Gorgias
   Part
 1 Intro| existence of a universal art of flattery or simulation having several
 2 Intro|         the highest species. To flattery is opposed the true and
 3 Intro|     which there will be no more flattery or disguise, and no further
 4 Intro|        that he should avoid all flattery, whether of himself or of
 5 Intro|      whole, which may be termed flattery, is the reply. ‘But what
 6 Intro|   species of oratory; the one a flattery, another which has a real
 7 Intro|      become good, and avoid all flattery, whether of the many or
 8 Intro|          in Plato’s language, a flattery, a sophistry, or sham, in
 9 Text |        I sum up under the word ‘flattery’; and it appears to me to
10 Text |     been informed, what part of flattery is rhetoric: he did not
11 Text |       will ask me, What part of flattery is rhetoric?~POLUS: I will
12 Text |        you answer? What part of flattery is rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Will
13 Text |         for their highest good; flattery knowing, or rather guessing
14 Text |    would be starved to death. A flattery I deem this to be and of
15 Text |        then, I maintain to be a flattery which takes the form of
16 Text |    tiring, in like manner, is a flattery which takes the form of
17 Text |      you think that rhetoric is flattery?~SOCRATES: Nay, I said a
18 Text | SOCRATES: Nay, I said a part of flattery; if at your age, Polus,
19 Text |    rhetoric is an art and not a flattery—and so you will have refuted
20 Text |      sort of thing which I term flattery, whether concerned with
21 Text |     were just now describing as flattery?~CALLICLES: Quite true.~
22 Text |         as having the nature of flattery.~CALLICLES: Quite true.~
23 Text |       sorts; one, which is mere flattery and disgraceful declamation;
24 Text |       in view was just a vulgar flattery:—was not that another of
25 Text |      true art of rhetoric or of flattery, or they would not have
26 Text |     because I have no powers of flattery or rhetoric, I am very sure
27 Text |        that he should avoid all flattery of himself as well as of


Laws
   Book
28 5    |        youth which is free from flattery, and at the same time not
29 6    |      yield to the influences of flattery, let them be publicly dishonoured;
30 10   |      wicked declare, prevail by flattery and prayers and incantations,
31 11   |        one steals upon you with flattery, when you are tossed on


The Republic
   Book
32 5    |       such, for example, as the flattery of the rich by the poor,
33 9    |        not a man reproached for flattery and meanness who subordinates


The Sophist
   Part
34 Text |          describe as possessing flattery or an art of making things


The Symposium
   Part
35 Text |     charge him with meanness or flattery; the actions of a lover
36 Text |      him is not to be accounted flattery or a dishonour to himself,
37 Text |       not open to the charge of flattery. And these two customs,


Theaetetus
   Part
38 Intro|   shrewd; he learns the arts of flattery, and is perfect in the practice