(...) Phaedrus
     Part
1001 Intro|            natures and characters of men, which Socrates at the commencement
1002 Intro|           Plato says of the loves of men must be transferred to the
1003 Intro|           such as makes the names of men and women famous, from domestic
1004 Intro|             souls of gods as well as men under the figure of two
1005 Intro|              passed in many forms of men and animals, is spent in
1006 Intro|            bodily delights. ‘But all men cannot receive this saying’:
1007 Intro|              way of parallelism with men? The latter is the more
1008 Intro|            serious in distinguishing men from animals by their recognition
1009 Intro|              different characters of men by referring them back to
1010 Intro|          Plato speaks is the love of men or of women. It is really
1011 Intro|             that friendships between men were a more sacred tie,
1012 Intro|          influence over the lives of men. And these two, though opposed,
1013 Intro|              spiritually discerned,’ men feel that in pictures and
1014 Intro|            in dissecting them? Young men, like Phaedrus, are enamoured
1015 Intro|              into the ‘characters of men.’ Once more, has not medical
1016 Intro|       epistles known and read of all men.’ There may be a use in
1017 Intro|              or ‘the saying of wiser men than ourselves that a man
1018 Intro|     rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer
1019 Intro|             If at any time the great men of the world should die
1020 Intro|              They may bring gifts to men such as the world has never
1021 Intro|              were to suppose no more men of genius to be produced,
1022 Intro|       formerly that ‘the thoughts of men are widened with the process
1023 Intro|        nature will tend to awaken in men larger and more liberal
1024 Text |          lover of knowledge, and the men who dwell in the city are
1025 Text |             what is hateful to other men, in order to please his
1026 Text |           always thinking that other men are as emulous of him as
1027 Text |        exceed him in wealth, or with men of education, lest they
1028 Text |             with you. Ancient sages, men and women, who have spoken
1029 Text |          sufficiently evident to all men, that he desires above all
1030 Text |            the eyes both of gods and men. Consider this, fair youth,
1031 Text |          might be buying honour from men at the price of sinning
1032 Text |              and a god?~PHAEDRUS: So men say.~SOCRATES: But that
1033 Text |        chiefest blessings granted to men. For prophecy is a madness,
1034 Text |     generation or of relation, which men call existence, but knowledge
1035 Text |             here when in the form of men. And at the end of the first
1036 Text |             whom I am talking, is by men called love, and among the
1037 Text |              they may impart them to men.~PHAEDRUS: What gifts do
1038 Text |           cannot.~SOCRATES: And when men are deceived and their notions
1039 Text |        PHAEDRUS: Yes, they are royal men; but their art is not the
1040 Text |              of rhetoric which these men teach and of which they
1041 Text |           Thirdly, having classified men and speeches, and their
1042 Text |            or is a question in which men are concerned who are just
1043 Text |            for that in courts of law men literally care nothing about
1044 Text |             he was assaulted by more men than one; the other should
1045 Text |           speaking and acting before men, but in order that he may
1046 Text |           there is a saying of wiser men than ourselves, that a man
1047 Text |           much about the opinions of men?~PHAEDRUS: Your question
1048 Text |            prophetic utterances. The men of old, unlike in their
1049 Text |            disgrace to him, whatever men may say. For not to know


Philebus
     Part
1050 Intro|           many on the minds of young men in their first fervour of
1051 Intro|             energy is not granted to men. The most sensual pleasure,
1052 Intro|            mind, in the relations of men to one another. For the
1053 Intro|            and they, who were better men and nearer the gods than
1054 Intro|         agrees with the testimony of men of old, who affirmed mind
1055 Intro|           declaring that the best of men, if he be in pain, is bad?~
1056 Intro|            is the virtue of ordinary men who live in the world of
1057 Intro|           general idea seems to such men a contradiction. They do
1058 Intro|       speculations which intelligent men might ‘agree to discard.’
1059 Intro|         slumber in the minds of most men, yet in all of us there
1060 Intro|            successive generations of men. If we ask: Which of these
1061 Intro|            interest to that of other men, may become a passion to
1062 Intro|            explained. Admitting that men rest for a time in inferior
1063 Intro|              the universal fact that men desire it. The obligation
1064 Intro|              is capable of inspiring men like a passion, and is the
1065 Intro|       noblest and most disinterested men who have lived in this century,
1066 Intro|             no further advanced than men were in the age of Socrates
1067 Intro|      happiness and that of all other men would coincide, in the imperfect
1068 Intro|            difficulty by saying that men will always find pleasure
1069 Intro|               And as words influence men’s thoughts, we fear that
1070 Intro|            the higher the view which men take of life, the more they
1071 Intro|           another. The characters of men also differ; and some are
1072 Intro|           different characters among men, should we not allow them
1073 Intro|             be thankful to the great men who have provided for all
1074 Intro|    philosophy had been excluded. All men have principles which are
1075 Intro|             we endeavour to bind all men within the limits of a single
1076 Intro|      prejudices and superstitions of men may be brought:—whatever
1077 Intro|              not tend to the good of men is not of God. And the ideal
1078 Intro|           army. For in human actions men do not always require broad
1079 Intro|       politics, in religion, leading men to ask how evil may be diminished
1080 Intro|           differ widely even in good men; benevolence and self-love
1081 Intro|            view the greatest good of men is obedience to law: the
1082 Intro|             the will of God that all men should be as he is. It lives
1083 Text |           the property of making all men happy.~PROTARCHUS: Yes,
1084 Text |              has the power of making men happy, turn out to be more
1085 Text |            principle about which all men are always in a difficulty,
1086 Text |            in a difficulty, and some men sometimes against their
1087 Text |             that all of us are young men, is there not a danger that
1088 Text |      conceive, the gods tossed among men by the hands of a new Prometheus,
1089 Text |             down to us. But the wise men of our time are either too
1090 Text |              an individual or of all men is one and yet infinite.~
1091 Text |              in the number of famous men.~PROTARCHUS: I think that
1092 Text |              True.~SOCRATES: And all men, as we were saying just
1093 Text |            pleasures in the souls of men which are a ludicrous imitation
1094 Text |         themselves to be much better men than they are.~PROTARCHUS:
1095 Text |             though he be the best of men; and again, that he who
1096 Text |               for I am sure that all men who have a grain of intelligence
1097 Text |            they trouble the souls of men, which are our habitation,
1098 Text |            honourable among gods and men.~PROTARCHUS: Clearly, and


