give the larger share, if
11 Phileb|      Would the world have been better if there had been no Stoics
12 Phileb|      rules of morals which are better explained and more forcibly
13 Phileb|     the good of mankind. It is better for him to know that he
14 Phileb| actions to the standard of the better mind of the world, or of
15 Phileb|        and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than
16 Phileb|        a third state, which is better than either? Then both of
17 Phileb|  SOCRATES: Or suppose that the better life is more nearly allied
18 Phileb|   disposed to move, and we had better not stir him up with questions.~
19 Phileb|  neither is nor ever will be a better than my own favourite way,
20 Phileb|       different from them, and better than either. If this be
21 Phileb| SOCRATES: Well, but had we not better leave her now, and not pain
22 Phileb|     because I said that we had better not pain pleasure, which
23 Phileb|      four, I think that we had better refresh our memories by
24 Phileb|        points, shall we not be better able to decide about the
25 Phileb|  PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES: A better and more unexceptionable
26 Phileb| SOCRATES: You will soon have a better opportunity of showing whether
27 Phileb|        PROTARCHUS: Then we had better proceed to analyze this
28 Phileb|  imagine themselves to be much better men than they are.~PROTARCHUS:
29 Phileb|       only conjecture, and the better use of the senses which
30 Phileb|       SOCRATES: But had we not better have a preliminary word
31 Phileb|        and choose, there is no better companion than knowledge
32 Phileb|        in that way we shall be better able to judge.~SOCRATES:
33 Phileb|       perhaps the argument had better be pursued to the end.~SOCRATES:
34 Phileb|     affirmed that mind was far better and far more excellent,
35 Phileb|   other things which were also better, I went on to say that if
36 Phileb|     that if there was anything better than either, then I would
37 Phileb|     the lusts of animals to be better witnesses than the inspirations