(...) Ion
     Part
 501 Text |              be inferior?~ION: That is true.~SOCRATES: Then, my dear
 502 Text |          flower to flower. And this is true. For the poet is a light
 503 Text |             not.~SOCRATES: And this is true of all the arts;—that which
 504 Text |          doings of that art?~ION: Very true.~SOCRATES: Then which will
 505 Text |                different matters?~ION: True.~SOCRATES: You know the


Laches
     Part
 506 Intro|            because his actions, in the true Dorian mode, correspond
 507 Intro|               present; in other words, true knowledge is not that of
 508 Intro|                conception. Yet several true intimations of the nature
 509 Intro|             well as physical: (2) That true courage is inseparable from
 510 Text |               house.~MELESIAS: That is true.~SOCRATES: Great care, then,
 511 Text |             not of the bridle?~NICIAS: True.~SOCRATES: And in a word,
 512 Text |             have in view?~NICIAS: Most true.~SOCRATES: And at present
 513 Text |            more works.~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES: And therefore,
 514 Text |               sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme,
 515 Text |                an one I deem to be the true musician, attuned to a fairer
 516 Text |              in the Lydian, but in the true Hellenic mode, which is
 517 Text |               to them.~LACHES: That is true, Socrates.~SOCRATES: And
 518 Text |              their minds?~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES: Then must we
 519 Text |               Plataea.~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES: That was my meaning
 520 Text |           should imagine.~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES: Now I was asking
 521 Text |             all of them?~LACHES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: And suppose I
 522 Text |              evil and hurtful?~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: And is anything
 523 Text |          endurance is courage?~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: But as to the
 524 Text |             the other?~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES: Then you would
 525 Text |              such a knowledge?~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: And he who descends
 526 Text |               do them.~LACHES: That is true.~SOCRATES: But foolish boldness
 527 Text |           hurtful to us.~LACHES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: Whereas courage
 528 Text |               a noble quality.~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES: And now on the
 529 Text |               is courage.~LACHES: Very true.~SOCRATES: And are we right
 530 Text |              now.~LACHES: That is most true.~SOCRATES: And is this condition
 531 Text |            SOCRATES: That is certainly true, Nicias.~NICIAS: And therefore
 532 Text |           doing the same.~LACHES: Very true, Nicias; and you are talking
 533 Text |               something, but it is not true.~SOCRATES: How so?~NICIAS:
 534 Text |                of virtue.~NICIAS: Very true.~SOCRATES: And you yourself
 535 Text |              and future evils?~NICIAS: True.~SOCRATES: And the same
 536 Text |              any time?~NICIAS: That is true.~SOCRATES: Then courage
 537 Text |                 That, as I suppose, is true.~SOCRATES: Then the answer


Laws
     Book
 538 1    |             you say, Stranger, is most true.~Megillus. Quite excellent,
 539 1    |         reverse of war.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And will he who
 540 1    |            like manner no one can be a true statesman, whether he aims
 541 1    |                of them.~Megillus. Very true.~Cleinias. And they have
 542 1    |                intelligence, others by true opinion only, and then mind
 543 1    |                in our search after the true and good, one of us may
 544 1    |                and to say what is most true.~Athenian. As there are
 545 1    |                we are alone.~Cleinias. True. And therefore you may be
 546 1    |       considered that this was equally true of pleasure; he should have
 547 1    |             worthy to be called in the true sense men and freemen. Tell
 548 1    |               above all others, and is true also of most other states
 549 1    |                Cleinias. That again is true.~Athenian. And if there
 550 1    |               time of peace.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And that sort
 551 1    |               occasion.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Must we not appoint
 552 1    |                The last remark is very true, Stranger; and I see quite
 553 1    |                you have been saying is true?~Athenian. To be absolutely
 554 1    |             the common saying is quite true, that a good Athenian is
 555 1    |               he lives.~Cleinias. Very true; and we entirely agree with
 556 1    |             such a doctrine.~Athenian. True, I was; and I am ready still,
 557 1    |                may conceive this to be true in the same way of other
 558 1    |       accompaniment of pain.~Cleinias. True; but I hardly think that
 559 1    |              pleasures.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And does not
 560 1    |               and to states.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Does not this
 561 1    |                that is base.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Are not the moments
 562 1    |            Cleinias. That is certainly true.~Athenian. And this knowledge
 563 2    |              to them. As to wisdom and true and fixed opinions, happy
 564 2    |               saying is in our opinion true to nature or not. For men
 565 2    |              dance and song?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Then he who is
 566 2    |               is any or not.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Let us follow
 567 2    |                no use in talking about true education, whether Hellenic
 568 2    |                in them.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And is any harm
 569 2    |           years ago;—this is literally true and no exaggeration—their
 570 2    |             telling you about music is true and deserving of consideration,
 571 2    |               confidently say that the true use of music and of choral
