Charmides
   Part
 1 Text |        never have seemed to us useless, if I had been good for


Cratylus
   Part
 2 Intro|        But they are worse than useless when they outrun experience


Gorgias
   Part
 3 Intro|       like. But it would be as useless to examine his arguments
 4 Intro|       or inharmoniously. It is useless to criticise the broken
 5 Text |       private or public, it is useless for me to reply, as I truly


Laches
   Part
 6 Intro|      that these pretenders are useless and ridiculous. This man


Laws
   Book
 7 3    |       their untold myriads are useless to them on the field of
 8 6    |    will they be ridiculous and useless, but the greatest political
 9 6    |       any other impossible and useless feat.~Cleinias. What is
10 7    |        or Amycus invented, are useless and unsuitable for war,


Lysis
   Part
11 Text |        us, in as far as we are useless to them?~Certainly not.~
12 Text |    else, in so far as they are useless to them?~No.~And therefore,
13 Text |      of any use, or other than useless to us? For if there were
14 Text |        for to say that what is useless is dear, would be absurd?


Parmenides
   Part
15 Intro|    process which is not either useless or unnecessary in any age
16 Text |        is often imagined to be useless; in that you must train


The Republic
   Book
17 1    |        is useful when money is useless? ~That is the inference. ~
18 1    |        is useful when they are useless, and useless when they are
19 1    |     when they are useless, and useless when they are useful? ~That
20 3    |       we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful
21 3    |         instead of brittle and useless. But, if he carries on the
22 4    |      the former they are quite useless, and in the latter there
23 6    |      the best of them are made useless to the world by the very
24 6    |   votaries of philosophy to be useless to the rest of the world,
25 6    |       rogues, and the best are useless; in which opinion I agreed. ~
26 6    |        reason why the good are useless has now been explained? ~
27 6    |        some of them manifestly useless, and the greater number
28 6    |      those who were said to be useless but not wicked-and, when
29 6    |    philosophers whom we termed useless but not corrupt are providentially
30 7    |        other hand, hurtful and useless. Did you never observe the
31 7    |   appearance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit
32 7    |   pursued in any other spirit, useless. Very true, he said. ~Now,
33 7    |       this sort of training is useless for any other purpose; for
34 8    |     freedom and libertinism of useless and unnecessary pleasures. ~
35 10   |        we may call irrational, useless, and cowardly? ~Indeed,


The Seventh Letter
   Part
36 Text |        offend them by offering useless, advice, nor would I flatter


The Sophist
   Part
37 Intro|    certainly intelligible, but useless. To refer a subject to a
38 Intro| contradictions is childish and useless, and the very opposite of


The Statesman
   Part
39 Intro|       and the other feeble and useless. This would not have been
40 Text |   instead of making a long and useless circuit?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
41 Text |         that there was nothing useless in what was said.~STRANGER:
42 Text |   become utterly paralyzed and useless.~YOUNG SOCRATES: That, again,


Theaetetus
   Part
43 Intro| carried on, a clearing away of useless abstractions which we have