Protagoras
     Part
1099 Intro|           after Prometheus had given men the arts, Zeus is represented
1100 Intro|      imparted to a few only, but all men are to be partakers of them.
1101 Intro|             politicians. (1) For all men have the political virtues
1102 Intro|              for beasts, and not for men. (3) Again, would parents
1103 Intro|      teachers of virtue, whereas all men are teachers in a degree.
1104 Intro|              come into good society. Men’s own thoughts should supply
1105 Intro|               is not the doctrine of men in general, who maintain
1106 Intro|            notion that all civilized men are teachers of virtue;
1107 Intro|            that ‘he, above all other men, is bound to say “that wisdom
1108 Intro|            both of the characters of men and aspects of the truth,
1109 Text |             the wisest of all living men, if you are willing to accord
1110 Text |            was but a child;) and all men praise him, Socrates; he
1111 Text |             over the art which makes men eloquent?~Yes, I replied,
1112 Text |               and several other wise men.~To this we agreed, and
1113 Text |             prospect of hearing wise men talk; we ourselves took
1114 Text |             that you promise to make men good citizens?~That, Socrates,
1115 Text |            the father of these young men, who gave them excellent
1116 Text |              speak to you as younger men in an apologue or myth,
1117 Text |          justice and reverence among men:—Should he distribute them
1118 Text |          justice and reverence among men, or shall I give them to
1119 Text |        deceived in thinking that all men regard every man as having
1120 Text |           madness. They say that all men ought to profess honesty
1121 Text |       contrary evil qualities, other men are angry with him, and
1122 Text |             own citizens, like other men, punish and take vengeance
1123 Text |           you about the sons of good men. What is the reason why
1124 Text |          What is the reason why good men teach their sons the knowledge
1125 Text |             the quality of which all men must be partakers, and which
1126 Text |              am saying be true, good men have their sons taught other
1127 Text |            encomia of ancient famous men, which he is required to
1128 Text |            seeing that justice calls men to account. Now when there
1129 Text |             were to be compared with men who had no education, or
1130 Text |             If you were living among men such as the man-haters in
1131 Text |   discontented, and why? Because all men are teachers of virtue,
1132 Text |              be, and above all other men to have the knowledge which
1133 Text |             no human care could make men good; but I know better
1134 Text |             justice and reverence to men; and several times while
1135 Text |            to the whole face.~And do men have some one part and some
1136 Text |              true, he said.~And when men act rightly and advantageously
1137 Text |              me. You think that some men are temperate, and yet unjust?~
1138 Text |              insincere expression of men uttering falsehoods contrary
1139 Text |          which in the opinion of all men is the hardest of all things,
1140 Text |      superiority were disclosed, all men would be practising their
1141 Text |         conversation with their wise men, and are no longer satisfied
1142 Text |        themselves forbid their young men to go out into other cities—
1143 Text |        Lacedaemon and Crete not only men but also women have a pride
1144 Text |             in the catalogue of wise men was the Lacedaemonian Chilo.
1145 Text |       inscriptions, which are in all men’s mouths—‘Know thyself,’
1146 Text |           there were some truly good men, and there were others who
1147 Text |        country, or the like. Now bad men, when their parents or country
1148 Text |       company are real gentlemen and men of education, you will see
1149 Text |       company like this of ours, and men such as we profess to be,
1150 Text |            the other (Il.),’~for all men who have a companion are
1151 Text |            You may observe that many men are utterly unrighteous,
1152 Text |              When you speak of brave men, do you mean the confident,
1153 Text |             be a base thing, for the men of whom we are speaking
1154 Text |           confidence may be given to men by art, and also, like ability,
1155 Text |         admit, Protagoras, that some men live well and others ill?~
1156 Text |               but I, above all other men, am bound to say that wisdom
1157 Text |            of another mind; and that men are commonly supposed to
1158 Text |             this have said that when men act contrary to knowledge
1159 Text |          endeavour to show you. When men are overcome by eating and
1160 Text |           for you also admitted that men err in their choice of pleasures
1161 Text |         intemperate, and ignorant of men are among the most courageous;
1162 Text |            danger?~Yes, Socrates, so men say.~Very true, I said.
1163 Text |            self-control, which makes men rush into dangers, has been
1164 Text |           still think that there are men who are most ignorant and
1165 Text |               I admire you above all men whom I know, and far above
1166 Text |              know, and far above all men of your age; and I believe


The Republic
     Book
1167 1    |              be a gathering of young men, and we will have a good
1168 1    |             company with these young men; we are old friends, and
1169 1    |            than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers
1170 1    |              what my own feeling is. Men of my age flock together;
1171 1    |            which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers;
1172 1    |            is common to them and all men. And hence they are very
1173 1    |            or debts which he owes to men. Now to this peace of mind
1174 1    |              was excellent above all men in theft and perjury." ~
1175 1    |             Of course. ~And will not men who are injured be deteriorated
1176 1    |          justice? ~To be sure. ~Then men who are injured are of necessity
