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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| maintained, that ‘to suffer is better than to do evil;’ and the
2 Intro| making the worse appear the better cause, and teaching all
3 Intro| the gods, because it was better for him to depart; and therefore
4 Text | made the worse appear the better cause. The disseminators
5 Text | makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the
6 Text | beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,— for he
7 Text | esteemed were really wiser and better. I will tell you the tale
8 Text | who would not have talked better about their poetry than
9 Text | to the oracle that I was better off as I was.~This inquisition
10 Text | making the worse appear the better cause; for they do not like
11 Text | by Zeus I will: Which is better, to live among bad citizens,
12 Text | admonished me; for if I had been better advised, I should have left
13 Text | injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is
14 Text | not permitted to injure a better than himself. I do not deny
15 Text | honour and command, are no better than women. And I say that
16 Text | in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than
17 Text | had arrived when it was better for me to die and be released
18 Text | and you to live. Which is better God only knows.~THE END~ >
Charmides
Part
19 PreS | cadence, to overpower his better judgment, or think much
20 Intro| discovered, and had therefore better rest in the knowledge that
21 Text | home with you and shall be better able to explain the nature
22 Text | would be likely to produce a better or nobler scion than the
23 Text | nothing which I should like better, he said; and as far as
24 Text | think, I said, that I had better begin by asking you a question;
25 Text | quickness or sharpness are far better than quietness and slowness?~
26 Text | said.~And which, I said, is better—facility in learning, or
27 Text | slowly?~True.~And is it not better to teach another quickly
28 Text | slowly?~Yes.~And which is better, to call to mind, and to
29 Text | and activity are clearly better than slowness and quietness?~
30 Text | actions in life appear to be better than the quick and energetic
31 Text | temperate!’ would be a far better way of saluting one another.
32 Text | science, and this also will better enable him to test the knowledge
33 Text | ignorant to those who were better acquainted with them.~Were
34 Text | me; and therefore you had better consider well.~But the time
Cratylus
Part
35 Intro| should have understood Plato better, and many points which are
36 Intro| the guesses of Plato are better than all the other theories
37 Intro| and not to individuals.~A better conception of language could
38 Intro| you, having no money, had better learn from him at second-hand. ‘
39 Intro| general, some of them are better and some of them are worse
40 Intro| worse than others, and give better or worse laws, and make
41 Intro| or worse laws, and make better or worse names. Cratylus
42 Intro| cannot admit that one name is better than another; they are either
43 Intro| sentence may retain a meaning. Better to admit this, that we may
44 Intro| expressing and describing them better. The world before the flood,
45 Intro| principal form of a language is better understood. Many merely
46 Intro| degrees. But would it not be better if this term, which is so
47 Intro| said to be unproven: it had better therefore not be silently
48 Intro| intermediate links, and so the better half of the evidence of
49 Intro| sentence and paragraph are better distributed. The best modern
50 Intro| from unpleasing to us. The better known words, even if their
51 Intro| Nations, like individuals, are better understood by us when we
52 Intro| life; and when they are better understood by us, we feel
53 Text | knowledge, and therefore we had better leave the question open
54 Text | inheritance, and therefore you had better go to him, and beg and entreat
55 Text | Very good. But you had better watch me and see that I
56 Text | But I think that we had better leave these, for there will
57 Text | Attic, and you will see better that the name heros is only
58 Text | thought that you will be made better by associating with another?~
59 Text | single name could have been better adapted to express the attributes
60 Text | divine things’ (Theia noousa) better than others. Nor shall we
61 Text | To prevent that, you had better ask what is the derivation
62 Text | word ge (earth) comes out better when in the form of gaia,
63 Text | cannot be avoided—there is no better principle to which we can
64 Text | other notion may be even better still, of deriving them
65 Text | to me in return anything better which you may have.~HERMOGENES:
66 Text | names, or have you something better of your own? and if you
67 Text | you think, which if it be better than my own view I shall
68 Text | that you have found some better notion. For you have evidently