 572 2    |          unable to be still?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Our young men
 573 2    |              our youth.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Is it altogether
 574 2    |         greatest number? Now is this a true way of speaking or of acting?~
 575 2    |                wisdom and courage; the true judge must not draw his
 576 2    |               other. And similarly the true legislator will persuade,
 577 2    |               the same.~Athenian. Most true, Cleinias; and I daresay
 578 2    |                Cleinias. That is quite true.~Athenian. Once more: Suppose
 579 2    |                both of them.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And which may
 580 2    |             his honour.~Athenian. Very true; and therefore it must be
 581 2    |         discreet he grows;—is not this true?~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
 582 2    |               up to us, which is their true rightness.~Cleinias. Just
 583 2    |            speaking of.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Then, if such
 584 2    |             false opinion; and this is true of all equality, for the
 585 2    |              whatever.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Do we not regard
 586 2    |               the good.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And those who
 587 2    |        pleasant, but for that which is true; and the truth of imitation
 588 2    |               whether the intention is true or false.~Cleinias. Certainly
 589 2    |              who does not know what is true be able to distinguish what
 590 2    |         proportions of a body, and the true situation of the parts;
 591 2    |              of beauty.~Athenian. Very true; and may we not say that
 592 2    |                he must know that it is true; and thirdly, that it has
 593 2    |            Orpheus says, “are ripe for true pleasure.” The experienced
 594 2    |               mankind.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Were we not saying
 595 2    |         reverence and shame?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And the guardians
 596 2    |              the voice.~Cleinias. Most true.~Athenian. And the sound
 597 2    |             choral art?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And one part
 598 2    |               so that if what I say is true, no city will need many
 599 3    |                another.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Let us suppose,
 600 3    |             who tended them?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And of cities
 601 3    |               world is.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Doubtless the
 602 3    |                men they believed to be true, and lived accordingly;
 603 3    |              explained.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. I should wish
 604 3    |              most just?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. After this they
 605 3    |          others not so well.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Then now we seem
 606 3    |              overthrew Troy.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And during the
 607 3    |         Messene, Lacedaemon.~Megillus. True.~Athenian. Temenus was the
 608 3    |               their kingdom.~Megillus. True.~Athenian. But can a kingship
 609 3    |            rebellious third.~Megillus. True.~Athenian. Many persons
 610 3    |               standing.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian. But then, my
 611 3    |                states?~Megillus. Quite true.~Athenian. And would not
 612 3    |               question.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian. Did you never
 613 3    |                is ruin. And if this be true, the legislator must endeavour
 614 3    |             compulsion.~Cleinias. Most true.~Athenian. There is a seventh
 615 3    |              or worse.”~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And may we suppose
 616 3    |              to be despised.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. There was small
 617 3    |                seven chiefs.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Let us note the
 618 3    |              with and corresponding to true reason, can be intemperate?~
 619 3    |               regular order.~Megillus. True.~Athenian. And ought not
 620 3    |                silver.~Megillus. Quite true.~Athenian. And now enough
 621 3    |             words, Athenian, are quite true, and worthy of yourself
 622 3    |            country.~Athenian. They are true, Megillus; and to you, who
 623 3    |              for themselves.~Megillus. True; but I wish that you would
 624 3    |                liberty?~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian. Consequent upon
 625 3    |                gainers.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian. And that was
 626 4    |                For I consider that the true lawgiver, like an archer,
 627 4    |        happiness of the state, yet the true legislator must from time
 628 4    |              the scene?~Cleinias. Most true.~Athenian. In each case
 629 4    |         legislator is by nature of the true sort, and that his strength
 630 4    |                after their rulers, the true state ought to be called
 631 4    |               this tradition, which is true, declares that cities of
 632 4    |               in any state?”~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. “Well,” they
 633 4    |                keenest.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And now, what
 634 4    |                 the words are far more true of him. And he who would
 635 4    |                the opposite of this is true: for the bad man has an
 636 4    |            speaks well.~Athenian. Very true: and now let me tell you
 637 4    |              state.”~Cleinias. That is true.~Athenian. May we not fairly
 638 4    |                doctors.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And whether they
 639 4    |               marriage?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And, according
 640 4    |        Athenian. And, according to the true order, the laws relating
 641 4    |         Cleinias. That I think is most true. And now, Stranger, without
 642 5    |               that of honours some are true and some are counterfeit.
 643 5    |              truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible,
 644 5    |              himself in the pursuit of true virtue, and reduces his
 645 5    |               be plain, if a man has a true taste of them, as will be
 646 5    |            clearly seen. But what is a true taste? That we have to learn
 647 5    |          intemperately. And if this is true, the inference clearly is
 648 5    |                know them; for they are true, and should be proclaimed
 649 5    |             him, but that he be always true and simple; and that no
 650 5    |                 that the state for the true interests of which he is
 651 5    |               inconsistently, that the true legislator desires to have
 652 5    |                a rogue. And if this is true, I can never assent to the
 653 5    |                Our statement, then, is true, that the very rich are
 654 6    |                 Cleinias. That is very true.~Athenian. Then let us recognize
 655 6    |         friendship,” is happy and also true; but there is obscurity
 656 6    |               justice, and is ever the true principle of states, at
 657 6    |         maturity; and this is not only true of plants, but of animals
 658 6    |                a short time?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And is not the
 659 6    |                law as a man wanting in true taste, and uninstructed
 660 6    |                the opposite.~Megillus. True.~Cleinias. Then what are
 661 6    |               their masters.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Now that each
 662 6    |               outline.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. The temples are
 663 6    |          labour, and did not know that true repose comes from labour,
 664 6    |          appears to me to be right and true, Cleinias.~Cleinias. Certainly.~
 665 6    |              subject of law.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Then let us return
 666 6    |               they do still?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Again, the practice
 667 6    |          tradition, and is very likely true.~Athenian. Some one might
 668 6    |                to them.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Let us keep in
 669 7    |              am saying.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Stranger. Am
 670 7    |            attained at five.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Well, and is
 671 7    |             very likely to arrive at a true conviction that without
 672 7    |         exercise of courage.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And we may say
 673 7    |              the soul.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Further, a cheerful
 674 7    |                animal.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Do not nurses,
 675 7    |          passed ill or well.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Does not the
 676 7    |                For I maintain that the true life should neither seek
 677 7    |               our laws.~Cleinias. Very true: we are disposed to agree
 678 7    |       dangerous of all things; this is true in the case of the seasons
 679 7    |                the habits of our minds—true of all things except, as
 680 7    |              pleasures.~Cleinias. Most true.~Athenian. Can any of us
 681 7    |               a moment.~Cleinias. Most true.~Athenian. Then we will
 682 7    |             ridiculous.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Were we not a
 683 7    |               fitting.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. But to honour
 684 7    |             them worse.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Again, we must
 685 7    |              than this?~Cleinias. Very true; yet much of what has been
 686 7    |            legislation.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian. Then now I may
 687 7    |                Athenian. That is quite true; and you mean to imply,
 688 7    |                of well; and if this be true, then I do affirm that much
 689 7    |              imitation.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And with this
 690 7    |              Cleinias. That, again, is true.~Athenian. Then let him
 691 7    |               body—that, I say, is the true sort; but the opposite is
 692 7    |                assigned to them a very true, and poetical, and rational
 693 7    |               noblest of dramas, which true law can alone perfect, as
 694 7    |              you have now said is very true and agreeable to nature.~
 695 7    |              far more fatal.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. All freemen,
 696 7    |              some way?~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. But if they are
 697 7    |               any one has any good and true notion which is for the
 698 7    |              shall we find any good or true notion about the stars?~
 699 7    |              wanderers.~Cleinias. Very true, Stranger; and in the course
 700 7    |             like yourselves.~Cleinias. True; but what is this study
 701 7    |         quickest. And if what I say is true, only just imagine that
 702 7    |               our praises would not be true, nor very agreeable to the
 703 7    |                of them.~Cleinias. Most true, if such is the fact.~Athenian.