1177 1    |             musician by his art make men unmusical? ~Certainly not. ~
1178 1    |             the just by justice make men unjust, or speaking generally,
1179 1    |            in that case, O wisest of men, is there any escape from
1180 1    |          criminal is the happiest of men, and the sufferers or those
1181 1    |            case of lesser offices do men never take them willingly
1182 1    |            payment which to the best men is the great inducement
1183 1    |            attraction for them; good men do not wish to be openly
1184 1    |            composed entirely of good men, then to avoid office would
1185 1    |         claims to have more than all men. ~And the unjust man will
1186 1    |           that to speak as we did of men who are evil acting at any
1187 2    |        always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus'
1188 2    |       Secondly, I will show that all men who practise justice do
1189 2    |           than the good. And so when men have both done and suffered
1190 2    |           reason of the inability of men to do injustice. For no
1191 2    |         respects be like a god among men. Then the actions of the
1192 2    |          there he is unjust. For all men believe in their hearts
1193 2    |               Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought
1194 2    |             thus, Socrates, gods and men are said to unite in making
1195 2    |           quite ready to call wicked men happy, and to honor them
1196 2    |              and misery to many good men, and good and happiness
1197 2    |        mendicant prophets go to rich men's doors and persuade them
1198 2    |            gods may be influenced by men; for he also says: ~"The
1199 2    |              from their purpose; and men pray to them and avert their
1200 2    |            the way in which gods and men regard them, how are their
1201 2    |              all my days?" ~For what men say is that, if I am really
1202 2    |              mind both with gods and men, in life and after death,
1203 2    |           because he also knows that men are not just of their own
1204 2    |              us, and ending with the men of our own time-no one has
1205 2    |           seen or unseen by gods and men. ~I had always admired the
1206 2    |            must include four or five men. ~Clearly. ~And how will
1207 2    |              tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond
1208 2    |           citizens; this is what old men and old women should begin
1209 2    |            most things that occur to men. For few are the goods of
1210 2    |              will we allow our young men to hear the words of AEschylus,
1211 2    |               God plants guilt among men when he desires utterly
1212 2    |        allowed, is hated of gods and men? ~What do you mean? he said. ~
1213 2    |             by the gods, but also by men? ~Yes. ~Whereas the lie
1214 2    |             our guardians, as far as men can be, should be true worshippers
1215 3    |             for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free,
1216 3    |      weepings and wailings of famous men? ~They will go with the
1217 3    |            is least in need of other men. ~True, he said. ~And for
1218 3    |            fortune, is to him of all men least terrible. ~Assuredly. ~
1219 3    |           the lamentations of famous men, and making them over to
1220 3    |            good for anything), or to men of a baser sort, that those
1221 3    |            have Sarpedon, dearest of men to me, subdued at the hands
1222 3    |           worth, even if only mortal men, must not be represented
1223 3    |         useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines
1224 3    |         again, to make the wisest of men say that nothing in his
1225 3    |            who, while other gods and men were asleep and he the only
1226 3    |           are done or told by famous men, these they ought to see
1227 3    |              who was the gentlest of men and third in descent from
1228 3    |     overweening contempt of gods and men. ~You are quite right, he
1229 3    |              what shall we say about men? That is clearly the remaining
1230 3    |         shall have to say that about men; poets and story-tellers
1231 3    |             they tell us that wicked men are often happy, and the
1232 3    |             are not to be said about men is a question which we cannot
1233 3    |           that they ought to be good men, to imitate a woman, whether
1234 3    |             not. ~And surely not bad men, whether cowards or any
1235 3    |              the action or speech of men or women who are mad or
1236 3    |           maintain, and much less to men. Certainly. ~In the next
1237 3    |           say of their food; for the men are in training for the
1238 3    |              into the hands of other men whom he makes lords and
1239 3    |             we have been describing, men fill themselves with waters
1240 3    |             reason why in youth good men often appear to be simple,
1241 3    |             gets into the company of men of virtue, who have the
1242 3    |      interests. ~Those are the right men. ~And they will have to
1243 3    |            said, do you not see that men are unwillingly deprived
1244 3    |    tragedians. I only mean that some men are changed by persuasion
1245 3    |         power, to harm us. The young men whom we before called guardians
1246 3    |            trained warriors, who are men of temperance and courage;
1247 3    |         dross which is current among men, and ought not to pollute
1248 4    |         better for it; whereas other men acquire lands, and build
1249 4    |            to their food, like other men; and therefore they cannot,
1250 4    |            likely be the happiest of men; but that our aim in founding
1251 4    |              against an army of rich men. ~That is true, he said. ~
1252 4    |     wonderful in that. ~And yet rich men probably have a greater
1253 4    |               and grow into sensible men, they will easily see their
1254 4    |              laws about them on good men; what regulations are necessary
1255 4    |            States which act like the men whom I was just now describing.
1256 4    |             States are as bad as the men; and I am very far from
1257 4    |           seen or unseen by gods and men. ~Nonsense, said Glaucon:
1258 4    |      ignorance, but by knowledge, do men counsel well? ~Clearly. ~
1259 4    |             quality which makes such men and such States is justice,
1260 4    |           seen or unseen of gods and men, or to be unjust and act
1261 5    |            the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of
1262 5    |         honors and loves, among wise men who love him, need occasion
1263 5    |        proper place. The part of the men has been played out, and
1264 5    |              am invited by you. ~For men born and educated like our
1265 5    |       started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians
1266 5    |              have the same duties as men, they must have the same
1267 5    |            which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastics.
1268 5    |          they must practise like the men? ~That is the inference,
1269 5    |       palaestra, exercising with the men, especially when they are
1270 5    |            than the enthusiastic old men who, in spite of wrinkles
1271 5    |          partially in the actions of men, or not at all? And is the
1272 5    |            And do not the natures of men and women differ very much
1273 5    |        Whether the tasks assigned to men and to women should not
1274 5    |         inconsistency in saying that men and women, whose natures
1275 5    |         different pursuits, and that men's and women's natures are
1276 5    |    opposition in nature between bald men and hairy men; and if this
1277 5    |           between bald men and hairy men; and if this is admitted
1278 5    |        admitted by us, then, if bald men are cobblers, we should
1279 5    |              should forbid the hairy men to be cobblers, and conversely? ~
1280 5    |            only in women bearing and men begetting children, this
1281 5    |              things superior to many men, yet on the whole what you
1282 5    |            both; all the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women
1283 5    |         impose all our enactments on men and none of them on women? ~
1284 5    |     differences of this sort? ~Yes. ~Men and women alike possess
1285 5    |         companions and colleagues of men who have similar qualities
1286 5    |               Would you say that all men are equal in excellence,
1287 5    |            system to be more perfect men, or the cobblers whose education
1288 5    |              the State than that the men and women of a State should
1289 5    |      legislator, having selected the men, will now select the women
1290 5    |          held by women as well as by men – Yes - ~The proper officers
1291 5    |          Certainly, he said, both in men and women those years are
1292 5    |              him: shame, which makes men refrain from laying hands
1293 5    |            the pains and pangs which men experience in bringing up
1294 5    |             agree then, I said, that men and women are to have a
1295 5    |          women are to share with the men? And in so doing they will
1296 5    |              of their valor, whether men or women, with hymns and
1297 5    |           guardians of speech-gifted men"? ~Yes; and we accept his
1298 5    |              is to be found in other men? ~The approximation will
1299 5    |            same is true of ambitious men; if they cannot command
1300 6    |           with such a study. ~And to men like him, I said, when perfected
1301 6    |             manner in which the best men are treated in their own
1302 6    |             these reasons, and among men like these, philosophy,
1303 6    |           philosophy, what manner of men are they who aspire after
1304 6    |           which is seldom seen among men? ~Rare indeed. ~And what
1305 6    |            perfection young and old, men and women alike, and fashion
1306 6    |          class out of which come the men who are the authors of the
1307 6    |           things, whether natures of men or institutions, are but
1308 6    |                hard is the good," as men say. ~Still, he said, let
1309 6    |         either convert him and other men, or do something which may
1310 6    |            noble sentiments; such as men utter when they are earnestly
1311 6    |             envy, contending against men; his eye is ever directed
1312 6    |             State and the manners of men, from which, as from a tablet,
1313 6    |           which, when existing among men, Homer calls the form and
1314 6    |           they have made the ways of men, as far as possible, agreeable
1315 6    |         great as this ought the best men in our State, to whom everything
1316 6    |     intelligence are only like blind men who feel their way along
1317 7    |              And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying
1318 7    |              next the reflections of men and other objects in the
1319 7    |          would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up
1320 7    |           them that in other States, men of their class are not obliged
1321 7    |            of other States, in which men fight with one another about
1322 7    |          answered; for they are just men, and the commands which
1323 7    |              Surely they will be the men who are wisest about affairs
1324 7    |              politics? ~They are the men, and I will choose them,
1325 7    |              remember that our young men are to be warrior athletes? ~
1326 7    |              are to be the principal men of our State to go and learn
1327 7    |           say that these are not the men, and that I am referring
1328 7    |              But do you imagine that men who are unable to give and
1329 7    |           the desires or opinions of men, or are cultivated with
1330 7    |               but, if our pupils are men of another stamp, the reverse
1331 7    |  undeservedly trampled under foot of men I could not help feeling
1332 7    |        former selection we chose old men, we must not do so in this.
1333 7    |             other office which young men are qualified to hold: in
1334 7    |          have been saying applies to men only and not to women as
1335 7    |         share in all things like the men. ~Well, I said, and you
1336 8    |          vary as the dispositions of men vary, and that there must
1337 8    |          said, the States are as the men are; they grow out of human
1338 8    |      gymnastics; and hence the young men of your State will be less
1339 8    |               Yes. ~Yes, I said; and men of this stamp will be covetous
1340 8    |            and all the characters of men, omitting none of them,
1341 8    |        proportion as riches and rich men are honored in the State,
1342 8    |         loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and
1343 8    |              poor, the other of rich men; and they are living on
1344 8    |         anything but riches and rich men, or to be ambitious of anything
1345 8    |              himself; he will be two men, and not one; but, in general,
1346 8    |       carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often
1347 8    |               On the other hand, the men of business, stooping as
1348 8    |      adherents, especially the young men of the governing class,
1349 8    |          drawing the conclusion that men like him are only rich because
1350 8    |          charming, so there are many men to whom this State, which
1351 8    |          their abode in the minds of men who are dear to the gods,
1352 8    |            there, in the face of all men; and if any help be sent
1353 8    |            cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly
1354 8    |             in that direction, or of men of business, once more in
1355 8    |            who hug their chains, and men of naught; she would have
1356 8    |             like subjects: these are men after her own heart, whom
1357 8    |             in word or deed; and old men condescend to the young
1358 8    |              tragic poets being wise men will forgive us and any
1359 9    |              all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast
1360 9    |          able to rule, not only over men, but also over the gods? ~
1361 9    |        desires. ~Exactly. ~When such men are only private individuals
1362 9    |             we not rightly call such men treacherous? ~No question. ~
1363 9    |            may not be the opinion of men in general? ~Yes, he said,
1364 9    |                And in estimating the men, too, may I not fairly make
1365 9    |             when compared with other men? ~That again, he said, is
1366 9    |            the most miserable of all men. ~There, I said, I think
1367 9    |        greedy, and yet alone, of all men in the city, he is never
1368 9    |             and combating with other men. ~Yes, he said, the similitude
1369 9    |            the real tyrant, whatever men may think, is the real slave,
1370 9    |           seen or unseen by gods and men"? ~Let the words be added. ~
1371 9    |            the souls of one class of men, another in others, as may
1372 9    |         examine the three classes of men, and ask of them in turn
1373 9    |             hands of fierce and evil men, would be the gainer, however
1374 9    |             at large? ~Clearly. ~And men are blamed for pride and
1375 10   |           discern what pursuits make men better or worse in private
1376 10   |        Scythian, and other ingenious men have conceived, which is
1377 10   |             such an effect in making men love them that their companions
1378 10   |              imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary,
1379 10   |          that from the evil of other men something of evil is communicated
1380 10   |           gods and praises of famous men are the only poetry which
1381 10   |              prove that the souls of men become more unjust in consequence
1382 10   |            to the soul from gods and men, both in life and after
1383 10   |          escape the eyes of gods and men, still this admission ought
1384 10   |              she is held by gods and men and which we acknowledge
1385 10   |              what do they receive of men? Look at things as they
1386 10   |          carries off the prize which men have to bestow. ~True. ~
