Cratylus
   Part
 1 Intro|         son of Cronos, who is a proverb for stupidity; but the meaning
 2 Text |         son of Cronos (who is a proverb for stupidity), and we might


Gorgias
   Part
 3 Text | CALLICLES: The wise man, as the proverb says, is late for a fray,


Laches
   Part
 4 Text |        your friend, and, as the proverb says, ‘break the large vessel
 5 Text |    every pig would know, as the proverb says, and therefore he could


Laws
   Book
 6 3    |   although, in the words of the proverb, they know neither how to
 7 3    |       then we shall not, as the proverb says, fall off our ass.
 8 5    |       can ever know, as the old proverb says; but only a man of
 9 6    |       best possible. For as the proverb says, “a good beginning
10 7    |        probably he who made the proverb about God originally had
11 12   | circumstances?~Athenian. As the proverb says, the answer is no secret,


Lysis
   Part
12 Text |         the friend,’ as the old proverb says. Beauty is certainly


Menexenus
   Part
13 Text |      away, he will remember the proverb— “Neither rejoicing overmuch


Phaedo
   Part
14 Text |      and ready to start, as the proverb says, at my own shadow,


Phaedrus
   Part
15 Intro|         the truth; as a Spartan proverb says, ‘true art is truth’;
16 Text | disagreeable companion. The old proverb says that ‘birds of a feather
17 Text |       that the ‘sweet elbow’ (A proverb, like ‘the grapes are sour,’
18 Text |         tedious affair.) of the proverb is really the long arm of
19 Text |      May not ‘the wolf,’ as the proverb says, ‘claim a hearing’?~


Philebus
   Part
20 Intro|       lovers have passed into a proverb.~Which of symmetry? Wisdom
21 Text |      the world.~PROTARCHUS: The proverb may be applied to us; for
22 Text |        mentioned. Well says the proverb, that we ought to repeat


The Republic
   Book
23 1    |        of a feather, as the old proverb says; and at our meetings
24 2    |          then, according to the proverb, "Let brother help brother"-
25 4    |        things in common, as the proverb says. ~That will be the
26 4    |      Nay, rather, Socrates, the proverb holds that hard is the good. ~
27 6    |         more than human, as the proverb says, is not included: for
28 8    |     truly, the she-dogs, as the proverb says, are as good as their


The Sophist
   Part
29 Text |        to escape us, for as the proverb says, when every way is
30 Text |      Such a faint heart, as the proverb says, will never take a


The Statesman
   Part
31 Intro|     found by experience, as the proverb says, that ‘the more haste
32 Text |         misfortune of which the proverb speaks.~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
   Part
33 Text |         and let us demolish the proverb:—~‘To the feasts of inferior
34 Text |       go;’~instead of which our proverb will run:—~‘To the feasts
35 Text |      but literally outrages the proverb. For, after picturing Agamemnon
36 Text |   together—like to like, as the proverb says. Many things were said
37 Text |        I were sober. Yet as the proverb says, ‘In vino veritas,’
38 Text |     learn by experience, as the proverb says.’~When Alcibiades had