69 Text | and if you have really a better theory of the truth of names,
70 Text | mean: of painters, some are better and some worse?~CRATYLUS:
71 Text | CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: The better painters execute their works,
72 Text | works, I mean their figures, better, and the worse execute them
73 Text | and of builders also, the better sort build fairer houses,
74 Text | are some who do their work better and some worse?~CRATYLUS:
75 Text | think that some laws are better and others worse?~CRATYLUS:
76 Text | SOCRATES: Or that one name is better than another?~CRATYLUS:
77 Text | given. I think that we had better admit this, lest we be punished
78 Text | of things, is there any better way of framing representations
79 Text | Socrates, is infinitely better than representation by any
Critias
Part
80 Intro| as follows:—~No one knew better than Plato how to invent ‘
Crito
Part
81 Intro| expect that they will be better taken care of by his friends
82 Text | the easier part, not the better and manlier, which would
83 Text | can at once find other and better principles, I am certain
84 Text | persuaded against my own better judgment. And now please
85 Text | discover that we are no better than children? Or, in spite
86 Text | of consequences whether better or worse, shall we insist
87 Text | impression that they will be better cared for and educated here
Euthydemus
Part
88 Intro| intellectual world has become better assured to us, and we are
89 Intro| studied; if not, not. The better part of ancient logic appears
90 Intro| them a handsome fee; or better still they might practise
91 Text | one: and perhaps we had better take your sons as a bait;
92 Text | believe that we can impart it better and quicker than any man.~
93 Text | not use them, be any the better for the possession of them?
94 Text | would a carpenter be any the better for having all his tools
95 Text | nor wisdom? Would a man be better off, having and doing many
96 Text | piece of advice, you had better take care that they do not
97 Text | And I think that I had better once more exhibit the form
98 Text | And should we be any the better if we went about having
99 Text | that we should be none the better off, even if without trouble
100 Text | nothing that I should like better than to be self-convicted
101 Text | I reflected that I had better let him have his way, as
102 Text | So I said: You are a far better dialectician than myself,
103 Text | said Ctesippus, and you had better take care, for it is monstrous
104 Text | that you would have known better...Here Euthydemus held his
105 Text | Ctesippus, and the more the better.~And to have money everywhere
106 Text | and the other evil, are better than the one and worse than
107 Text | evil is the participant better than either. Now, if philosophy
108 Text | the other evil, they are better than the one and worse than
Euthyphro
Part
109 Intro| thinks that he cannot do better than learn of Euthyphro (
110 Intro| in some way they are made better. But how do pious or holy
111 Intro| holy acts make the gods any better? Euthyphro explains that
112 Intro| that any other religion is better than their own; or that
113 Text | I think that I cannot do better than be your disciple. Then
114 Text | from me to you, I cannot do better than repeat this challenge
115 Text | approve of them, I cannot do better than assent to your superior
116 Text | Euthyphro, do tell me, for my better instruction and information,
117 Text | SOCRATES: We shall know better, my good friend, in a little
118 Text | you make any of the gods better?~EUTHYPHRO: No, no; that
119 Text | now I am about to lead a better life.~THE END~ >
The First Alcibiades
Part
120 Intro| what is their aim? ‘The better preservation of the city.’
121 Intro| city.’ But when is a city better? ‘When there is unanimity,
122 Intro| should be the slaves of better men than themselves. None
123 Text | hear.~SOCRATES: You had better be careful, for I may very
124 Text | are going to deliberate, better than they?—How would you
125 Text | a matter which I do know better than they.~SOCRATES: Then
126 Text | the builder will advise better than you will about that?~
127 Text | the diviner will advise better than you will?~ALCIBIADES:
128 Text | those against whom it is better to go to war?~ALCIBIADES:
129 Text | SOCRATES: And when it is better?~ALCIBIADES: Certainly.~
130 Text | for as long a time as is better?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
131 Text | master of gymnastics, be a better adviser of them?~ALCIBIADES:
132 Text | said to him—This food is better than that, at this time
133 Text | Alcibiades, by the word ‘better’? you would have no difficulty
134 Text | what is the meaning of ‘better,’ in the matter of making
135 Text | then, is justice but that better, of which I spoke, in going
136 Text | And can they teach the better who are unable to teach
137 Text | they can teach many far better things than to play at draughts.~
138 Text | And can you be persuaded better than out of your own mouth?~