 704 7    |           praise of a citizen; and the true legislator ought not only
 705 8    |            nearly as possible like the true ones, in order that the
 706 8    |         prepare the whole city for the true conflict of life? If any
 707 8    |                of his lusts.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Let this, then,
 708 8    |       according to our idea.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Then next we
 709 8    |               strength.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Neither of them
 710 8    |               in his mind the image of true law. How can we prove, that
 711 8    |               that what I am saying is true? He who would rightly consider
 712 8    |            excess love.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. The friendship
 713 8    |                of them.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian. Does not a little
 714 8    |              difficult.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian. Shall I try and
 715 9    |            observation.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. But we are fortunate.~
 716 9    |             well as writers? Is it not true that of all the writings
 717 9    |    consistently carried out?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. But then if we
 718 9    |             sufferings. And if this be true, are not the just and the
 719 9    |               and just.~Cleinias. Very true, Stranger.~Athenian. Then
 720 9    |           between them.~Cleinias. Very true, Stranger; there cannot
 721 9    |            many things.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. And pleasure
 722 9    |                things.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. A man may truly
 723 9    |          inferior to them; and this is true.~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
 724 9    |              ignorance.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. We are speaking
 725 9    |               of hopes, which aimed at true opinion about the best.
 726 9    |                 and what should be the true manner of instituting such
 727 9    |               in apprehending that the true art or politics is concerned,
 728 9    |              the abstract that this is true, yet if he be possessed
 729 9    |               of all. I speak of mind, true and free, and in harmony
 730 9    |             But although they are most true tales, they work on such
 731 10   |             they are useful, or at all true. Of the words of the ancients
 732 10   |             wait and consider if it be true or not; ask of others, and
 733 10   |             excellent.~Athenian. Quite true, Megillus and Cleinias,
 734 10   |          chance.~Cleinias. Is not that true?~Athenian. Well, philosophers
 735 10   |              assumptions which are not true.~Cleinias. How do you mean?~
 736 10   |                inviting them to lead a true life according to nature,
 737 10   |                and families!~Athenian. True, Cleinias; but then what
 738 10   |           really means.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Then, by Heaven,
 739 10   |            fallen into error about the true nature of the Gods.~Cleinias.
 740 10   |         transpositions. And if this is true, and if the soul is older
 741 10   |              nature; and this would be true if you proved that the soul
 742 10   |             the exact opposite of this true, or are some things in motion
 743 10   |              and lesser circles. “Very true.” And when you speak of
 744 10   |               the soul?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Let us assume
 745 10   |              every passion, and is the true principle of change and
 746 10   |             Athenian. According to the true order, the tenth was really
 747 10   |              principle?~Cleinias. Very true, and I quite agree.~Athenian.
 748 10   |                second.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. At this stage
 749 10   |                equal parts”?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. I mean, that
 750 10   |           equal parts.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. And what is the
 751 10   |          Athenian. Yes; and if this is true, do we still maintain that
 752 10   |          Cleinias. Nothing can be more true.~Athenian. Do you remember
 753 10   |             wishes and reasonings, and true opinions, and reflections,
 754 10   |                of evil.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Yes, very true;
 755 10   |              true.~Athenian. Yes, very true; the soul then directs all
 756 10   |       attention, deliberation, opinion true and false, joy and sorrow,
 757 10   |               the good path.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. But if the world
 758 10   |              soul guides it.~Cleinias. True again.~Athenian. Of what
 759 10   |                 Cleinias. That is most true.~Athenian. Then, after what
 760 10   |           cowardice of vice?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And the one is
 761 10   |              indolence.~Cleinias. Most true.~Athenian. Then not from
 762 10   |                 Cleinias. That is very true.~Athenian. Then the alternative
 763 10   |        Cleinias. Yes, that is probably true.~Athenian. Then all things
 764 10   |              it not can never form any true idea of the happiness or
 765 10   |                whole heaven?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And to what earthly
 766 10   |             injustice.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. What else can
 767 11   |                saying, which is also a true one—”To fight against two
 768 11   |              art, which is by nature a true thing; and he who is wronged
 769 11   |           traditions, long indeed, but true; and seeing that they are
 770 11   |               us that these things are true, if they are not to be regarded
 771 11   |              only he knows how to show true service to them.~Cleinias.
 772 11   |               And what do you call the true mode of service?~Athenian.
 773 12   |              shades or images; for the true and immortal being of each
 774 12   |                world below. If this be true, a man ought not to waste
 775 12   |                by us before?~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. Then, returning
 776 12   |            their craft?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. We do not want
 777 12   |            mere chance.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. In which, then,
 778 12   |              our aims.~Cleinias. Quite true.~Athenian. Then now we shall
 779 12   |            four kinds?~Athenian. Quite true.~Cleinias. And that mind
 780 12   |              nature.~Cleinias. That is true.~Athenian. I have now told
 781 12   |             also a definition to them, true knowledge consists in knowing
 782 12   |               alluding?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Did we not say
 783 12   |                a view to it.~Cleinias. True.~Athenian. And can any one
 784 12   |               all good things—that the true guardians of the laws ought
 785 12   |              Athenian. No man can be a true worshipper of the Gods who
 786 12   |            undertaking.~Cleinias. Very true, Megillus; and you must


Lysis
     Part
 787 Intro|                minister to them. Among true friends jealousy has no
 788 Intro|              compare Symposium).~It is true that friendships are apt
 789 Text |              is summoned by them.~Very true.~And you would be allowed
 790 Text |            interfere with you.~That is true, he said.~Then what can
 791 Text |             know what is best?~That is true.~And everything in which
 792 Text |             commit to us?~That is very true, Socrates, he replied.~Then
 793 Text |                yet attained to wisdom.~True.~And therefore you are not
 794 Text |            they are hated. Is not that true?~Yes, he said, quite true.~
 795 Text |              true?~Yes, he said, quite true.~In that case, the one loves,
 796 Text |             friend.~That appears to be true.~Then nothing which does
 797 Text |             think that what you say is true.~And, if so, not the lover,
 798 Text |                of that which is loved?~True.~And the hater will be the
 799 Text |                him.~That appears to be true.~But if the lover is not
 800 Text |            Lysis, that what you say is true, and that, if we had been
 801 Text |          nature and the universe.~Very true, he replied.~And are they
 802 Text |                be friends. Is not that true?~Yes, he said.~Then one
 803 Text |              like one another?~That is true.~But the real meaning of
 804 Text |                  Yes, he said, that is true.~Yes, I replied; and yet
 805 Text |               in so far as he is good?~True.~But then again, will not
 806 Text |                value one another?~Very true.~But see now, Lysis, whether
 807 Text |              be the friend of the bad.~True.~But neither can like be
 808 Text |               we were just now saying.~True.~And if so, that which is
 809 Text |              is neither good nor evil?~True.~And the body is compelled
 810 Text |              would be present in them?~True.~But that would not make
 811 Text |          health, and health is a good.~True.~And is health a friend,
 812 Text |                arrived, we shall stop?~True.~My fear is that all those
 813 Text |             principle is, there is the true ideal of friendship. Let
 814 Text |                 Is not this rather the true state of the case? All his
 815 Text |                 he said, appears to be true.~And the truly dear or ultimate
 816 Text |             any other or further dear.~True.~Then we have done with
 817 Text |                or friend. But with the true friend or dear, the case
 818 Text |                be no longer dear.~Very true, he replied: at any rate
 819 Text |                benefit us:—Is not that true?~Yes.~And in like manner
 820 Text |                the cause is destroyed.~True.~And have we not admitted
 821 Text |              because of the evil?~Very true.~But now our view is changed,
 822 Text |                in want is dear to him?~True.~And he is in want of that
 823 Text |                 Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must
 824 Text |               perhaps be allowed.~Very true.~And shall we further say
 825 Text |                the friend of the good.~True.~But that too was a position


Menexenus
     Part
 826 Pre  |             will find in the Hippias a true Socratic spirit; they will
 827 Text |                children, but their own true mother; she bore them and
 828 Text |               whom she regarded as her true offspring. And these are
 829 Text |              And that reputation was a true one, for the defeat which
 830 Text |              let them be our chief and true panegyrists, who show in
 831 Text |              their lives that they are true men, and had men for their


Meno
     Part
 832 Intro|             given this specimen of the true nature of teaching, the
 833 Intro|             attained—that ‘there is no true education among us.’~There
 834 Intro|        overlooked. Even if there be no true knowledge, as is proved
 835 Intro|          supernatural or divine is the true basis of human life. To
 836 Intro|             but not science. This is a true fact of psychology, which
 837 Intro|       pre-existence is combined with a true but partial view of the
 838 Intro|             and priestesses:’ (1) that true knowledge is a knowledge
 839 Intro|                popular teacher and the true philosopher. He seems, like
 840 Intro|                the manner in which the true teacher may draw out the
 841 Intro|                her mansions is exactly true, but he ‘ventures to think
 842 Intro|               something of the kind is true.’ And in the Meno, after
 843 Intro|              something of the kind was true.’ It is the spirit, not
 844 Intro|         imparted to him because God is true (compare Republic). It has
 845 Intro|             Plato, insists that God is true and incapable of deception (
 846 Intro|             their predecessors had any true conception of language or
 847 Text |           think much alike.~MENO: Very true.~SOCRATES: Then as he is
 848 Text |              SOCRATES: And is not this true of size and strength? If
 849 Text |          temperance and justice?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And can either
 850 Text |             than the round?~MENO: Very true.~SOCRATES: To what then
 851 Text |              small or too large?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And there is
 852 Text |         similar phenomena.~MENO: Quite true.~SOCRATES: The answer, Meno,
 853 Text |         another in that respect?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And if one man
 854 Text |                whether what you say is true from another point of view;
 855 Text |               be equally virtue?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Then the acquisition
 856 Text |                whether their words are true—they say that the soul of
 857 Text |                me that what you say is true, I wish that you would.~
 858 Text |              the line is double.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Observe him while
 859 Text |              figure of four feet?~BOY: True.~SOCRATES: And is not that
 860 Text |               four times as much.~BOY: True.~SOCRATES: Four times four
 861 Text |           fancies that he knows.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Is he not better
 862 Text |              have a double side.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: But do you suppose
 863 Text |                you will remember.~BOY: True.~SOCRATES: And does not
 864 Text |                 he did not know?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: But still he
 865 Text |                not know may still have true notions of that which he
 866 Text |             him is recollection?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And this knowledge
 867 Text |              if there have been always true thoughts in him, both at
 868 Text |             virtue is knowledge?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And virtue makes
 869 Text |              we call profitable?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And yet these
 870 Text |            sense he is profited?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And the same
 871 Text |                are hurtful?~MENO: Very true.~SOCRATES: And in general,
 872 Text |               MENO: That appears to be true.~SOCRATES: If then virtue
 873 Text |             and harmed by folly?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And the wise
 874 Text |                is not this universally true of human nature? All other
 875 Text |              saying, Socrates, is very true.~SOCRATES: But if this is
 876 Text |               SOCRATES: But if this is true, then the good are not by
 877 Text |       incapable of being taught?~MENO: True; but do you think that there
 878 Text |               they are teachers in any true sense whose ideas are in
 879 Text |                MENO: That, I think, is true.~SOCRATES: Then virtue cannot
 880 Text |                useful only if they are true guides to us of action—there
 881 Text |             SOCRATES: And while he has true opinion about that which
 882 Text |                Exactly.~SOCRATES: Then true opinion is as good a guide
 883 Text |              also right opinion.~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: Then right opinion
 884 Text |          illustration of the nature of true opinions: while they abide
 885 Text |          honourable and excellent than true opinion, because fastened
 886 Text |            that knowledge differs from true opinion is no matter of
 887 Text |              also right in saying that true opinion leading the way
 888 Text |               who has knowledge?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And surely the
 889 Text |                no teachers, not?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES: But surely we
 890 Text |               guides are knowledge and true opinion—these are the guides
 891 Text |              but the guides of man are true opinion and knowledge.~MENO:
 892 Text |                 MENO: That is probably true, Socrates.~SOCRATES: But


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 893 Intro|                friend.’ ‘That is quite true.’ ‘And can they hear the
 894 Intro|              abstract.’ ‘That is quite true.’ ‘And supposing you embrace
 895 Intro|           another without end.’ ‘Quite true.’ ‘The theory, then, of
 896 Intro|            would be a contradiction.’ ‘True; and therefore any relation
 897 Intro|         Pythagoreans. And Plato with a true instinct recognizes him
 898 Intro|             light, which is indeed the true answer ‘that the ideas are
 899 Intro|     philosopher never clearly saw that true ideas were only universal
 900 Intro|             have become trivial; their true nature as abstract terms
 901 Intro|          imagined. But can all this be true? ‘I think not.’~1.b. Let
 902 Intro|              another. And this will be true also of the one in relation
 903 Intro|              which is not one. Is this true of becoming as well as being?
 904 Intro|            change in no time. Which is true also of all the other changes,
 905 Intro|          consequences which is equally true of the others, and may be
 906 Intro|               being; for that which is true is, and it is true that
 907 Intro|            which is true is, and it is true that the one is not. And
 908 Intro|     destruction of the human mind. The true answer to the difficulty
 909 Intro|                now reconciled; and the true nature of Not-being is discovered
 910 Intro|             Being Himself, in whom all true theological ideas live and
 911 Intro|              the Persians.~To have the true use of words we must compare
 912 Intro|               laying; there is nothing true which is not from some point
 913 Intro|           imperfect expressions of His true nature; but we do not therefore
 914 Text |               recited it to him.~Quite true.~And could we hear it? I
 915 Text |                not fully apprehend the true motive of the composition,
 916 Text |              of greatness as one.~Very true, said Socrates.~And if you
 917 Text |            which partakes of it?~Quite true.~The theory, then, that
 918 Text |           would be no longer absolute.~True, he said; and therefore
 919 Text |               particularly noted.~Very true, he said.~But, then, what
 920 Text |             experience anything.~Quite true, said Parmenides; but I
 921 Text |            would be many, and not one?~True.~But, surely, it ought to
 922 Text |              the view of the extremes?~True.~Then the one would have
 923 Text |                no longer one, but two?~True.~Then one cannot be anywhere,
 924 Text |               wholly without anything.~True.~And is there not a still
 925 Text |              by change in itself?~Very true.~Then in respect of any
 926 Text |             and could not be in other?~True.~Then one is never in the
 927 Text |             one, and would not be one.~True.~And if the same with other,
 928 Text |               other, and nothing else.~True.~Then not by virtue of being
 929 Text |              becomes many and not one.~True.~But, if there were no difference
 930 Text |              one; which is impossible.~True.~Then the one can never
 931 Text |                affections is likeness.~True.~But the one, as appears,
 932 Text |             that to which it is equal.~True.~And if greater or less
 933 Text |         inequality or unlikeness.~Very true.~How then can one, being
 934 Text |            something which is younger?~True.~Then, that which becomes
 935 Text |          younger, and to nothing else.~True.~Then that which becomes
 936 Text |          itself?~Yes.~But again, it is true that it cannot become for
 937 Text |               will be, hereafter.~Most true.~But are there any modes
 938 Text |             one neither is nor is one?~True.~But that which is not admits
 939 Text |             infer.~But can all this be true about the one?~I think not.~
 940 Text |              partakes of being’?~Quite true.~Once more then let us ask,
 941 Text |             has turned out to be many?~True.~But now, let us abstract
 942 Text |              and odd taken even times.~True.~And if this is so, does
 943 Text |         divisions of it have no limit.~True.~Then it has the greatest
 944 Text |        whatever may be the size of it?~True.~But reflect:—Can one, in
 945 Text |              of being, unless divided.~True.~And that which has parts
 946 Text |        co-extensive.~Certainly that is true.~The one itself, then, having
 947 Text |           being, is many and infinite?~True.~Then not only the one which
 948 Text |                 or a union of the two?~True.~And if this is the case,
 949 Text |             none is outside the whole.~True.~And all the parts are contained
 950 Text |             will be in itself.~That is true.~But then, again, the whole
 951 Text |               must be in another.~Very true.~The one then, regarded
 952 Text |             the same, which is itself.~True.~And that which is ever
 953 Text |                not at rest, in motion?~True.~Then the one being always
 954 Text |              will be in another place?~True.~Then the one has been shown
 955 Text |             will be other than itself?~True.~Well, then, if anything
 956 Text |              be other than the others?~True.~But, consider:—Are not
 957 Text |               in the same. Is not that true?~Yes.~And since the other
 958 Text |                be in anything that is.~True.~Then the other will never
 959 Text |             have been in some way one.~True.~Nor can the not-one be
 960 Text |             and neither more nor less?~True.~And if neither more nor
 961 Text |            other do you give the name?~True.~Then when we say that the
 962 Text |                 and of no other?~Quite true.~Then the one which is other
 963 Text |                other than every thing.~True.~Again, the like is opposed
 964 Text |             And the other to the same?~True again.~And the one was also
 965 Text |             the opposite of the other.~True.~Then the one will be both
 966 Text |          otherwise affected is unlike.~True.~Then because the one is
 967 Text |              itself which was a whole?~True.~And also in other things?~
 968 Text |                it touches is situated?~True.~Then the one, if it is
 969 Text |             thing can be between them.~True.~Two things, then, at the
 970 Text |              is added to the contacts.~True.~Whatever is the whole number
 971 Text |               will be always one less.~True.~But if there be only one,
 972 Text |               have no part in the one?~True.~Then they have no number,
 973 Text |           touch itself and the others?~True.~Further—is the one equal
 974 Text |            small but actual smallness.~True.~Neither will greatness
 975 Text |            smallness is wholly absent.~True.~But absolute greatness
 976 Text |               absolute greatness.~Very true.~Then other things not greater
 977 Text |               course.~And this will be true also of the relation of
 978 Text |               one thing be in another.~True.~And since there is nothing
 979 Text |              others less than the one.~True.~The one, then, will be
 980 Text |            that than which it is less.~True.~And being greater and less
 981 Text |           being at a future time?~Very true.~Then the one, since it
 982 Text |              of becoming between them.~True.~But that which is becoming
 983 Text |            than that which is younger?~True.~Then the one is younger
 984 Text |               older than other things?~True.~What would you say of another
 985 Text |               of becoming is going on?~True.~Then the one is of the
 986 Text |             are no longer becoming so.~True.~And the one which is does
 987 Text |               to it and belongs to it?~True.~And since we have at this
 988 Text |                one.~Certainly, that is true.~Yet once more and for the
 989 Text |               not partake of the same.~True.~And is there not also a
 990 Text |              diminish or be equalized?~True.~And when being in motion
 991 Text |               change without changing.~True.~When then does it change;
 992 Text |         becomes nor is destroyed.~Very true.~And on the same principle,
 993 Text |           diminution, or equalization.~True.~All these, then, are the
 994 Text |               other than the one.~Very true.~Nor are the others altogether
 995 Text |              the whole and in the one.~True.~Then the others than the
 996 Text |              otherwise it is not each.~True.~But when we speak of the
 997 Text |                itself can be one.~Very true.~Both the whole and the
 998 Text |              is the whole of the part.~True.~And will not the things
 999 Text |                 they would be nothing.~True.~But, seeing that the things
1000 Text |               one is not present?~Very true.~And if we were to abstract