(...) Menexenus
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501 Text |           Gods respecting her. And ought not the country which the
502 Text |   themselves a government, which I ought briefly to commemorate.
503 Text |          men who thought that they ought to fight both against Hellenes
504 Text |          only, but in deed. And we ought also to remember those who
505 Text |            men. And I think that I ought now to repeat what your
506 Text |        them. Considering this, you ought to bear your calamity the


Meno
    Part
507 Text |            with justice is virtue? Ought I not to ask the question
508 Text |           the moral is, that a man ought to live always in perfect
509 Text |     recollection. And therefore we ought not to listen to this sophistical
510 Text |       forms the side of eight feet ought to be more than this line
511 Text |        other of four feet?~BOY: It ought.~SOCRATES: Try and see if
512 Text |            times.~SOCRATES: But it ought to have been twice only,
513 Text |       helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should


Parmenides
    Part
514 Intro|       These ‘surds’ of metaphysics ought to occasion no more difficulty
515 Text |        Parmenides, as to whether I ought to include them or not.~
516 Text |          being such as we say they ought to be, must remain unknown,
517 Text |           you, as Zeno says that I ought, and we are alone. Where
518 Text |         one?~True.~But, surely, it ought to be one and not many?~
519 Text |            be one and not many?~It ought.~Then, if the one is to
520 Text |          if it is to touch itself, ought to be situated next to itself,
521 Text |        that in which itself is?~It ought.~And that would require
522 Text |          Certainly.~2.a. Well, and ought we not to consider next
523 Text |            the one is not?~Yes; we ought.~What is the meaning of


Phaedo
    Part
524 Intro|             what manner of persons ought we to be?’ having regard
525 Text |         enquired Cebes, that a man ought not to take his own life,
526 Text |            And so you think that I ought to answer your indictment
527 Text |          Simmias and Cebes, that I ought to be grieved at death,
528 Text |          and I can agree about it:—Ought the philosopher to care
529 Text |          coin for which all things ought to be exchanged?—and that
530 Text |            account of them such as ought to be given.~Then you are
531 Text |          evil, they feel that they ought not to resist her influence,
532 Text |        philosopher thinks that she ought not to resist this deliverance,
533 Text |         yet, he said, there surely ought to be harmony in a discourse
534 Text |        harmony is the theme.~There ought, replied Simmias.~But there
535 Text | contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did
536 Text |      seeing all these things, what ought not we to do that we may
537 Text |         hope great!~A man of sense ought not to say, nor will I be
538 Text |          is a glorious one, and he ought to comfort himself with


Phaedrus
    Part
539 Intro|          effect that the non-lover ought to be accepted rather than
540 Intro|            my error to Lysias, who ought to study philosophy instead
541 Intro|          the debatable class there ought to be a definition of all
542 Intro|       supposition that love is and ought to be interested, and that
543 Intro|            and like other parables ought not to receive too minute
544 Text |          us. And I maintain that I ought not to fail in my suit,
545 Text |    successful lover to praise what ought not to give him pleasure,
546 Text |       associations. Further, if we ought to shower favours on those
547 Text |     suitors,—on that principle, we ought always to do good, not to
548 Text |          your head. Yet surely you ought not to be granting favours
549 Text |     censure of the world. Now love ought to be for the advantage
550 Text |         this very argument—that he ought to accept the non-lover
551 Text |   imprecation, not knowing that he ought never from the first to
552 Text |         ceteris paribus’ the lover ought to be accepted rather than
553 Text |         addressing before, and who ought to listen now; lest, if
554 Text |           I said’ that the beloved ought to accept the non-lover
555 Text |       lover of music like yourself ought surely to have heard the
556 Text |         For many reasons, then, we ought always to talk and not to
557 Text |         speak about anything as he ought to speak unless he have
558 Text |    interest; and I maintain that I ought not to fail in my suit,
559 Text |     SOCRATES: Then the rhetorician ought to make a regular division,
560 Text |         interest; and I maintain I ought not to fail in my suit because
561 Text |        just the reverse of what he ought; for he has begun at the
562 Text |         allow that every discourse ought to be a living creature,
563 Text |       other examples of what a man ought rather to avoid. But I will
564 Text |           other that the non-lover ought to be accepted.~PHAEDRUS:
565 Text |           accusation or defence. I ought also to mention the illustrious
566 Text |            he was right:—still, we ought not to be content with the
567 Text |            about any other nature. Ought we not to consider first
568 Text |        surely, he who is an artist ought not to admit of a comparison
569 Text |          is in my power, how a man ought to proceed according to
570 Text |          this is the character who ought to have a certain argument
571 Text |            if they are improbable, ought to be withheld, and only
572 Text |          trouble, which a good man ought to undergo, not for the
573 Text |         also a friend of yours who ought not to be forgotten.~SOCRATES:


Philebus
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574 Intro|      principle,’ it seems as if we ought now to read ‘the noblest
575 Intro|         the authority of law? ‘You ought’ and ‘you had better’ are
576 Text |          truth about these matters ought, by all means, to be ascertained.~
577 Text |     prevail, but I presume that we ought both of us to be fighting
578 Text |           PROTARCHUS: Certainly we ought.~SOCRATES: Then let us have
579 Text |         order of the world, we too ought in every enquiry to begin
580 Text |           when measured by numbers ought, as they say, to be called
581 Text |    aspiring to the second prize, I ought to have weapons of another
582 Text |       class of the finite which we ought to have brought together
583 Text |     question?~SOCRATES: Whether we ought to say that the pleasures
584 Text |          the greatest pleasures he ought to go and look, not at health,
585 Text |           Certainly.~SOCRATES: And ought we not to select some of
586 Text |          PROTARCHUS: To be sure we ought.~SOCRATES: Take the case
587 Text |           teach this doctrine, and ought not we to be grateful to
588 Text |             as I said at first, we ought to be very grateful to him
589 Text |        names expressing cognition, ought not the fairest to be given
590 Text |          says the proverb, that we ought to repeat twice and even
591 Text |        living beings, at which all ought to aim, and moreover that
592 Text |        PROTARCHUS: I think that we ought to do what you suggest.~
593 Text |        pronounce upon them; for we ought to see to which of the two
594 Text |           under the idea that they ought not to meet the eye of day.~


Protagoras
    Part
595 Intro|            and with this result we ought to be satisfied.~Socrates
596 Intro|         introducing the poets, who ought not to be allowed, any more
597 Intro|        that Protagoras the Sophist ought always to be in the wrong,
598 Text |      private gentleman and freeman ought to know them?~Just so, he
599 Text |          any one as to whether you ought to intrust yourself to him
600 Text |      improved by his conversation, ought to be very cautious; great
601 Text |   disbelieve your assertion. And I ought to tell you why I am of
602 Text |          they think that every man ought to share in this sort of
603 Text |     madness. They say that all men ought to profess honesty whether
604 Text |           if he has none at all he ought not to be in the world.~
605 Text |            other artists. As yet I ought not to say the same of Paralus
606 Text |            like in some particular ought not to be called alike,
607 Text |         who are capable of either, ought to speak shorter as I beg
608 Text |          is my view, and every man ought to say what he thinks.~When
609 Text |        present at such discussions ought to be impartial hearers
610 Text |         then the inferior or worse ought not to preside over the
611 Text |        time how, as I maintain, he ought to answer: and when I have
612 Text |       countryman of yours, and you ought to come to his aid. I must
613 Text |            us ask Prodicus, for he ought to be able to answer questions
614 Text |        think that he is unfair; he ought either to proceed with the
615 Text |        said; or shall I begin?~You ought to take the lead, he said;
616 Text |           knows to be evil when he ought not, because he is overcome
617 Text |            knowledge of when a man ought to choose the greater or
618 Text |            is your wish; for I too ought long since to have kept


The Republic
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619 1    |         night, which you certainly ought to see. Let us rise soon
620 1    |          Socrates, as often as you ought: If I were still able to
621 1    |          have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way
622 1    |          is not in his right mind, ought I to give them back to him?
623 1    |            No one would say that I ought or that I should be right
624 1    |         than they would say that I ought always to speak the truth
625 1    |            just now saying, that I ought to return a deposit of arms
626 1    |            he thinks that a friend ought always to do good to a friend,
627 1    |             Then I suppose that we ought to do good to the just and
628 1    |       friends, and in that case he ought to do harm to them; and
629 1    |           has good enemies whom he ought to benefit; but, if so,
630 1    |           me to be the truth. ~But ought the just to injure anyone
631 1    |            at all? ~Undoubtedly he ought to injure those who are
632 1    |           the person who is asked, ought he not to say what he thinks,
633 1    |         question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? ~
634 1    |         replied. ~Then I certainly ought not to shrink from going
635 2    |          your voice sooner than he ought to have been; but to my
636 2    |            will understand that he ought to seem only, and not to
637 2    |         Yes, far more easily. ~But ought we to attempt to construct
638 2    |           I mean that both of them ought to be quick to see, and
639 2    |              Whereas, I said, they ought to be dangerous to their
640 2    |            even if they were true, ought certainly not to be lightly
641 2    |            the founders of a State ought to know the general forms
642 3    |           laughing at them as they ought, hardly will any of them
643 3    |            but that surely is what ought not to be, as the argument
644 3    |         disproved by a better. ~It ought not to be. ~Neither ought
645 3    |          ought not to be. ~Neither ought our guardians to be given
646 3    |      strongly of opinion that they ought not to hear that sort of
647 3    |          by famous men, these they ought to see and hear; as, for
648 3    |          you whether our guardians ought to be imitators; or rather,
649 3    |         not bear on this end, they ought not to practise or imitate
650 3    |           of whom we say that they ought to be good men, to imitate
651 3    |            can see already what we ought to say about them, if we
652 3    |          to the same rules, for we ought not to seek out complex
653 3    |           in his condition of life ought to use the art of medicine
654 3    |          to put a question to you: Ought there not to be good physicians
655 3    |           governs mind by mind; he ought not therefore to have been
656 3    |          our opinion the guardians ought to have both these qualities? ~
657 3    |         Yes. ~And to this end they ought to be wise and efficient,
658 3    |     guardian" in the fullest sense ought to be applied to this higher
659 3    |        much more certain that they ought to be, and that true education,
660 3    |          is current among men, and ought not to pollute the divine
661 4    |         parts of the body-the eyes ought to be purple, but you have
662 4    |         but our own! ~Why so? ~You ought to speak of other States
663 4    |         new kind of song; and this ought not to be praised, or conceived
664 4    |            to the whole State, and ought to be prohibited. So Damon
665 4    |         which the law ordains, and ought to have another name. ~Most
666 4    |            remember that too. ~And ought not the rational principle,
667 4    |            of reason about what he ought or ought not to fear? ~Right,
668 4    |      reason about what he ought or ought not to fear? ~Right, he
669 4    |         equally agreed that reason ought to rule, and do not rebel? ~
670 5    |       steps and say what I perhaps ought to have said before in the
671 5    |         are so entirely different, ought to perform the same actions?"
672 5    |             that different natures ought to have different pursuits,
673 5    |             that different natures ought to have the same pursuits-this
674 5    |             that different natures ought to have different pursuits,
675 5    |           that such pursuit or art ought to be assigned to one or
676 5    |          guardians and their wives ought to have the same pursuits. ~
677 5    |        character? ~Very true. ~And ought not the same natures to
678 5    |           the same pursuits? ~They ought. ~Then, as we were saying
679 5    |      forbid. ~Yes, he said, and it ought not to be permitted. ~Then
680 5    |           reason, and such fathers ought to have as many sons as
681 5    |           Why, said I, and so they ought. Let us, however, proceed
682 5    |           asking of ourselves what ought to be the chief aim of the
683 5    |          and plurality where unity ought to reign? or any greater
684 5    |           not. ~At the same time I ought here to repeat what I have
685 5    |              Next as to the slain; ought the conquerors, I said,
686 5    |           be an Hellenic city? ~It ought to be, he replied. ~Then
687 5    | unbelievers that you are right. ~I ought to try, I said, since you
688 5    |  discovered to be some natures who ought to study philosophy and
689 5    |          he is worthy of the name, ought to show his love, not to
690 5    |          of pleasure like yourself ought to know that all who are
691 6    |           who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects
692 6    |          light up again. ~But what ought to be their course? ~Just
693 6    |          such and so great as this ought the best men in our State,
694 7    |          not this unjust? he said; ought we to give them a worse
695 7    |        said. ~And those who govern ought not to be lovers of the
696 7    |     perfection of being, which she ought, by all means, to behold. ~
697 7    |           and dimensions of depth, ought to have followed. ~That
698 7    |     perfection which all knowledge ought to reach, and which our
699 7    |        reach, and which our pupils ought also to attain, and not
700 7    |            them sciences, but they ought to have some other name,
701 7    |            not? ~Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the
702 7    |        most at home in all of them ought to be enrolled in a select
703 8    |           we shall know whether we ought to pursue injustice, as
704 8    |           into the world when they ought not. Now that which is of
705 8    |           understand, he replied. ~Ought I not to begin by describing
706 8    |          evil desires, and that he ought to use and honor some, and
707 8    |          and lawgiver of the State ought, like the wise bee-master,
708 8    |           aver that a grown-up son ought not to be supported by his
709 9    |           him; but let us go as we ought into every corner of the
710 9    |           he said. ~Well, but what ought to be the criterion? Is
711 9    |          were saying, the decision ought to rest. ~Yes. ~And reasoning
712 9    |           them with one another-he ought rather to suffer them to
713 9    |           the best, we say that he ought to be the servant of the
714 10   |            poetry, which certainly ought not to be received; as I
715 10   |            can never be a poet, we ought to consider whether here
716 10   |            he will tell him how he ought to make them, and the other
717 10   |           them rule, although they ought to be controlled, if mankind
718 10   |          are the only poetry which ought to be admitted into our
719 10   |     maintain this? ~Yes, I said, I ought to be, and you too-there
720 10   |          men, still this admission ought to be made for the sake
721 10   |        unjust after death. And you ought to hear them, and then both


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
722 Text |          imagine, then, that a man ought to be very careful, lest
723 Text |          as sensible who know what ought to be done or said?~ALCIBIADES:
724 Text |           will say or do what they ought not without their own knowledge?~
725 Text |             prithee.~SOCRATES: You ought not to bid him use auspicious
726 Text |            suppose that we know or ought to know that which we propose
727 Text |           Decidedly.~SOCRATES: But ought we not then, think you,
728 Text |       sacrifices of theirs. And we ought, I think, to be very careful


The Seventh Letter
    Part
729 Text |         belief that the Syracusans ought to be free and governed
730 Text |          two minds as to whether I ought to listen to entreaties
731 Text |        entreaties and go, or how I ought to act; and finally the
732 Text |         the good lawgiver and king ought to be; for he drew up laws
733 Text |        share of right intelligence ought to know that in times of
734 Text |         any other right-minded man ought to be. With regard to his


The Sophist
    Part
735 Intro|         level with mankind when he ought to be above them. There
736 Intro|            class of imitators.~But ought we to give him up? ‘I should
737 Text |          and I another; whereas we ought always to come to an understanding
738 Text |        which includes all of them, ought not that art to have one
739 Text |           in the soul, and that we ought to consider cowardice, intemperance,
740 Text |         who would be truly blessed ought to be fairest and purest.~
741 Text |       would not be found tripping, ought to be very careful in this
742 Text |            art, what the craftsman ought to say in answer to any
743 Text |        STRANGER: Then, clearly, we ought as soon as possible to divide
744 Text |      maintain that you may not and ought not to attribute being to
745 Text |         consultation as to what we ought to do about the Sophist;
746 Text |          is another thing which we ought to bear in mind.~THEAETETUS:
747 Text |           to advance even a little ought to be of good cheer, for


The Statesman
    Part
748 Intro|            persons language is, or ought to be, a better instrument
749 Intro|            the miseries of states? Ought we not rather to admire
750 Intro|            has the power, for what ought to be is (‘Was ist vernunftig,
751 Intro|         das ist wirklich’); and he ought to be and is the true governor
752 Intro|          their endurance. For they ought to have perished long ago,
753 Intro|            3) the sophistical—what ought to be, what might be, what
754 Intro|         had been received, as they ought to be, on the authority
755 Text |            which the ruler himself ought to have?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
756 Text |       YOUNG SOCRATES: He certainly ought to be.~STRANGER: And the
757 Text |       Quite true.~STRANGER: But he ought not, like the calculator,
758 Text |         original intention than we ought, and you would have us wander
759 Text |         Yes.~STRANGER: But then we ought not to divide, as we did,
760 Text |           And do you agree that we ought to divide the collective
761 Text |          one who was a god when he ought to have been a man; and
762 Text |           on which I think that we ought to dwell are the following:—~
763 Text |         Phaedr.), and therefore we ought to train ourselves to give
764 Text |           original material, which ought to have been placed first;
765 Text | constitution; they think that they ought to go more roughly to work,
766 Text |          would acknowledge that we ought to be too glad to have him,
767 Text |          ruin all that it touched. Ought we not rather to wonder
768 Text |       SOCRATES: Yes.~STRANGER: And ought the other sciences to be
769 Text |           science to any other? Or ought this science to be the overseer
770 Text |            which judges whether we ought to learn or not, must be
771 Text |        which determines whether we ought to persuade or not, must
772 Text |         royal. For the truly royal ought not itself to act, but to
773 Text |          are able to act; the king ought to know what is and what
774 Text |           their own, have, as they ought to have, special names corresponding


The Symposium
    Part
775 Intro|         that the writer of tragedy ought to be a writer of comedy
776 Intro|              the lion’s whelp, who ought not to be reared in the
777 Text |          are now. I thought that I ought to do anything rather than
778 Text |            For the principle which ought to be the guide of men who
779 Text |      called heavenly. All the gods ought to have praise given to
780 Text |         the coarser sort of lovers ought to be restrained by force;
781 Text |  philosophy and virtue in general, ought to meet in one, and then
782 Text |          Eryximachus, he said, you ought either to stop my hiccough,
783 Text |         well as divine, both loves ought to be noted as far as may
784 Text |           done, and most certainly ought to be done: since of all
785 Text |           encomium on Love which I ought to receive from him and
786 Text |             Let me say first how I ought to speak, and then speak:—~
787 Text |          young and also tender; he ought to have a poet like Homer
788 Text |            conception how anything ought to be praised. For in my
789 Text |         also, I say that every man ought to honour him as I myself
790 Text |         but have well drunken, you ought to speak, and then impose
791 Text |            makes me confess that I ought not to live as I do, neglecting
792 Text |           answer him or say that I ought not to do as he bids, but
793 Text |     rescued me and my arms; and he ought to have received the prize
794 Text |          and your notion is that I ought to love you and nobody else,
795 Text |          and that you and you only ought to love Agathon. But the
796 Text |          praised me, and I in turn ought to praise my neighbour on
797 Text |          praising me again when he ought rather to be praised by


Theaetetus
    Part
798 Intro|           the hearer of the eulogy ought to examine into what he
799 Intro|           that the midwives are or ought to be the only matchmakers (
800 Intro|           ready to assent.’~‘But I ought not to conceal from you
801 Intro|       enquiring what such a nature ought to do or suffer different
802 Text |            disobey, and whose word ought to be a command to a young
803 Text |         one of these men can be or ought to be made wiser than the
804 Text |       earthly sphere. Wherefore we ought to fly away from earth to
805 Text |        which above all things they ought to know—not stripes and
806 Text |   Certainly it would.~SOCRATES: He ought not to speak of the name,
807 Text |            and ‘not thus.’ But you ought not to use the word ‘thus,’
808 Text |            is the way in which you ought to answer, Theaetetus, and
809 Text |           reason for asking how we ought to speak when an arithmetician
810 Text |           our birds: whereas there ought to have been forms of ignorance
811 Text |         watch properly. Perhaps we ought to have maintained that
812 Text |     Theaetetus, and thinks that he ought to write and does write
813 Text |        Theododorus, thinks that he ought to write and does write


Timaeus
    Part
814 Intro|           and water is black, snow ought to be black.)~The greatest ‘
815 Text |         then they would be as they ought to be, gentle to their friends
816 Text |      Athenians ever did, and which ought to have been the most famous,
817 Text |   permanent and intelligible, they ought to be lasting and unalterable,
818 Text |            only mortal men, and we ought to accept the tale which
819 Text |           that this created animal ought to have species of a like
820 Text |            kind of animal which it ought to contain, if it is to
821 Text |            intellect and knowledge ought to explore causes of intelligent
822 Text |   represents them as permanent. We ought not to apply ‘this’ to any
823 Text |            are compounded of them, ought not to be so denominated.
824 Text | resemblances of all eternal beings ought to be devoid of any particular
825 Text |           probable truth of nature ought duly to consider.~Unless
826 Text |          appearance. Wherefore, we ought to term white that which
827 Text |          conclusion that every one ought to prefer a shorter span
828 Text |      multiplies them. Wherefore we ought always to manage them by