139 Text | of nature I shall get the better of them.~SOCRATES: My dear
140 Text | be satisfied, if you are better than the soldiers; and you
141 Text | Let me ask you whether better natures are likely to be
142 Text | I have a guardian who is better and wiser than your guardian,
143 Text | ALCIBIADES: The aim is the better order and preservation of
144 Text | were improved and were in better case, when deafness was
145 Text | the state is improved and better managed and ordered?~ALCIBIADES:
146 Text | but which makes ourselves better?~ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES:
147 Text | known what art makes a shoe better, if we did not know a shoe?~
148 Text | know what art makes a ring better, if we did not know a ring?~
149 Text | know what art makes a man better, if we do not know what
150 Text | commanded by a superior is better for men as well as for children? (
151 Text | SOCRATES: And that which is better is also nobler?~ALCIBIADES:
152 Text | is more becoming, because better?~ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES:
Gorgias
Part
153 Intro| man has done evil he had better be punished than unpunished;
154 Intro| that which makes the people better, and that which only flatters
155 Intro| the abstract notions of better, superior, stronger, he
156 Intro| but he must first become a better and wiser man, for he as
157 Intro| have taught the citizens better than to put him to death?~
158 Intro| unjustly is to be pitied; it is better to suffer than to do injustice.
159 Intro| question: Is a guilty man better off when he is punished
160 Intro| of the stronger or of the better?’ ‘There is no difference.’
161 Intro| the opinions of the many better? And their opinion is that
162 Intro| that the superior is the better?’ But what do you mean by
163 Intro| what do you mean by the better? Tell me that, and please
164 Intro| the life of contentment is better than the life of indulgence.
165 Intro| the brave or may be even better.~Callicles endeavours now
166 Intro| is good for the soul, and better than the unrestrained indulgence
167 Intro| soul which has order is better than the soul which is without
168 Intro| examine him? Whom has he made better? For we have already admitted
169 Intro| Themistocles. Whom did they make better? Nay, did not Pericles make
170 Intro| statesman of a past age were no better than those of our own. They
171 Intro| not have taught the city better! He surely cannot blame
172 Intro| in Hellas, have nothing better to say, and no one will
173 Intro| ever show that to do is better than to suffer evil. A man
174 Intro| such a sentiment in the better part of human nature.~The
175 Intro| and that ‘they were the better for being punished.’ Still
176 Intro| the New Testament—~‘It is better to suffer for well doing
177 Intro| us.~Second Thesis:—~It is better to suffer for wrong doing
178 Intro| to be unfortunate—he had better have suffered when he was
179 Intro| the struggle between the better and the worse is going on
180 Intro| almost all desire to appear better than they are, that they
181 Intro| of the nation. There is a better (as well as a worse) public
182 Intro| the well-being of states—better administration, better education,
183 Intro| states—better administration, better education, the reconciliation
184 Intro| expect their leaders to be better and wiser than themselves:
185 Intro| who have been taught no better, have done what might be
186 Intro| feeling that they ought to be better governed than they are.
187 Intro| more unscrupulous man is better esteemed than the more conscientious,
188 Intro| heaven. He expresses what the better part of us would fain say,
189 Intro| own nature, and make them better acquainted with the world
190 Intro| for the human race by a better use of the poetical and
191 Intro| many ideals of social life, better than a thousand sermons?
192 Intro| Italian writer, have the better of him. Though we are not
193 Intro| represented the relation of the better part of the world, and of
194 Intro| whether to live or die is better for them (Gor.): (13) the
195 Intro| only affirmed that nothing better can be said about a future
196 Intro| Judgment; and ‘there is some better thing remaining for the
197 Text | think that you can answer better than Gorgias?~POLUS: What
198 Text | dare say I shall soon know better; please to answer me a question:—
199 Text | rhetoricians, I cannot do better than learn the nature of
200 Text | can persuade the multitude better than any other man of anything
201 Text | discoursing all day I shall be the better pleased.~SOCRATES: I may
202 Text | under the idea that it is better to walk, and when we stand
203 Text | was saying, you have no better argument than numbers, let
204 Text | a slave, who indeed had better die than live; since when
205 Text | who are able to get the better of them, in order that they
206 Text | that they may not get the better of them; and they say, that
207 Text | that it is just for the better to have more than the worse,
208 Text | inferior by force; that the better should rule the worse, the
209 Text | And do you mean by the better the same as the superior?
210 Text | superior and stronger and better were the same; or whether
211 Text | the same; or whether the better may be also the inferior
212 Text | superior the worse, or whether better is to be defined in the
213 Text | up. Are the superior and better and stronger the same or
214 Text | they are the laws of the better; for the superior class
215 Text | the superior class are far better, as you were saying?~CALLICLES:
216 Text | that by superior I mean better: do you imagine me to say,
217 Text | not think that two men are better than one, or that your slaves
218 Text | or that your slaves are better than you because they are
219 Text | again, and tell me who the better are, if they are not the
220 Text | then, whom you mean, by the better?~CALLICLES: I mean the more
221 Text | whether you mean by the better and superior the wiser,
222 Text | natural justice—that the better and wiser should rule and
223 Text | not, being wiser, be also better than we are, and our superior
224 Text | and drinks, because he is better, or he will have the distribution
225 Text | admit that the wiser is the better? Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’~CALLICLES:
226 Text | SOCRATES: And ought not the better to have a larger share?~
227 Text | time you were defining the better and the superior to be the
228 Text | notion; the superior and the better are now declared by you
229 Text | whom you affirm to be the better and superior, and in what
230 Text | superior, and in what they are better?~CALLICLES: I have already
231 Text | SOCRATES: And are they not better pleased at the enemy’s departure?~
232 Text | good, or, perhaps, even better?—is not this a further inference
233 Text | pleasure, and know nothing of a better and worse, and there are
234 Text | former. But perhaps we had better first try to distinguish
235 Text | considering whether they are better or worse for this?~CALLICLES:
236 Text | them worse and made them better, from the day that he began
237 Text | of some desires makes us better, and of others, worse, and
238 Text | Such treatment will be better for the soul herself?~CALLICLES:
239 Text | restraint or chastisement is better for the soul than intemperance
240 Text | has an order of her own better than that which has no order?
241 Text | legs will carry him: he had better order his life so as not
242 Text | embarked, and not a whit better either in their bodies or
243 Text | reflects that such a one had better not live, for he cannot
244 Text | that you will say, ‘I am better, and better born.’ But if
245 Text | will say, ‘I am better, and better born.’ But if the better
246 Text | better born.’ But if the better is not what I say, and virtue
247 Text | of the city, whether for better or worse, then I can only
248 Text | woman, had ever been any the better for the medical skill of
249 Text | making any of the citizens better? Was there ever a man who
250 Text | must have made the citizens better instead of worse?~CALLICLES:
251 Text | supposed to have been made better by Pericles, or, on the
252 Text | horses, and themselves become better charioteers, are thrown
253 Text | have turned out to be no better than our present ones; and
254 Text | who are living now, and better able to gratify the wishes
255 Text | you may understand me the better. The purveyor of the articles
256 Text | saying that they make men better, then they are the only
257 Text | punished ought either to become better and profit by it, or he
258 Text | suffers, and fear and become better. Those who are improved
259 Text | could find out anything better or truer: but now you see
260 Text | good to us, for we shall be better able to judge then. In our
Ion
Part
261 Intro| prophet or pilot be the better judge? Ion is compelled
262 Intro| of his own particular art better than the rhapsode. He still
263 Intro| random from the crowd is a better interpreter of them than
264 Text | able to speak about Homer better than any man; and that neither
265 Text | SOCRATES: And can you interpret better what Homer says, or what
266 Text | you or a good prophet be a better interpreter of what these
267 Text | SOCRATES: And Homer in a better way?~ION: He is incomparably
268 Text | ION: He is incomparably better.~SOCRATES: And yet surely,
269 Text | speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, there is
270 Text | speaking, and one speaks better than the rest, will he who
271 Text | will he who recognizes the better speaker be a different person
272 Text | thinking that I do speak better and have more to say about
273 Text | or the physician be the better judge of the propriety of
274 Text | SOCRATES: Then which will be a better judge of the lines which
275 Text | the art of medicine was better able to judge of the propriety
276 Text | fisherman or of the rhapsode be better able to judge whether these
277 Text | who know Homer so much better than I do, Ion, select for
278 Text | to examine and judge of better than other men.~ION: All
279 Text | rhapsode ought to have a better memory.~ION: Why, what am
280 Text | that a rhapsode will know better than the pilot what the
281 Text | Or will the rhapsode know better than the physician what
282 Text | the rhapsode will know better than the cowherd what he
Laches
Part
283 Intro| are our teachers? But a better and more thorough way of
284 Intro| having never been taught, are better than those who have. Like
285 Text | No gymnastics could be better or harder exercise; and
286 Text | small matter;—he will make a better appearance at the right
287 Text | himself, which was a far better spectacle. He was a marine
288 Text | own manner; but you had better ask our friend Laches what
289 Text | annoyance to me; and the better he speaks the more I hate
290 Text | training, and whom have we made better?’ But the other mode of
291 Text | addition of sight makes better the eyes which possess this
292 Text | Nicias to join us? he may be better at the sport than we are.
293 Text | man? Had not many a man better never get up from a sick
294 Text | think that life is always better than death. May not death
295 Text | May not death often be the better of the two?~LACHES: Yes
296 Text | terrible to those who had better die, and to those who had
297 Text | die, and to those who had better live?~LACHES: Certainly
298 Text | whom to die or to live is better? And yet Nicias, would you
299 Text | soothsayer, because he knows better what is happening or is
Laws
Book
300 1 | good, indeed; and still better when we see them; let us
301 1 | argument, and will now be better able to understand what
302 1 | and the state in which the better citizens win a victory over
303 1 | may be truly said to be better than itself, and may be
304 1 | case.~Athenian. Whether the better is ever really conquered
305 1 | Now, which would be the better judge—one who destroyed
306 1 | say that there are still better men whose virtue is displayed
307 1 | And such an one is far better, as we affirm, than the
308 1 | united with courage, are better than courage only; for a
309 1 | prospect of reward to get the better of them? Where is an ordinance
310 1 | believe that I can tell better than either of you what
311 1 | friendly spirit will be all the better for it.~Athenian. Very good;
312 1 | drinks wine he begins to be better pleased with himself, and
313 1 | pleasure madden us? What is better adapted than the festive
314 2 | accordingly: which now is the better trained in dancing and music—
315 2 | sculptures are not a whit better or worse than the work of
316 2 | our ways are far and away better than any which at present
317 2 | characters put before them better than their own, and so receiving
318 2 | of the inferior or of the better soul?~Cleinias. Surely,
319 2 | Cleinias. Surely, that of the better soul.~Athenian. Then the
320 2 | or one which will have a better effect in making them do
321 2 | perhaps you will understand me better if I put the matter in another
322 2 | sing, may be expected to be better trained. For they need to
323 2 | improved? they would part better friends than they were,
324 3 | Crete. And we are all the better for the digression, because
325 3 | as it seemed, and a far better arrangement than the expedition
326 3 | thought, in the Heraclidae better leaders than the Pelopidae;
327 3 | course, then the moderate or better was more than the immoderate
328 3 | that time was to get the better of the established laws,
329 3 | equals, the soldiers were on better terms with their generals,
330 3 | regard the opinion of the better by reason of an over–daring
331 3 | being foreign if they are better. Grant me then this favour,
332 4 | Stranger; there could not be better.~Athenian. Alas! what a
333 4 | directly repel their enemies. Better for them to have lost many
334 4 | by land made the Hellenes better; whereas the sea–fights
335 4 | both together—made them no better, if I may say so without
336 4 | neither is nor ever will be a better or speedier way of establishing
337 4 | in the hope that I may be better able to answer your question:
338 4 | a cure. Now which is the better way of proceeding in a physician
339 4 | in a trainer? Is he the better who accomplishes his ends
340 4 | that the double way is far better.~Athenian. Should you like
341 4 | play, make a second and better beginning, if you please,
342 5 | there are two parts: the better and superior, which rules,
343 5 | without making her in any way better, seems to honour her, but
344 5 | our glory is to follow the better and improve the inferior,
345 5 | that he ought to get the better by defaming others, is less
346 5 | and condescend to follow a better man than himself, not allowing
347 5 | evils he will change for the better; and as to the goods which
348 5 | escaped by us, and yet we had better say how, if we had not escaped,
349 5 | state which will be truer or better or more exalted in virtue.
