The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |       need not mention; he was a politician whom I selected for examination—
 2 Text |      what deters me from being a politician. And rightly, as I think.
 3 Text |         too honest a man to be a politician and live, I did not go where


Euthydemus
   Part
 4 Intro|           half philosopher, half politician; one of a class who have


Gorgias
   Part
 5 Intro|         is himself the only true politician of his age. In other passages,
 6 Intro|    Apology, he disclaims being a politician at all. There he is convinced
 7 Intro|          is he unwilling to be a politician, although he foresees the
 8 Intro|    heaven’ (Republic).~The false politician is the serving-man of the
 9 Intro|       obedient servant. The true politician, if he would rule men, must
10 Intro|         her into port.~The false politician asks not what is true, but
11 Intro|           Socrates, who is not a politician at all, tells us that he
12 Intro|         that he is the only real politician of his time. Let us illustrate
13 Intro|   commonly divorced—the ordinary politician is the interpreter or executor
14 Text |          politics; I am the only politician of my time. Now, seeing


Phaedrus
   Part
15 Text |       the third class shall be a politician, or economist, or trader;
16 Text |         you not know that when a politician writes, he begins with the


Protagoras
   Part
17 Intro|  distinguish between the trained politician and the untrained; (2) Because


The Republic
   Book
18 6    | multitude; and they know that no politician is honest, nor is there


The Statesman
   Part
19 Intro|          But now I recognize the politician and his troop, the chief
20 Text |        of men in the case of the politician, although it was justly
21 Text |          I did not recognize the politician and his troop.~YOUNG SOCRATES: