(...) The Statesman
     Part
1501 Intro|            government exist, because men despair of the true king
1502 Intro|              mind, the characters of men. The two classes both have
1503 Intro|          east, and of the earth-born men; but he has never heard
1504 Intro|            in the Timaeus, the first men gave of the names of the
1505 Intro|         unnoticed:—(1) the primitive men are supposed to be created
1506 Intro|             innocence, or that which men live at present, is the
1507 Intro|             In all ages of the world men have dreamed of a state
1508 Intro|             comparative happiness of men in this and in a former
1509 Intro|           like the physician, may do men good against their will (
1510 Intro|        infancy of political science, men naturally ask whether the
1511 Intro|            Admitting that a few wise men are likely to be better
1512 Intro|            about the duty of leaving men to themselves, which is
1513 Intro|             which the law makes with men, that they shall be protected
1514 Intro|           honesty, but that it makes men act in the same way, and
1515 Intro|             commerce begins to grow, men make themselves customs
1516 Intro|     politicians, in various forms of men and animals, appearing,
1517 Text |         think so.~STRANGER: And when men have anything to do in common,
1518 Text |              to be one management of men and another of beasts.~STRANGER:
1519 Text |        STRANGER: O Socrates, best of men, you are imposing upon me
1520 Text |             i.e. that of bipeds into men and birds. Others however
1521 Text |           Did you ever hear that the men of former times were earth-born,
1522 Text |          women and children; for all men rose again from the earth,
1523 Text |           intercourse, not only with men, but with the brute creation,
1524 Text |      thousand times happier than the men of our own day. Or, again,
1525 Text |          causes of the change, about men there is not much, and that
1526 Text |           was saying, had now failed men, and they had to order their
1527 Text |            that there was no care of men in the case of the politician,
1528 Text |             society and to rule over men in general.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
1529 Text |      difference between good and bad men?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Plainly.~
1530 Text |          There are many accomplished men, Socrates, who say, believing
1531 Text |       commerce.~STRANGER: But surely men whom we see acting as hirelings
1532 Text |          interpreters of the gods to men.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
1533 Text |             give the gods gifts from men in the form of sacrifices
1534 Text |            the absence of law, which men now-a-days apply to them;
1535 Text |              multitude rule over the men of property with their consent
1536 Text |              in a city of a thousand men, there would be a hundred,
1537 Text |             best. The differences of men and actions, and the endless
1538 Text |            in other cities, at which men compete in running, wrestling,
1539 Text |             unjust, to the tribes of men who flock together in their
1540 Text |          individual or any number of men, having fixed laws, in acting
1541 Text |              that no great number of men are able to acquire a knowledge
1542 Text |             and democracies,—because men are offended at the one
1543 Text |             States what God is among men.~YOUNG SOCRATES: You are
1544 Text |             royal art, and persuades men to do justice, and assists
1545 Text |           but decide the dealings of men with one another to be just
1546 Text |           into deciding the suits of men with one another contrary
1547 Text |          enquiry, we shall find that men who have these different
1548 Text |          manner of behaving with all men at home, and they are equally
1549 Text |             and bring up their young men to be like themselves; they
1550 Text |          combination of good and bad men, if this can be avoided;
1551 Text |             not permit them to train men in what will produce characters


The Symposium
     Part
1552 Intro|          been true loves not only of men but of women also. Such
1553 Intro|         women and boys as well as of men. Now the actions of lovers
1554 Intro|       astronomy, in the relations of men towards gods and parents
1555 Intro|           the peacemaker of gods and men, and works by a knowledge
1556 Intro|         sexes were originally three, men, women, and the union of
1557 Intro|          life. Now the characters of men differ accordingly as they
1558 Intro|          Wherefore let us exhort all men to piety, that we may obtain
1559 Intro|             walking on the skulls of men, but in their hearts and
1560 Intro|             or suffer wrong; for all men serve and obey him of their
1561 Intro|             best in others; he makes men to be of one mind at a banquet,
1562 Intro|         helper, defender, saviour of men, in whose footsteps let
1563 Intro|              the gods the prayers of men, and to men the commands
1564 Intro|           the prayers of men, and to men the commands of the gods.~
1565 Intro|              about love? Because all men and women at a certain age
1566 Intro|              this extend not only to men but also to animals? Because
1567 Intro|         immortality; and this is why men love the immortality of
1568 Intro|           the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection
1569 Intro|            who ravishes the souls of men; the convincer of hearts
1570 Intro|             an equality with that of men; and he makes the singular
1571 Intro|             affections or actions of men, he regards as varying according
1572 Intro|        mythology and the opinions of men. From Phaedrus he takes
1573 Intro|           art could satisfy. To most men reason and passion appear
1574 Intro|               by the beauty of young men and boys, which was alone
1575 Intro|       against several of the leading men of Hellas, e.g. Cimon, Alcibiades,
1576 Intro|           which gained the hearts of men,—strangely fascinated by
1577 Text |          especially that of you rich men and traders, such conversation
1578 Text |            To the feasts of inferior men the good unbidden go;’~instead
1579 Text |     Agamemnon as the most valiant of men, he makes Menelaus, who
1580 Text |             wonderful among gods and men, but especially wonderful
1581 Text |             ought to be the guide of men who would nobly live—that
1582 Text |            the lover.~Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—
1583 Text |          alone; and women as well as men. Of this, Alcestis, the
1584 Text |              the gods, as well as to men, that among the many who
1585 Text |           such as the meaner sort of men feel, and is apt to be of
1586 Text |          grow. And in choosing young men to be their companions,
1587 Text |             I suppose, that they are men of few words in those parts,
1588 Text |             and forswear himself (so men say), and the gods will
1589 Text |        entire liberty which gods and men have allowed the lover,
1590 Text |          saying that to indulge good men is honourable, and bad men
1591 Text |           men is honourable, and bad men dishonourable:—so too in
1592 Text |           and harmony, they bring to men, animals, and plants health
1593 Text |           communion between gods and men—these, I say, are concerned
1594 Text |           the peacemaker of gods and men, working by a knowledge
1595 Text |       justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power,
1596 Text |             he is the best friend of men, the helper and the healer
1597 Text |             He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards
1598 Text |         sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on
1599 Text |           and improve their manners; men shall continue to exist,
1600 Text |        single leg.’ He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple
1601 Text |         being the sections of entire men or women,—and clung to that.
1602 Text |          looking for his other half. Men who are a section of that
1603 Text |      adulterous women who lust after men: the women who are a section
1604 Text |            the woman do not care for men, but have female attachments;
1605 Text |        original man, they hang about men and embrace them, and they
1606 Text |          Wherefore let us exhort all men to piety, that we may avoid
1607 Text |            application —they include men and women everywhere; and
1608 Text |           ground but on the heads of men:’~herein is an excellent
1609 Text |           nor yet upon the skulls of men, which are not so very soft,
1610 Text |           and souls of both gods and men, which are of all things
1611 Text |             he act by force. For all men in all things serve him
1612 Text |         empire of Zeus over gods and men, are all due to Love, who
1613 Text |               This is he who empties men of disaffection and fills
1614 Text |            helper; glory of gods and men, leader best and brightest:
1615 Text |         charms the souls of gods and men. Such is the speech, Phaedrus,
1616 Text |           replied, ‘between gods and men, conveying and taking across
1617 Text |            prayers and sacrifices of men, and to men the commands
1618 Text |            sacrifices of men, and to men the commands and replies
1619 Text |            what is the use of him to men?’ ‘That, Socrates,’ she
1620 Text |            common to all? and do all men always desire their own
1621 Text |         their own good, or only some men?—what say you?’ ‘All men,’
1622 Text |             men?—what say you?’ ‘All men,’ I replied; ‘the desire
1623 Text |           she rejoined, ‘are not all men, Socrates, said to love,
1624 Text |             whereas you say that all men are always loving the same
1625 Text |           For there is nothing which men love but the good. Is there
1626 Text |            the simple truth is, that men love the good.’ ‘Yes,’ I
1627 Text |              I mean to say, that all men are bringing to the birth
1628 Text |          possession of the good, all men will necessarily desire
1629 Text |           then at the love which all men have of their offspring;
1630 Text |              only of the ambition of men, and you will wonder at
1631 Text |              I am persuaded that all men do all things, and the better
1632 Text |              for there certainly are men who are more creative in
1633 Text |           this fairest and wisest of men, as I may be allowed to
1634 Text |           speech with those of sober men is hardly fair; and I should
1635 Text |           used to charm the souls of men by the power of his breath,
1636 Text |              be ashamed of what wise men would say if I were to refuse
1637 Text |              be said of other famous men, but of this strange being
1638 Text |         however remote, either among men who now are or who ever


