(...) Phaedrus
    Part
501 Text |              willingly submit to your better judgment, for I am not worthy
502 Text |             any one could have spoken better or more exhaustively.~SOCRATES:
503 Text |           where did you hear anything better than this?~SOCRATES: I am
504 Text |           promise to make another and better oration, equal in length
505 Text |         remains you make a longer and better speech than Lysias, and
506 Text |               example, which gets the better of the higher reason and
507 Text |              than the unspoken, I had better say further that the irrational
508 Text |              well; and the longer the better, for the longer he is all
509 Text |            verse, and therefore I had better make an end; enough.~PHAEDRUS:
510 Text |              the attendant of Zeus is better able to bear the winged
511 Text |            their self-control; if the better elements of the mind which
512 Text |              even a ridiculous friend better than a cunning enemy?~PHAEDRUS:
513 Text |            PHAEDRUS: Nothing could be better; and indeed I think that
514 Text |             who inspired me, were far better rhetoricians than Lysias
515 Text |              pathetic case, no one is better than the Chalcedonian giant;
516 Text |            don’t believe you’ has the better of him. Well, the teacher
517 Text |         Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific
518 Text |               that writing was at all better than knowledge and recollection
519 Text |            kind of word or speech far better than this, and having far


Philebus
    Part
520 Intro|            easily induced to take the better part. Philebus, who has
521 Intro|         knowledge. He would have done better to make a separate class
522 Intro|         ancestors; and they, who were better men and nearer the gods
523 Intro|               himself richer, fairer, better, wiser than he is? ‘Yes.’
524 Intro|              to philosophers, but the better part of the world has been
525 Intro|             that mankind has been the better for them. The world was
526 Intro|             not agree either with the better feeling of the multitude
527 Intro|             supposed by them to be no better than children, and with
528 Intro|               You ought’ and ‘you had better’ are fundamental distinctions
529 Intro|             favour, and had therefore better give the larger share, if
530 Intro|             Would the world have been better if there had been no Stoics
531 Intro|             rules of morals which are better explained and more forcibly
532 Intro|            the good of mankind. It is better for him to know that he
533 Intro|        actions to the standard of the better mind of the world, or of
534 Text |               and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than
535 Text |               a third state, which is better than either? Then both of
536 Text |         SOCRATES: Or suppose that the better life is more nearly allied
537 Text |          disposed to move, and we had better not stir him up with questions.~
538 Text |         neither is nor ever will be a better than my own favourite way,
539 Text |              different from them, and better than either. If this be
540 Text |        SOCRATES: Well, but had we not better leave her now, and not pain
541 Text |            because I said that we had better not pain pleasure, which
542 Text |             four, I think that we had better refresh our memories by
543 Text |               points, shall we not be better able to decide about the
544 Text |         PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES: A better and more unexceptionable
545 Text |        SOCRATES: You will soon have a better opportunity of showing whether
546 Text |               PROTARCHUS: Then we had better proceed to analyze this
547 Text |         imagine themselves to be much better men than they are.~PROTARCHUS:
548 Text |              only conjecture, and the better use of the senses which
549 Text |              SOCRATES: But had we not better have a preliminary word
550 Text |               and choose, there is no better companion than knowledge
551 Text |               in that way we shall be better able to judge.~SOCRATES:
552 Text |              perhaps the argument had better be pursued to the end.~SOCRATES:
553 Text |            affirmed that mind was far better and far more excellent,
554 Text |          other things which were also better, I went on to say that if
555 Text |            that if there was anything better than either, then I would
556 Text |            the lusts of animals to be better witnesses than the inspirations


Protagoras
    Part
557 Intro|               That he will make him a better and a wiser man.’ ‘But in
558 Intro|                But in what will he be better?’—Socrates desires to have
559 Intro|            Some, like Protagoras, are better than others, and with this
560 Intro|           argument and represents the better mind of man.~For example: (
561 Text | acknowledgement appears to me to be a better sort of caution than concealment.
562 Text |            day you will return home a better man than you came, and better
563 Text |         better man than you came, and better on the second day than on
564 Text |            day than on the first, and better every day than you were
565 Text |              before, you would become better no doubt: but please to
566 Text |              he would grow and become better if he associated with him:
567 Text |                In what shall I become better, and in what shall I grow?’—
568 Text |                In what shall I become better day by day?’ he would reply, ‘
569 Text |             you he will return home a better man, and on every day will
570 Text |                Protagoras, will he be better? and about what?~When Protagoras
571 Text |              by punishment he becomes better, and he who rebels against
572 Text |           order that their bodies may better minister to the virtuous
573 Text |            anything else; if a man is better able than we are to promote
574 Text |             make men good; but I know better now. Yet I have still one
575 Text |             do, I should have been no better than another, and the name
576 Text |              world that I should like better than to hear you and Protagoras
577 Text |               not to preside over the better; or if he was equal, neither
578 Text |               you say, ‘Let us have a better then,’—to that I answer
579 Text |             another who is not really better, and whom you only say is
580 Text |              and whom you only say is better, to put another over him
581 Text |               think that no man has a better understanding of most things
582 Text |               to me that I may have a better view:—that is the sort of
583 Text |             some other thing would be better and is also attainable,
584 Text |      attainable, when he might do the better. And this inferiority of
585 Text |           nobler, and pleasanter, and better?~The admission of that,
586 Text |               man also go to meet the better, and pleasanter, and nobler?~
587 Text |               time; at present we had better turn to something else.~


The Republic
    Book
588 1    |              which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing
589 1    |              player a more useful and better partner at a game of draughts? ~
590 1    |             just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? ~
591 1    |         partnership is the just man a better partner than the harp-player,
592 1    |             harpplayer is certainly a better partner than the just man? ~
593 1    |         knowing about horses would be better for that, would he not? ~
594 1    |      shipwright or the pilot would be better? ~True. ~Then what is that
595 1    |              the unjust? ~I like that better. ~But see the consequence:
596 1    |               and I think that we had better correct an error into which
597 1    |               about justice other and better, he said, than any of these?
598 1    |          these civilities. It will be better that I should ask you a
599 1    |          Thrasymachus-whether we live better or worse from not knowing
600 1    |               ruling to anyone who is better than themselves, or indeed
601 1    |              Nothing, he said, can be better than that statement. ~And
602 1    |               they might act together better? ~Yes. ~And this is because
603 1    |            just are clearly wiser and better and abler than the unjust,
604 1    |               whether the just have a better and happier life than the
605 2    |             that to be just is always better than to be unjust? ~I should
606 2    |               the unjust is after all better far than the life of the
607 2    |              they think that they had better agree among themselves to
608 2    |               or private, he gets the better of his antagonists, and
609 2    |               wants to honor in a far better style than the just, and
610 2    |         making the life of the unjust better than the life of the just. ~
611 2    |              acknowledging them to be better than the others. But most
612 2    |              truly, why, then, we had better be unjust, and offer of
613 2    |              lips, I expect something better. And therefore, I say, not
614 2    |           prove to us that justice is better than injustice, but show
615 2    |             wits, I think that we had better adopt a method which I may
616 2    |            replied, that would be the better way; and when I hear you
617 2    |              And will you have a work better done when the workman has
618 2    |       plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does
619 2    |            suggestion, I said; we had better think the matter out, and
620 2    |              education? Can we find a better than the traditional sort?-
621 2    |        persons; if possible, they had better be buried in silence. But
622 2    |              right, and they were the better for being punished; but
623 2    |           then change himself for the better and fairer, or for the worse
624 3    |            until it is disproved by a better. ~It ought not to be. ~Neither
625 3    |                and that heroes are no better than men-sentiments which,
626 3    |         however, as I was saying, had better be referred to Damon himself,
627 3    |             said, I think that he had better begin somewhat sooner. ~
628 3    |       experience of disease; they had better not be robust in health,
629 3    |          State. They will minister to better natures, giving health both
630 3    |             of a falsehood and learns better, against his will whenever
631 4    |           them, but they are none the better for it; whereas other men
632 4    |              our poor citizens are no better than mercenaries who are
633 4    |             the human soul there is a better and also a worse principle;
634 4    |               principle; and when the better has the worse under control,
635 4    |         education or association, the better principle, which is also
636 4    |               express the rule of the better part over the worse. ~Yes,
637 4    |             length the desire got the better of him; and forcing them
638 4    |               which reasons about the better and worse to be different
639 5    |           things be uncovered was far better than to cover them up, and
640 5    |               had vanished before the better principle which reason asserted,
641 5    |             excellence, or is one man better than another? ~The latter. ~
642 5    |             And can there be anything better for the interests of the
643 5    |       possible? ~There can be nothing better. ~And this is what the arts
644 5    |               good sort, are not some better than others? ~True. ~And
645 5    |        rebellion. ~Very true. ~Had we better not appoint certain festivals
646 5    |             think that our braver and better youth, besides their other
647 5    |               the inferior, or of the better when they chance to be deformed,
648 5    |             the new generation may be better and more useful than their
649 5    |      protectors is made out to be far better and nobler than that of
650 5    |            disaster, they will be the better for it? ~Clearly. ~Whether
651 5    |              spare them is infinitely better. ~Then no Hellene should
652 5    |               Yes, he said, that is a better temper than the other. ~
653 5    |             answers to your questions better than another-that is all.
654 5    |               I said. Can they have a better place than between being
655 6    |              that we might have had a better view of both of them if
656 6    |             of navigation is not much better. The sailors are quarrelling
657 6    |              him from yielding to his better nature and to render his
658 6    |           steadfast natures which can better be depended upon, which
659 6    |                you will understand me better when I have made some preliminary
660 7    |            sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light
661 7    |              he not say with Homer, ~"Better to be the poor servant of
662 7    |             his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending;
663 7    |                when they might have a better? ~You have again forgotten,
664 7    |             and have educated you far better and more perfectly than
665 7    |            been educated, and you are better able to share in the double
666 7    |           will see ten thousand times better than the inhabitants of
667 7    |           future rulers another and a better life than that of a ruler,
668 7    |              honors and another and a better life than that of politics? ~
669 7    |            from a day which is little better than night to the true day
670 7    |           them. And therefore you had better decide at once with which
671 7    |        obvious enough even to wits no better than ours; and there are
672 7    |           study, and therefore we had better go and learn of them; and
673 7    |           amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural
674 7    |               nothing which they like better. ~And when they have made
675 8    |          steer, even though he were a better pilot? ~You mean that they
676 8    |             one; but, in general, his better desires will be found to
677 8    |             sir, and there will be no better in which to look for a government. ~
678 8    |        guardians and sentinels. ~None better. ~False and boastful conceits
679 8    |               the worse and leave the better part, but he does the reverse. ~
680 9    |           laws and by reason, and the better desires prevail over them-either
681 9    |            meanness. At last, being a better man than his corruptors,
682 9    |             shame remaining, to these better principles he puts an end,
683 9    |        pleasures, and the new got the better of the old and took away
684 9    |            more or less honorable, or better or worse, but which is the
685 9    |              be the criterion? Is any better than experience, and wisdom,
686 9    |            reason? ~There cannot be a better, he said. ~Then, I said,
687 9    |              will enable him to judge better than anyone? ~Far better. ~
688 9    |              better than anyone? ~Far better. ~And he is the only one
689 9    |              but because everyone had better be ruled by divine wisdom
690 9    |            deems likely to make him a better man; but those, whether
691 10   |            upon reflection pleases me better than the rule about poetry. ~
692 10   |        discern what pursuits make men better or worse in private or public
693 10   |           tell us what State was ever better governed by your help? The
694 10   |              measure? ~True. ~And the better part of the soul is likely
695 10   |           delighted by the poets; the better nature in each of us, not
696 10   |             always and everywhere the better life as he has opportunity.
697 10   |             to determine which is the better and which is the worse;


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
698 Text |             Can ignorance possibly be better than knowledge for any person
699 Text |         SOCRATES: Ignorance, then, is better for those who are in such
700 Text |            know whether or when it is better to carry out the advice?~
701 Text |           does not know whether it is better to go to war or for how
702 Text |              land, but not when it is better to do so or for whom it
703 Text |               do so or for whom it is better?~ALCIBIADES: Certainly not.~
704 Text |            who could tell when it was better to apply any of these arts
705 Text |            Lacedaemonians pleaseth me better than all the offerings of
706 Text |               Lacedaemonians. You had better wait until we find out how
707 Text |              if I am likely to be the better for them.~SOCRATES: And


The Seventh Letter
    Part
708 Text |              live for the future in a better way than the majority of
709 Text |          laws-for the other course is better neither for the enslavers
710 Text |           daily life, and to try with better auspices to carry out his
711 Text |   overthrowing an antagonist gets the better of us, and makes the man,


The Sophist
    Part
712 Intro|            them as well as we can. No better image of nature or truth,
713 Intro|        ridiculous and transparent,—no better than those which Plato satirizes
714 Intro|           attempt, I think that I had better begin at the beginning.~
715 Intro|              we may assume them to be better than they are, and able
716 Intro|       Theaetetus, and know their ways better than you do—that being can
717 Text |               many they seem to be no better than madmen. I should like
718 Text |              unless you can suggest a better way.~THEAETETUS: Indeed
719 Text |             Theaetetus, can find some better name?~THEAETETUS: Never
720 Text |              STRANGER: Perhaps we had better divide it.~THEAETETUS: What
721 Text |            separated from like or the better from the worse.~THEAETETUS:
722 Text |               worse and preserves the better, I do know a name.~THEAETETUS:
723 Text |               THEAETETUS: Exactly; no better description of him could
724 Text |         STRANGER: I think that we had better, first of all, consider
725 Text |               be deferred; but we had better now discuss the chief captain
726 Text |             let us imagine them to be better than they are, and more
727 Text |          worth having; for that which better men acknowledge has more
728 Text |            suggestion, having nothing better of their own to offer.~STRANGER:
729 Text |             how he can find something better to say; or if he sees a
730 Text |               STRANGER: You will know better if you first gain a knowledge


The Statesman
    Part
731 Intro|              And the rule of a man is better and higher than law, because
732 Intro|            joke, and there is a still better in the juxtaposition of
733 Intro|        language is, or ought to be, a better instrument of description
734 Intro|           fewer, they would have been better calculated to make men dialecticians.~
735 Intro|           there remain some other and better elements, which adhere to
736 Intro|            solved. Though no one knew better than Plato that the introduction
737 Intro|               live at present, is the better of the two. He wants to
738 Intro|          things; given by metaphysics better than the Eleatic Stranger
739 Intro|               the Laws, whose will is better than any law. He is the
740 Intro|       received forms of government as better than none. And the best
741 Intro|               rule of one good man is better than the rule of all the
742 Intro|               rule of a class neither better nor worse than other classes,
743 Intro|             wise men are likely to be better governors than the unwise
744 Text |          propose. The young always do better when they have intervals
745 Text |         hereafter I think that we had better avoid.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What
746 Text |         STRANGER: I think that we had better not cut off a single small
747 Text |         Whereas you would make a much better and more equal and logical
748 Text |                YOUNG SOCRATES: We had better not take the whole?~STRANGER:
749 Text |           YOUNG SOCRATES: And all the better, Stranger;—we got what we
750 Text |               large; the other agrees better with the principle which
751 Text |            are fresh, we shall get on better. And now attend to the division.~
752 Text |               and soothe his own herd better than he can, either with
753 Text |      knowledge and discussion, we had better let the matter drop, and
754 Text |          science will have a prior or better right than the royal science
755 Text |            persons a living being had better be delineated by language
756 Text |                So I think that we had better go backwards, starting from
757 Text |              order that he may have a better knowledge of all words.~
758 Text |        according as either of them is better calculated to sharpen the
759 Text |           those who took part in them better dialecticians, and more
760 Text |           YOUNG SOCRATES: Then we had better do so.~STRANGER: We must
761 Text |      nourishment, unless you have any better name to offer. This, however,
762 Text |            this, and some of them are better and some of them are worse;
763 Text |           some of them are worse; the better are said to be well governed,
764 Text |               something happens to be better than what he commanded for
765 Text |         something else happened to be better for them,—would he not venture
766 Text |              to do what is juster and better and nobler than he did before,
767 Text |               as may be, to make them better from being worse.~YOUNG
768 Text |               while ago, some for the better and some for the worse.~
769 Text |           during his absence would be better.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Yes, we
770 Text |              with a view to something better, would only be acting, as


The Symposium
    Part
771 Intro|               time. ‘Would you desire better witness?’ The extraordinary
772 Intro|              that his morals would be better cared for than was possible
773 Text |               most wretched being, no better than you are now. I thought
774 Text |               wise:—But perhaps I had better begin at the beginning,
775 Text |          offering sacrifices, not the better to the worse, but the worse
776 Text |           worse, but the worse to the better.~I rather fear, Socrates,
777 Text |             and questionable sort, no better than a dream. But yours
778 Text |                but at present you are better occupied with supper.~Socrates
779 Text |              here assembled cannot do better than honour the god Love.
780 Text |              In our own country a far better principle prevails, but,
781 Text |               time the hiccough is no better, then gargle with a little
782 Text |             muse and would be all the better, I shall only be laughed
783 Text |        precious to those who have the better part in him; parent of delicacy,
784 Text |            men do all things, and the better they are the more they do
785 Text |              not easily find a helper better than love: And therefore,
786 Text |           love of popularity gets the better of me. And therefore I run
787 Text |             late and that he had much better remain. So he lay down on
788 Text |          believe that you can help me better than any one else. And I
789 Text |               by which you may become better; truly you must see in me
790 Text |            his ordinary dress marched better than the other soldiers
791 Text |              the heavy-armed,—I had a better opportunity of seeing him
792 Text |              is determined to get the better of me at every turn. I do


Theaetetus
    Part
793 Intro|             the Theaetetus, it seemed better, as in the case of the Republic,
794 Intro|          surely you and Theodorus had better reflect whether probability
795 Intro|        geometrician if he had nothing better to offer.’...Theaetetus
796 Intro|               may be a thousand times better than another, in proportion
797 Intro|               in proportion as he has better impressions. Neither do
798 Intro|        opinion is not truer, but only better than the old. And philosophers
799 Intro|            have helped himself in far better style.~‘You have made a
800 Intro|                I like the digressions better than the argument, because
801 Intro|             because I understand them better.’~To return. When we left
802 Intro|                Is not a vine-grower a better judge of a vintage which
803 Intro|             thoughts, you will be the better for having got rid of these;
804 Intro|            have none, you will be the better for not fancying that you
805 Intro|              he substituted the word ‘better,’ and is not unwilling to
806 Intro|            afterwards proceed, with a better hope of success, to the
807 Intro|            not. Plato would have done better if he had said that true
808 Intro|         distinguished from opinion. A better distinction is drawn between
809 Intro|             to be an amiable sceptic, better than his own philosophy,
810 Intro|              philosophical problem is better understood when translated
811 Intro|            senses are to the body; or better, they may be compared to
812 Text |               you will see my meaning better:—No woman, as you are probably
813 Text |                that the midwives know better than others who is pregnant
814 Text |              for his wisdom he was no better than a tadpole, not to speak
815 Text |            discern another’s feelings better than he, or has any superior
816 Text |          surely you and Theodorus had better reflect whether you are
817 Text |               may be a thousand times better than another in proportion
818 Text |             other, the worse into the better. As in education, a change
819 Text |           true, I maintain to be only better, and not truer than others.
820 Text |           Well, but is not Theaetetus better able to follow a philosophical
821 Text |               Yes, Theodorus, but not better than you; and therefore
822 Text |             admitted that there was a better and worse, and that in respect
823 Text |             on his behalf, had we not better come to a clearer agreement
824 Text |              wiser and one counsellor better than another—they will scarcely
825 Text |             of unholy things, had far better not be encouraged in the
826 Text |               I am not mistaken, is a better judge of the sweetness or
827 Text |    composition the musician will know better than the training master
828 Text |                And the cook will be a better judge than the guest, who
829 Text |            would not you, Protagoras, better guess which arguments in
830 Text |         prophet nor any other man was better able to judge what will
831 Text |         Therefore I think that we had better begin by considering those
832 Text |               Perhaps, however, I had better allow you to answer for
833 Text |            steps and beginning again. Better a little which is well done,
834 Text |               dispute as you are, had better let the word ‘other’ alone (
835 Text |            may perhaps understand you better; but at present I am unable
836 Text |             whether you can follow me better now: Socrates can recognize
837 Text |              only. But perhaps we had better not say so as yet, for were
838 Text |           afresh, you will be all the better for the present investigation,


Timaeus
    Part
839 Intro|             he regained his first and better nature. Having given this
840 Intro|      council-chamber, and leaving the better principle undisturbed to
841 Intro|              a shorter life which was better was preferable to a longer
842 Intro|               Proclus; but we require better assurance than Proclus can
843 Intro|              reader. Who would desire better evidence than that of Critias,
844 Intro|             in the original cannot do better than devote a few of his
845 Text |             by the painter’s art, or, better still, alive but at rest,
846 Text |        present as well as past are no better—not that I mean to depreciate
847 Text |             you only would, none were better qualified to carry the discussion
848 Text |             to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children.
849 Text |               laws as these and still better ones, and excelled all mankind
850 Text |              can we find that will be better than this, which is natural
851 Text |            that this was in every way better than the other. Now the
852 Text |             the form of his first and better state. Having given all
853 Text |           influence of reason got the better of necessity, the universe
854 Text |          shorter-lived race which was better, came to the conclusion
855 Text |               span of life, which was better, to a longer one, which
856 Text |            frame of the body gets the better of them and its newer triangles
857 Text |             the stronger, getting the better and increasing their own