1387 10   |            upon the just by gods and men in this present life, in
1388 10   |             to ascend; and then wild men of fiery aspect, who were
1389 10   |           there were lives of famous men, some who were famous for
1390 10   |             musicians, wanting to be men. The soul which obtained
1391 10   |            have it. And not only did men pass into animals, but I


The Second Alcibiades
     Part
1392 Text |           course.~SOCRATES: And some men seem to you to be discreet,
1393 Text |         SOCRATES: And in like manner men differ in regard to want
1394 Text |        Wherefore also I suspect that men are entirely wrong when
1395 Text |            less fortunate than other men; or if they have sometimes
1396 Text |    processions and sacrifices, which men may celebrate year after
1397 Text |              both by the Gods and by men of sense; and they are the
1398 Text |             and act towards Gods and men. But I should like to hear
1399 Text |           use the mildest term which men apply to folly— will most
1400 Text |         towards the Gods and towards men.~ALCIBIADES: And how long


The Seventh Letter
     Part
1401 Text |             experience as many other men. I fancied that if, early
1402 Text |            took place, and fifty-one men came to the front as rulers
1403 Text |         manage the State as to bring men out of a bad way of life
1404 Text |              these incidents and the men engaged in public affairs,
1405 Text |              that it is by this that men are enabled to see what
1406 Text |             of evils for the sons of men, till either those who are
1407 Text |            any laws whatsoever, when men think it right to squander
1408 Text |            as to the ideals at which men should aim, advising him
1409 Text |         opinion, so far as the young men were concerned, and the
1410 Text |            of apprehension-for young men are quick in forming desires,
1411 Text |           enabling you to lead young men into the path of goodness
1412 Text |         advise such people. But when men are travelling altogether
1413 Text |             penalty of death-if such men should order their counsellors
1414 Text |           introduced without driving men into exile or putting them
1415 Text |            own supporters, either by men who had no ties of blood
1416 Text |              trust in brothers or in men whom he had brought up,
1417 Text |        because they had in each them men whom they could trust. But
1418 Text |              as though they had been men of any note.~All this has
1419 Text |            sent forth a light to all men, Greeks and barbarians,
1420 Text |              under the rule of godly men and having received a right
1421 Text |      anything positively about other men, that, if he had got the
1422 Text |         Athens; for there, also, are men who excel all mankind in
1423 Text |       conquered party, should compel men to obey these by two restraining
1424 Text |        choice select from all Hellas men whom they have ascertained
1425 Text |           must in the first place be men of mature years, who have
1426 Text |           some chance, mightier than men, brought it to nothing.
1427 Text |           were not uncommon in young men, still it seemed to me safer
1428 Text |          Greeks-and, with him, other men of repute in Sicily. These
1429 Text |      Dionysios. One should show such men what philosophy is in all
1430 Text |            think it a good thing for men that there should be a disquisition,
1431 Text |             Lynceus could endow such men with the power of sight.~
1432 Text |         foreign to it. Therefore, if men are not by nature kinship
1433 Text |       scrutiny and kindly testing by men who proceed by question
1434 Text |           and misunderstanding among men by committing them to writing.
1435 Text |           then surely, not gods, but men “have themselves bereft
1436 Text |          tears, while I said: “These men are afraid that you may
1437 Text |            if he goes on to kill the men of substance, whom he speaks
1438 Text |             to the character of such men, but it would perhaps not
1439 Text |       assailants were thoroughly bad men, but he was unaware how


The Sophist
     Part
1440 Intro|        against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education.
1441 Intro|           allow some sect or body of men the possession of an honourable
1442 Intro|             were good and honourable men. The notion that they were
1443 Intro|            that they are respectable men.~The Sophist, in the dialogue
1444 Intro|             to damage the ‘hooker of men’ as much as possible; each
1445 Intro|          education is to interrogate men after the manner of Socrates,
1446 Intro|           general notions will guide men into all truth.~Plato does
1447 Intro|             In the infancy of logic, men sought only to obtain a
1448 Intro|            soul hates—~os chi eteron men keuthe eni phresin, allo
1449 Intro|              the good and evil among men, and detect the foolishness
1450 Intro|               too, can deceive young men, who are still at a distance
1451 Intro|              our way rejoicing. Most men (like Aristotle) have been
1452 Intro|             likely to make upon him. Men are annoyed at what puzzles
1453 Intro|        either. But the characters of men are one-sided and accept
1454 Intro|              opposite sides or views—men are determined by their
1455 Intro|           only above the opinions of men but above their modes of
1456 Intro|           above the ordinary ways of men; they understand one another
1457 Intro|              criterion: the ideas of men have a succession in time
1458 Intro|             impersonal. The minds of men are to be regarded as one
1459 Intro|              how all the thoughts of men that ever were, which are
1460 Intro|         mixed much in the affairs of men, for, as his biographer
1461 Intro|            custom. He will not allow men to defend themselves by
1462 Text |              the good and evil among men. And may not your companion
1463 Text |     unrecognized by the ignorance of men, and they ‘hover about cities,’
1464 Text |            and is a hunt after young men of wealth and rank—such
1465 Text |          another in the souls of bad men?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
1466 Text |            that the Sophists are the men. I say this provisionally,
1467 Text |              profess that he teaches men to dispute? To begin at
1468 Text |               which are invisible to men in general?~THEAETETUS:
1469 Text |             they not profess to make men able to dispute about law
1470 Text |              the Sophists make young men believe in their supreme
1471 Text |          enchant the hearts of young men by words poured through
1472 Text |             speaker is the wisest of men in all things?~THEAETETUS:
1473 Text |        besides, antiquity and famous men should have reverence, and
1474 Text |             have often met with such men, and terrible fellows they
1475 Text |        having; for that which better men acknowledge has more weight
1476 Text |             acknowledged by inferior men. Moreover we are no respecters
1477 Text |       matters—they are often elderly men, whose meagre sense is thrown
1478 Text |           ridiculous of all will the men themselves be who want to


The Statesman
     Part
1479 Intro|          would in like manner oppose men and all other animals to
1480 Intro|          birds in juxtaposition with men, and the king side by side
1481 Intro|             originally to implant in men’s minds a sense of truth
1482 Intro|             true herdsman or king of men. But before we can rightly
1483 Intro|           there is one management of men, and another of beasts.’
1484 Intro|          your division, you spoke of men and other animals as two
1485 Intro|           the two remaining species. Men and birds are both bipeds,
1486 Intro|         Cronos, and of the earthborn men? The origin of these and
1487 Intro|               is most destructive to men and animals. At the beginning
1488 Intro|              and fineness; the young men grew softer and smaller,
1489 Intro|              origin of the earthborn men.~‘And is this cycle, of
1490 Intro|               They were shepherds of men and animals, each of them
1491 Intro|       sufficiency of all things, and men were born out of the earth,
1492 Intro|             time, when the earthborn men had all passed away, the
1493 Intro|              infants grew into young men, and the young men became
1494 Intro|             young men, and the young men became greyheaded; no longer
1495 Intro| self-nourished. At first the case of men was very helpless and pitiable;
1496 Intro|          standard. Many accomplished men say that the art of measurement
1497 Intro|            better calculated to make men dialecticians.~And now let
1498 Intro|             view in various forms of men and animals and other monsters
1499 Intro|             seen, no great number of men, whether poor or rich, can
1500 Intro|             true government is, when men do nothing contrary to their