Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|          in fancy and humour, and perfection of style and metaphysical
 2 Intro|       exist in various degrees of perfection, and that the analysis of
 3 Intro|           attained by degrees the perfection of Homer and Plato. Yet


Euthydemus
   Part
 4 Text |         you to acquire this great perfection in such a short time? There


Gorgias
   Part
 5 Intro|       pious, and has attained the perfection of goodness and therefore


Laws
   Book
 6 1    |          eagerly pursue the ideal perfection of citizenship, and teaches
 7 3    |          mean they attained their perfection; but that when they were
 8 7    |           accomplishment of their perfection and consummation; and therefore
 9 10   |        who have wrought out their perfection with infinitesimal exactness.


Parmenides
   Part
10 Text |         of not-being—that is, the perfection of being; and when not-being
11 Text |          of not-being—that is the perfection of not-being.~Most true.~


Phaedo
   Part
12 Intro|           maintained there by the perfection of balance. That which we
13 Intro|          and to whom our ideas of perfection give us a title to belong?
14 Intro|     according to a rule of divine perfection is opposed to experience
15 Intro|         and the strongest, is the perfection of the divine nature. The
16 Intro|     beings should partake of that perfection which he himself is. In
17 Intro|   discrete.~In speaking of divine perfection, we mean to say that God
18 Intro|       progress of mankind towards perfection; and if there is no progress
19 Intro|           progress of men towards perfection, then there is no good and
20 Intro|      progress of the soul towards perfection. In using this argument
21 Text |      other senses, in far greater perfection, in the same proportion


Phaedrus
   Part
22 Intro|     preliminaries of the art. The perfection of oratory is like the perfection
23 Intro| perfection of oratory is like the perfection of anything else; natural
24 Intro|      maturity of the thought, the perfection of the style, the insight,
25 Text |           acquired.~SOCRATES: The perfection which is required of the
26 Text |          rather must be, like the perfection of anything else; partly
27 Text |       which he has sown arrive at perfection?~PHAEDRUS: Yes, Socrates,
28 Text |            is there clearness and perfection and seriousness, and that


Philebus
   Part
29 Intro|           harmony, health, order, perfection, and the like. All things,
30 Intro|           theory into counsels of perfection.~To what then is to be attributed
31 Intro|        others may be a counsel of perfection, but hardly seems to offer
32 Intro|   morality, beginning with divine perfection in which all human perfection
33 Intro|     perfection in which all human perfection is embodied. It moves among
34 Intro|        reverenced by us as divine perfection.~Secondly, human perfection,
35 Intro|       perfection.~Secondly, human perfection, or the fulfilment of the
36 Intro|    Thirdly, the elements of human perfection,—virtue, knowledge, and
37 Intro|        the external conditions of perfection,—health and the goods of
38 Text |          and also in adequacy and perfection.~PROTARCHUS: Most true.~


The Republic
   Book
39 1    |        interest of any art is the perfection of it-this and nothing else? ~
40 1    |          best for them, since the perfection of the art is already insured
41 4    |          in the hope of attaining perfection. ~You would compare them,
42 4    |       take the purple hue in full perfection. The dyeing then proceeds;
43 4    |       take the dye of the laws in perfection, and the color of their
44 6    |           that a nature having in perfection all the qualities which
45 6    |        And do they not educate to perfection young and old, men and women
46 6    |           finds in the State that perfection which she herself is, then
47 6    |      individuals will ever attain perfection until the small class of
48 7    |          place, where is the full perfection of being, which she ought,
49 7    |         What is that? ~There is a perfection which all knowledge ought


The Statesman
   Part
50 Intro|           and is due to exquisite perfection of balance, to the vast
51 Intro|        have dreamed of a state of perfection, which has been, and is
52 Text |        Then if the law is not the perfection of right, why are we compelled


Theaetetus
   Part
53 Intro|           his later writings. The perfection of style, the humour, the
54 Intro|           of duty, or of a divine perfection, are out of place in an
55 Intro|       instead of aspiring towards perfection, ‘it hovers about this lower
56 Text |          should be the top of all perfection! SOCRATES: Well, then, be


Timaeus
   Part
57 Intro|           as are adapted by their perfection to produce all the four
58 Intro|         find in them mathematical perfection. The same spirit is carried
59 Text |          might attain the highest perfection. And for this reason the
60 Text |         part of created things to perfection, and thus and after this
61 Text |         and were adapted by their perfection to produce fire and water,