The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |        there might have been a motive for that—but their uncorrupted


Charmides
   Part
 2 PreS |        all similar in style or motive, like witnesses who agree
 3 PreS |      all written from the same motive, whether serious or only
 4 Text |    think that I have any other motive in refuting you but what
 5 Text |   examining into myself? which motive would be just a fear of


Cratylus
   Part
 6 Intro|       an uncertainty about the motive of the piece, which interpreters
 7 Intro|        some unknown reason the motive powers of languages seem


The First Alcibiades
   Part
 8 Pre  |        exercise, or in which a motive or some affinity to spurious
 9 Pre  |       writings, to invent. The motive or leading thought of the
10 Pre  |      no similar instance of a ‘motive’ which is taken from Xenophon
11 Pre  | earlier writings of Plato. The motive of the piece may, perhaps,
12 Text |       away, and what can be my motive in remaining.~ALCIBIADES:
13 Text |     you want? And what is your motive in annoying me, and always,


Gorgias
   Part
14 Intro|      might is right. His great motive of action is political ambition;


Lysis
   Part
15 Text |  Certainly he is.~And has he a motive and object in being a friend,
16 Text |   being a friend, or has he no motive and object?~He has a motive
17 Text |    motive and object?~He has a motive and object.~And is the object


Menexenus
   Part
18 Pre  |        exercise, or in which a motive or some affinity to spurious
19 Pre  |       writings, to invent. The motive or leading thought of the
20 Pre  |      no similar instance of a ‘motive’ which is taken from Xenophon
21 Pre  | earlier writings of Plato. The motive of the piece may, perhaps,


Parmenides
   Part
22 Intro|     you do not quite catch the motive of the piece, which was
23 Text |       fully apprehend the true motive of the composition, which
24 Text |       be published or not; the motive, however, of writing, was


Phaedo
   Part
25 Intro|      or disgrace, which is the motive of other men. He too has
26 Intro| Christianity was the strongest motive of action can survive the


Phaedrus
   Part
27 Intro|  between the soul as the great motive power and the triple soul
28 Intro|    conception of the soul as a motive power, in his reminiscence
29 Intro|      of the soul itself as the motive power and reason of the
30 Text |        or mere pleasure be the motive. Once more, if you fear


Philebus
   Part
31 Intro|     the test, and pleasure the motive of actions. For the universal
32 Intro|  always be the highest or best motive of them (why I do them).~
33 Intro| pleasure, now appearing as the motive, now as the test of actions,
34 Intro|         comprehensiveness, and motive power.~There are three subjective
35 Intro|        authority to this, or a motive equal in strength to the


Protagoras
   Part
36 Text |        he said.~Then as to the motive from which the cowards act,


The Republic
   Book
37 2    |        friend of God. ~Then no motive can be imagined why God
38 9    |   avoid? ~Then, if that is his motive, he will not be a statesman. ~


The Sophist
   Part
39 Intro|         individual,’ ‘cause,’ ‘motive,’ have acquired an exaggerated


The Symposium
   Part
40 Text |      nor wealth, nor any other motive is able to implant so well
41 Text |        they were done from any motive of interest, or wish for


Theaetetus
   Part
42 Intro|       the spring of a watch, a motive power, a breath, a stream,