Cratylus
   Part
 1 Text |           but what is lusiteloun (profitable)?~SOCRATES: I suppose, Hermogenes,
 2 Text |         people do not mean by the profitable the gainful or that which
 3 Text |          of swift. You regard the profitable (lusiteloun), as that which
 4 Text |        advantageous), lusiteloun (profitable), kerdaleon (gainful), agathon (


Euthydemus
   Part
 5 Intro|        must be of a kind which is profitable and may be used. What knowledge


Laws
   Book
 6 2    |       pleasant lives, or that the profitable and gainful is one thing,
 7 2    |        but that the right and the profitable, the good and the noble,


Meno
   Part
 8 Text |          we are good, then we are profitable; for all good things are
 9 Text |           for all good things are profitable?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then
10 Text |          SOCRATES: Then virtue is profitable?~MENO: That is the only
11 Text |        the like of these, we call profitable?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And
12 Text |        principle which makes them profitable or the reverse? Are they
13 Text |         the reverse? Are they not profitable when they are rightly used,
14 Text |       another sort, are sometimes profitable and sometimes hurtful; as,
15 Text |    learned or done with sense are profitable, but when done without sense
16 Text |       soul, and is admitted to be profitable, it must be wisdom or prudence,
17 Text |     things of the soul are either profitable or hurtful in themselves,
18 Text | themselves, but they are all made profitable or hurtful by the addition
19 Text |        and therefore if virtue is profitable, virtue must be a sort of
20 Text |           do not they also become profitable or hurtful, accordingly
21 Text |         and virtue, as we say, is profitable?~MENO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
22 Text |         are necessarily useful or profitable. Were we not right in admitting


Phaedrus
   Part
23 Text |     himself. Verily, a lover is a profitable guardian and associate for


The Republic
   Book
24 1    |          I affirm injustice to be profitable and justice not. ~What else
25 1    |        you were maintaining to be profitable had been admitted by you
26 1    |     happiness, and not misery, is profitable? ~Of course. ~Then, my blessed
27 1    |       injustice can never be more profitable than justice. ~Let this,
28 2    |        that injustice is far more profitable to the individual than justice,
29 2    |         is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty; and they
30 3    |  miserable; and that injustice is profitable when undetected, but that
31 4    |       answered: Which is the more profitable, to be just and act justly
32 7    | conversion is rendered useful and profitable; or, on the other hand,
33 9    |          who maintains that it is profitable for the human creature to
34 9    |       that, if he be right, it is profitable for this creature to feast
35 10   |         of Hellas, and that he is profitable for education and for the


The Symposium
   Part
36 Text |     advantage of making them more profitable to us. They shall walk upright