Theaetetus
     Part
1639 Intro|            in him than ‘many bearded men’; he is quite inspired by
1640 Intro|            have a mission to convict men of self-conceit; in the
1641 Intro|            man-midwife, who delivers men of their thoughts, and under
1642 Intro|          insight into the natures of men, and can divine their future;
1643 Intro|        spirit in which the wisest of men delights to speak of himself.~
1644 Intro|          which the ideas swarming in men’s minds could be compared;
1645 Intro|            that he is in labour. For men as well as women have pangs
1646 Intro|        children, but the thoughts of men. Like the midwives, who
1647 Intro|      offering you specimens of other men’s wisdom, because I have
1648 Intro|              argument which disgusts men with philosophy as they
1649 Intro|              wiser than many bearded men, but not wiser than you,
1650 Intro|             And the world is full of men who are asking to be taught
1651 Intro|            to be ruled, and of other men who are willing to rule
1652 Intro|               All which implies that men do judge of one another’
1653 Intro|             in the understandings of men. Admitting, with Protagoras,
1654 Intro|             God is righteous; and of men, he is most like him who
1655 Intro|       difference in the judgments of men about the future? Would
1656 Intro|           against ancient and famous men.~Let us first approach the
1657 Intro|      perception is given at birth to men and animals. But the essence
1658 Intro|             a century before had led men to form conceptions of the
1659 Intro|            abstract, any man or some men, ‘quod semper quod ubique’
1660 Intro|     difficulty respecting Not-being. Men had only recently arrived
1661 Intro|           flux.’ But the thoughts of men deepened, and soon they
1662 Intro|            was the knowledge, not of men, but of gods, perfect and
1663 Intro|             eighteenth century, when men sought to explain the human
1664 Intro|             we have been speaking of men, rather in the points in
1665 Intro|            and the teaching of other men as well as by his own observation.
1666 Intro|             the perceptions of other men are, speaking generally,
1667 Intro|           nineteenth centuries, when men walk in the daylight of
1668 Intro|    communicating them to others. For men are taught, not by those
1669 Intro|  accommodation of it to the minds of men; many who have been metaphysicians
1670 Intro|              PSYCHOLOGY.~O gar arche men o me oide, teleute de kai
1671 Intro|        results, and learn from other men that so far as we can describe
1672 Intro|            dream in which scientific men are always tempted to indulge.
1673 Intro|          conscience, which speaks to men, not only of right and wrong
1674 Intro|         little changes the nature of men, the sudden change of the
1675 Intro|           them in the composition of men and animals. It is with
1676 Text |          also the most courageous of men; there is a union of qualities
1677 Text |            SOCRATES: Wisdom; are not men wise in that which they
1678 Text |             would task the powers of men perfect in every way?~THEAETETUS:
1679 Text |       strangest of mortals and drive men to their wits’ end. Did
1680 Text |            differs, in that I attend men and not women; and look
1681 Text |               and that you and I are men?~THEAETETUS: Yes, he says
1682 Text |           the level of the wisest of men, or indeed of the gods?—
1683 Text |         apply to the gods as well as men?~THEAETETUS: Certainly I
1684 Text |           conceive that one of these men can be or ought to be made
1685 Text |              that a good mind causes men to have good thoughts; and
1686 Text |         Socrates, I do not call wise men tadpoles: far from it; I
1687 Text |            enquiry than a great many men who have long beards?~SOCRATES:
1688 Text |             diagrams, or whether all men are equally measures and
1689 Text |             himself wiser than other men in some things, and their
1690 Text |             Is not the world full of men in their several employments,
1691 Text |             say that the opinions of men are always true, or sometimes
1692 Text |             that the opinions of all men are true.~THEODORUS: Certainly.~
1693 Text |             in the understandings of men.~THEODORUS: In that opinion
1694 Text |             is lived by immortals or men blessed of heaven.~THEODORUS:
1695 Text |          peace and fewer evils among men.~SOCRATES: Evils, Theodorus,
1696 Text |           his roguery is clever; for men glory in their shame—they
1697 Text |            of the earth, but such as men should be who mean to dwell
1698 Text |              was the superior of all men in this respect.~SOCRATES:
1699 Text |            good sir, they have none; men of their sort are not one
1700 Text |            knows nothing. From these men, then, as I was going to
1701 Text |           that of ancient and famous men. O Theodorus, do you think
1702 Text |           body are given at birth to men and animals by nature, but
1703 Text |         different sizes in different men; harder, moister, and having
1704 Text |        places on the block. And such men are called wise. Do you
1705 Text |             and think amiss—and such men are said to be deceived
1706 Text |            do not mean five or seven men or horses, but five or seven
1707 Text |          lawyers; for these persuade men by their art and make them
1708 Text |            in former times many wise men have grown old and have
1709 Text |         humbler and gentler to other men, and will be too modest
1710 Text |        things which great and famous men know or have known in this
1711 Text |           delivered women, I deliver men; but they must be young


Timaeus
     Part
1712 Intro|            types in nature, forms of men, animals, birds, fishes.
1713 Intro|           was not only the wisest of men but also the best of poets.
1714 Intro|              and produced the wisest men; in no other was she herself,
1715 Intro|              the gods, excelling all men in virtue, and many famous
1716 Intro|             then I shall receive the men whom he has created, and
1717 Intro|             and begin.’~TIMAEUS: All men who have any right feeling,
1718 Intro|             are the judges, are only men; to probability we may attain
1719 Intro|       complexity are not observed by men in general; there is moreover
1720 Intro|              earth, which we suppose men to know, though no one has
1721 Intro|             the gods and by very few men. And we must acknowledge
1722 Intro|            God only knows, and he of men whom God loves. Next, we
1723 Intro|      apartments are divided from the men’s, the cavity of the thorax
1724 Intro|            will and in order to make men as good as they could, gave
1725 Intro|           which is never active when men are awake or in health;
1726 Intro|              for food, in order that men might not perish by insatiable
1727 Intro|       greatest diseases, and deprive men of their senses. When the
1728 Intro|    forgetfulness and stupidity. When men are in this evil plight
1729 Intro|        should only be resorted to by men of sense in extreme cases;
1730 Intro|              degenerate and cowardly men. And when they degenerated,
1731 Intro|   degenerated, the gods implanted in men the desire of union with
1732 Intro|            of innocent, light-minded men, who thought to pursue the
1733 Intro|            race of wild animals were men who had no philosophy, and
1734 Intro|           and ignorant and impure of men, whom God placed in the
1735 Intro|             Greek history. They made men think of the world as a
1736 Intro|             strength in the minds of men the notion of ‘one God,
1737 Intro|              greatest among Gods and men, who was all sight, all
1738 Intro|              medicine and astronomy, men came to the observation
1739 Intro|              same time, the minds of men parted into the two great
1740 Intro|           indeed of thinking at all. Men were led to conceive it,
1741 Intro|            the most trivial, assured men of their truth; they were
1742 Intro|              and knowledge. At first men personify nature, then they
1743 Intro|            only to God and to him of men whom God loves.’ How often
1744 Intro|             same. The generations of men, like the leaves of the
1745 Intro|          habitations of the souls of men, from which they come and
1746 Intro|            to move in order to teach men the periods of time. Although
1747 Intro|             mathematics would enable men to correct.~We have now
1748 Intro|             attempt to vindicate for men a freedom out of space and
1749 Intro|            of the will. The lusts of men are caused by their bodily
1750 Intro|            Plato’s remark, that ‘the men of old time must surely
1751 Intro|        suppose them. The thoughts of men widened to receive experience;
1752 Intro|              to the physical. Before men can observe the world, they
1753 Intro|            And sometimes, like other men, he is more impressed by
1754 Intro|          imply that all the evils of men are really self-inflicted.
1755 Intro|          might find a place wherever men chose to look for it; in
1756 Intro|      probably neither of those great men were at all imposed upon
1757 Intro|           the extravagances of which men are capable. But this is
1758 Intro|          entering into the hearts of men? And this hope was nursed
1759 Intro|         accept the traditions of the men of old time who affirm themselves
1760 Intro|            some day be framed out of men, and they further knew that
1761 Intro|          wherefore they fashioned in men at their first creation
1762 Intro|           him, to tell of him to all men would be impossible.’ ‘Let
1763 Intro|             on the testimony of wise men: God desired that all things
1764 Intro|             on the testimony of wise men,’ is very characteristic
1765 Text |          more than would suffice for men of simple life; and they
1766 Text |            harmony with those of the men, and that common pursuits
1767 Text |             suitable war, you of all men living could best exhibit
1768 Text |           was not only the wisest of men, but also the noblest of
1769 Text |          fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that
1770 Text |          would produce the wisest of men. Wherefore the goddess,
1771 Text |           the most likely to produce men likest herself. And there
1772 Text |     continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected
1773 Text |          misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the
1774 Text |            next, I am to receive the men whom he has created, and
1775 Text |          upon the Gods.~TIMAEUS: All men, Socrates, who have any
1776 Text |           him, to tell of him to all men would be impossible. And
1777 Text |              judges, are only mortal men, and we ought to accept
1778 Text |             on the testimony of wise men: God desired that all things
1779 Text |         accept the traditions of the men of old time who affirm themselves
1780 Text |             They are thought by most men not to be the second, but
1781 Text |        whatever they mean, as though men knew their natures, and
1782 Text |             the gods and of very few men. Wherefore also we must
1783 Text |            God only knows, and he of men who is the friend of God.
1784 Text |            parts, as the women’s and men’s apartments are divided
1785 Text |            some day be framed out of men, and they further knew that
1786 Text |          wherefore they fashioned in men at their first creation
1787 Text |       remarks may be offered. Of the men who came into the world,
1788 Text |       procreation. Wherefore also in men the organ of generation
1789 Text |             of innocent light-minded men, who, although their minds