350 5 | places, and that some beget better men and others worse; and
351 6 | thought by somebody to be better than one who is, let him
352 6 | and make oath that he is better, and propose him; and whichever
353 6 | is another equality, of a better and higher kind, which is
354 6 | receive a kindly welcome, far better than he would at the hands
355 6 | power of making the citizen better, but embrace those which
356 6 | promote friendship and “better acquaintance,” as the phrase
357 6 | man has found his slaves better in every way than brethren
358 6 | guarded will be infinitely better for security. Until the
359 6 | which might have been far better, if they had been only regulated
360 6 | we should both of us like better, Stranger, than to hear
361 6 | women also, we shall see better when we approach and take
362 6 | in detail, and shall be better able to lay down the laws
363 7 | coming from without gets the better of the terrible and violent
364 7 | described; if you know of any better, will you communicate your
365 7 | wrestling and to enunciate better ones.~Athenian. Now we must
366 7 | Can any of us imagine a better mode of effecting this object
367 7 | made ten thousand times better by attaining to law and
368 7 | those who are trained in it better men, whereas the other makes
369 7 | to them, and men having a better understanding about them:
370 7 | hear; I cannot imagine any better pattern than this which
371 7 | education can have. He cannot do better than advise the teachers
372 7 | if they are the same or better we will give you a chorus;
373 7 | questions, which will be a fair, better and more graceful way of
374 7 | speaking now, and can be better instructed and learn to
375 7 | instructed and learn to use better language, then I quite agree
376 7 | make the souls of young men better, and the censure to that
377 8 | soul and body is no way better than the dissolution of
378 8 | up. The military sort had better be completely described
379 8 | made may possibly get the better of most of these desires;
380 8 | say to them, you should be better than the animals. But if
381 8 | are not able to get the better of the temptation, the guardians
382 8 | present, I think that we had better allow the Stranger to proceed
383 8 | third kind which may be better than either of them? The
384 8 | and they will be of a kind better suited to free men. For
385 8 | likely to superintend them better, because more revenue will
386 8 | articles of food, sometimes better and sometimes worse.~Cleinias.
387 9 | makes him who suffers either better or not so much worse as
388 9 | failed; and may he have better fortune than his predecessors!~
389 9 | childish wantonness, himself no better than a child. And if this
390 9 | nothing can be nobler and better than that the truth about
391 9 | obscuring the juster and better; and so working darkness
392 9 | their sacred rites with better fortune than his father
393 10 | existence of Gods, if not in a better manner than other men, at
394 10 | prefer the shorter to the better. It is a matter of no small
395 10 | think therefore that I had better first ask the questions
396 10 | sun, which is therefore better than the sun, whether taking
397 10 | not able to say anything better, then he must yield to us
398 10 | sort of men, knowing the better, choose the worse because
399 10 | Decidedly not well.~Athenian. No better would be the result with
400 10 | the pieces; sending the better nature to the better place,
401 10 | the better nature to the better place, and the worse to
402 10 | carried into another and better place, which is perfect
403 10 | to the worse souls, or if better to the better, and in every
404 10 | souls, or if better to the better, and in every succession
405 10 | permit them, and who are better men than they are; and the
406 11 | abstain; and this will be a better possession to me than the
407 11 | to me than the other in a better part of myself; for the
408 11 | presence of his superiors. Now better men are the superiors of
409 11 | mistaken, will have something better to say to our departing
410 11 | his second son in hope of better fortune. If the testator
411 11 | altogether, or lose the better half of greatness. Wherefore
412 12 | the legislator ought to be better informed than all the, poets
413 12 | ever will be a higher, or better, or more scientific principle
414 12 | For if the examiners are better than the magistrates, and
415 12 | to have come home neither better nor worse, let him be praised
416 12 | enthusiasm; and if he be much better, let him be praised so much
417 12 | youth, show himself to be better than him who has won the
Lysis
Part
418 Intro| exclusive form of friendship better suited to the condition
419 Intro| an arm of support. It had better not be based on pecuniary
420 Intro| them begins to drag may be better for both of them. But then
421 Text | satisfaction that we are better cooks than his son, will
Menexenus
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422 Intro| have said, and of how much better he might have written in
423 Text | favour of Heaven, we managed better, for we ended the war without
424 Text | misfortunes, and live in a better and nobler way, and be dearer
Meno
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425 Intro| definition of figure is far better.~Now that Meno has been
426 Intro| shock’ given him, and is the better for the operation. But whence
427 Intro| poetical language, to the better and truer one; or (2) the
428 Intro| remark that he is all the better for knowing his ignorance.~
429 Intro| paradoxes, it would have been better left to die out. It certainly
430 Text | MENO: I should like nothing better.~SOCRATES: Do not he and
431 Text | thinking that the other was the better; and I am sure that you
432 Text | to all, and one man is no better than another in that respect?~
433 Text | SOCRATES: And if one man is not better than another in desiring
434 Text | desiring good, he must be better in the power of attaining
435 Text | True.~SOCRATES: Is he not better off in knowing his ignorance?~
436 Text | SOCRATES: Then he was the better for the torpedo’s touch?~
437 Text | confident. But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless
438 Text | ANYTUS: Certainly; no man better.~SOCRATES: And must not
439 Text | was his own son, to be no better than his neighbours in those
440 Text | train his son Lysimachus better than any other Athenian
441 Text | the result? Is he a bit better than any other mortal? He
Parmenides
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442 Intro| necessity of our moral nature, better known and understood by
443 Intro| imperfection. They come to us with ‘better opinion, better confirmation,’
444 Intro| us with ‘better opinion, better confirmation,’ not merely
445 Text | and that will be still better training for you.~What do
446 Text | then I shall apprehend you better.~That, Socrates, is a serious
Phaedo
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447 Intro| and surely he cannot take better care of himself than they
448 Intro| and good, and perhaps to better friends; and he professes
449 Intro| harmony, why is one soul better than another? Are they more
450 Intro| soul. I thought that I had better return to the old and safe
451 Intro| trust again?’ But there is a better and higher spirit to be
452 Intro| should we have been any better than they? The worst of
453 Intro| death, or is there some ‘better thing reserved’ also for
454 Intro| opposed to experience and had better be given up. The case of
455 Intro| and is capable of becoming better. And these germs of good
456 Intro| trees when transplanted to a better soil. The differences between
457 Intro| the fewer our words the better. At the approach of death
458 Intro| friends in heaven.’ But it is better to leave them in the hands
459 Intro| remains to us, ‘and some better thing for the good than
460 Intro| this question. And it is better to resign ourselves to the
461 Text | about to make. What can I do better in the interval between
462 Text | and why, when a man is better dead, he is not permitted
463 Text | set at liberty he can take better care of himself than the
464 Text | he may argue that he had better run away from his master,
465 Text | be ever with him who is better than himself. Now this,
466 Text | lightly leave a master who is better than himself? And I rather
467 Text | this last) to men departed, better than those whom I leave
468 Text | been said of old, some far better thing for the good than
469 Text | convincing you by my defence better than I did the Athenian
470 Text | And the worse is from the better, and the more just is from
471 Text | that the good souls have a better portion than the evil.~Cebes
472 Text | nor money; for there is no better way of spending your money.
473 Text | you will not find others better able to make the search.~
474 Text | and let us have anything better which you can suggest; and
475 Text | not some one of you who is better able than myself answer
476 Text | before we answer him, we had better also hear what Cebes has
477 Text | believes that he will fare better in the world below than
478 Text | my eagerness to know the better and the worse.~What expectations
479 Text | accordingly I have thought it better and more right to remain
480 Text | if I had not chosen the better and nobler part, instead
481 Text | And I thought that I had better have recourse to the world
482 Text | objection to make, he had better speak out, and not keep
483 Text | and I think that I had better repair to the bath first,
Phaedrus
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484 Intro| or ever could be written better. Socrates does not think
485 Intro| him, could make a speech better than that of Lysias on the
486 Intro| there are two principles—a better and a worse—reason and desire,
487 Intro| part of the speech had better be understood, for if in
488 Intro| sometimes be a great deal better than sense. There is also
489 Intro| of the philosopher has a better remembrance of them. For
490 Intro| he said that there was a better thing than either to be
491 Intro| also, that the living is better than the written word, and
492 Intro| to consist chiefly in a better arrangement of the topics;
493 Intro| the ‘non-lover’s’ love is better than the ‘lover’s.’~We may
494 Intro| desire to part company. Better, he would say, a ‘little
495 Intro| manners; and we lose the better half of him when we regard
496 Intro| make ‘the worse appear the better cause;’ and do not ‘both
497 Intro| thousand years invent nothing better than Sibylline books, Orphic
498 Intro| possibly once more get the better of the literary world. There
499 Intro| prejudice and party; we may better understand the whereabouts
500 Text | have said more or spoken better on the same subject.~SOCRATES: