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The Apology
Part
1 Text | the god.~There is another thing:—young men of the richer
2 Text | an unrighteous or unholy thing. For the strong arm of that
3 Text | justice, as I ought, the first thing? No indeed, men of Athens,
4 Text | one? Doubtless some good thing, O men of Athens, if he
5 Text | what is true, although a thing of which it is hard for
6 Text | death. And I have another thing to say to them: you think
7 Text | talk with you about the thing which has come to pass,
Charmides
Part
8 Intro| Temperance is a fine and noble thing; and quietness in many or
9 Intro| most cases is not so fine a thing as quickness.’ He tries
10 Text | soul; that is the first thing. And the cure, my dear youth,
11 Text | that would be a strange thing for me to say of myself,
12 Text | us to be a good and noble thing, and the quick have been
13 Text | to me to have meant one thing, and said another. Is the
14 Text | the art of weighing is one thing, and the heavy and the light
15 Text | others are greater, then that thing would have the property
16 Text | were saying, is the only thing which the physician understands.~
17 Text | out what good this sort of thing does to us.~What do you
18 Text | should like to know one thing more: which of the different
19 Text | past, present, or future thing? May I infer this to be
20 Text | Thracian, for the sake of a thing which is nothing worth.
21 Text | I know whether I have a thing, of which even you and Critias
Cratylus
Part
22 Intro| perfect expression of a thing, or a mere inarticulate
23 Intro| expresses the nature of a thing; and is the invention not
24 Intro| bear a resemblance to the thing signified. I must remind
25 Intro| used? Imitation is a poor thing, and has to be supplemented
26 Intro| convention, which is another poor thing; although I agree with you
27 Intro| and always good? Can the thing beauty be vanishing away
28 Intro| himself to be an unreal thing, nor will he believe that
29 Intro| is or is not a name for a thing, we cannot argue that the
30 Intro| we cannot argue that the thing has or has not an actual
31 Intro| the three. Language is a thing of degrees and relations
32 Intro| which adapts the word to the thing, adapts the sentence or
33 Intro| word corresponds to the thing signified by it; or bombos (
34 Text | is, that the name of each thing is only that which anybody
35 Text | be so many names of each thing as everybody says that there
36 Text | admit that there was no such thing as a bad man?~HERMOGENES:
37 Text | true natural name of each thing into sounds and syllables,
38 Text | looks to the name which each thing by nature has, and is able
39 Text | man knows how to give a thing a name.~HERMOGENES: Very
40 Text | long as the essence of the thing remains in possession of
41 Text | bargainer; all that sort of thing has a great deal to do with
42 Text | name at once signifies the thing, and you may clearly understand
43 Text | the name of this sort of thing, arete will be the opposite
44 Text | which being the swiftest thing in existence, allows of
45 Text | essential nature of each thing—just as boule (counsel)
46 Text | imitate the nature of the thing; the elevation of our hands
47 Text | there not an essence of each thing, just as there is a colour,
48 Text | express the essence of each thing in letters and syllables,
49 Text | express the nature of each thing?~HERMOGENES: Quite so.~SOCRATES:
50 Text | letter is used to denote one thing, or whether there is to
51 Text | indicates the nature of the thing:—has this proposition been
52 Text | not falsehood saying the thing which is not?~SOCRATES:
53 Text | is not the same with the thing named?~CRATYLUS: I should.~
54 Text | name is an imitation of the thing?~CRATYLUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
55 Text | exactly the same with the thing; but allow the occasional
56 Text | and acknowledge that the thing may be named, and described,
57 Text | general character of the thing which you are describing
58 Text | letters are wanting, still the thing is signified;—well, if all
59 Text | name is the expression of a thing in letters or syllables;
60 Text | the representation of a thing?~CRATYLUS: Yes, I do.~SOCRATES:
61 Text | the name is to be like the thing, the letters out of which
62 Text | resemble any actually existing thing, unless the original elements
63 Text | Hermogenes says, is a shabby thing, which has to be supplemented
64 Text | name is, so also is the thing; and that he who knows the
65 Text | that; must not the same thing be born and retire and vanish
66 Text | Then how can that be a real thing which is never in the same
67 Text | the good and every other thing also exist, then I do not
Critias
Part
68 Text | we may observe the same thing to happen in discourse;
Crito
Part
69 Text | greatest good— and what a fine thing this would be! But in reality
70 Text | over, and there is only one thing to be done, which must be
Euthydemus
Part
71 Intro| Dionysodorus, ‘there is no such thing as contradiction. When you
72 Intro| and I describe the same thing, or you describe one thing
73 Intro| thing, or you describe one thing and I describe another,
74 Intro| paradox? Is there no such thing as error, ignorance, falsehood?
75 Text | exhibition; but tell me one thing,—can you make a good man
76 Text | imagines that virtue is a thing which cannot be taught at
77 Text | those who have or have not a thing?~Those who have not.~And
78 Text | already, and saying the same thing twice over.~He asked what
79 Text | And the wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use;
80 Text | possession and every use of a thing, knowledge is that which
81 Text | telling a lie, do you tell the thing of which you speak or not?~
82 Text | speak or not?~You tell the thing of which you speak.~And
83 Text | he who tells, tells that thing which he tells, and no other?~
84 Text | And that is a distinct thing apart from other things?~
85 Text | Certainly.~And he who says that thing says that which is?~Yes.~
86 Text | there never was such a thing.~Certainly there is, he
87 Text | are describing the same thing? Then we must surely be
88 Text | surely be speaking the same thing?~He assented.~Or when neither
89 Text | is speaking of the same thing? For then neither of us
90 Text | us says a word about the thing at all?~He granted that
91 Text | and you describe another thing, or I say something and
92 Text | is that there is no such thing as falsehood; a man must
93 Text | said.~Then there is no such thing as false opinion?~No, he
94 Text | said.~Then there is no such thing as ignorance, or men who
95 Text | ignorance, if there be such a thing, a mistake of fact?~Certainly,
96 Text | ignorance, there can be no such thing as erroneous action, for
97 Text | question: If there is no such thing as error in deed, word,
98 Text | knows only how to make a thing, and not to use it when
99 Text | mean to say that the same thing cannot be and also not be;
100 Text | therefore, since I know one thing, that I know all, for I
101 Text | I said, what a wonderful thing, and what a great blessing!
102 Text | replied, if they know one thing.~O heavens, Dionysodorus,
103 Text | further tell us this one thing, and then we shall know
104 Text | the same, or sometimes one thing, and sometimes another thing?~
105 Text | thing, and sometimes another thing?~Always, I replied, when
106 Text | war to have arms is a good thing, he ought to have as many
107 Text | possession of gold is a good thing?~Yes, said Ctesippus, and
108 Text | you ever see a beautiful thing?~Yes, Dionysodorus, I replied,
109 Text | he said, by reason of one thing being present with another,
110 Text | present with another, will one thing be another?~Is that your
111 Text | attainment is an excellent thing; but at the same time I
112 Text | impediment. And I must repeat one thing which they said, for your
113 Text | philosophy is a charming thing.’ ‘Charming!’ he said; ‘
Euthyphro
Part
114 Text | may be doing an impious thing in bringing an action against
115 Text | what we are saying. That thing or person which is dear
116 Text | gods is pious, and that thing or person which is hateful
117 Text | EUTHYPHRO: True.~SOCRATES: And a thing is not seen because it is
118 Text | because it is seen; nor is a thing led because it is in the
119 Text | us; for there is no good thing which they do not give;
120 Text | how we can give any good thing to them in return is far
The First Alcibiades
Part
121 Text | not run to fetch the same thing, when they want a piece
122 Text | expedient for mankind, or why a thing is expedient?~ALCIBIADES:
123 Text | shown in the rescue is one thing, and the death another?~
124 Text | to take proper care of a thing is a correct expression?~
125 Text | which takes care of each thing is different from that which
126 Text | of the belongings of each thing?~ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES:
127 Text | self-knowledge such an easy thing, and was he to be lightly
128 Text | self-knowledge a difficult thing, which few are able to attain?~
129 Text | user is not the same as the thing which he uses?~ALCIBIADES:
Gorgias
Part
130 Intro| seem; for the next best thing to a man’s being just is
131 Intro| self-defence. Rhetoric is a good thing, but, like all good things,
132 Intro| and rhetoric is a just thing. But Gorgias has already
133 Intro| replies Socrates, but a thing which in your book you affirm
134 Intro| created art. Polus asks, ‘What thing?’ and Socrates answers,
135 Intro| But is not rhetoric a fine thing?’ I have not yet told you
136 Intro| philosophy is an excellent thing; too much is the ruin of
137 Intro| and that is the provoking thing.’ Not provoking to a man
138 Intro| another life. For no visible thing can reveal the invisible.
139 Intro| and ‘there is some better thing remaining for the good than
140 Text | question; there is such a thing as ‘having learned’?~GORGIAS:
141 Text | not possibly be an unjust thing. But when you added, shortly
142 Text | arose a contradiction—the thing which you dearly love, and
143 Text | is rhetoric?~SOCRATES: A thing which, as I was lately reading
144 Text | made an art.~POLUS: What thing?~SOCRATES: I should say
145 Text | must not rhetoric be a fine thing?~SOCRATES: What are you
146 Text | whether rhetoric is a fine thing or not, when I have not
147 Text | not think rhetoric a fine thing? But I shall not tell him
148 Text | whether rhetoric is a fine thing or not, until I have first
149 Text | not call any irrational thing an art; but if you dispute
150 Text | sake of which they do a thing? when they take medicine,
151 Text | which we do, but that other thing for the sake of which we
152 Text | so as to cause pain, the thing burned will be burned in
153 Text | being healed a pleasant thing, and are those who are being
154 Text | not.~SOCRATES: A useful thing, then?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
155 Text | son of Cleinias says one thing to-day and another thing
156 Text | thing to-day and another thing to-morrow, but philosophy
157 Text | that being just the sort of thing in which you delight. Whereupon
158 Text | education, is an excellent thing, and there is no disgrace
159 Text | more advanced in years, the thing becomes ridiculous, and
160 Text | himself’?~SOCRATES: A simple thing enough; just what is commonly
161 Text | to your view is an awful thing; and indeed I think that
162 Text | child, sometimes saying one thing, and then another, as if
163 Text | agreed that there is such a thing as good, and that there
164 Text | and that there is such a thing as pleasure, and that pleasure
165 Text | and this is the sort of thing which I term flattery, whether
166 Text | is not that the sort of thing, Callicles, which we were
167 Text | drink or any other pleasant thing, which may be really as
168 Text | But the virtue of each thing, whether body or soul, instrument
169 Text | is not the virtue of each thing dependent on order or arrangement?
170 Text | And that which makes a thing good is the proper order
171 Text | proper order inhering in each thing? Such is my view. And is
172 Text | that just the provoking thing?~SOCRATES: Nay, not to a
173 Text | art; which is a foolish thing?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES:
174 Text | that rhetoric is a perfect thing, and sophistry a thing to
175 Text | perfect thing, and sophistry a thing to be despised; whereas
176 Text | to die justly is a hard thing, and greatly to be praised,
177 Text | and that the next best thing to a man being just is that
Ion
Part
178 Text | his words by rote, is a thing greatly to be envied. And
179 Text | commonplace and trivial thing is this which I have said—
180 Text | this which I have said—a thing which any man might say:
181 Text | light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention
182 Text | which is nearly the same thing; for he is taken hold of.
183 Text | Yes, that is the sort of thing which the rhapsode will
Laches
Part
184 Intro| endurance. But courage is a good thing, and mere endurance may
185 Text | for the sake of another thing, he thinks of the end and
186 Text | being reminded of any wrong thing which we are, or have been,
187 Text | would improve some other thing, and were able to make the
188 Text | Why, surely courage is one thing, and wisdom another.~SOCRATES:
189 Text | this is certainly not a thing which every pig would know,
190 Text | want you to be thinking one thing and myself another. Let
Laws
Book
191 1 | regarded as a really good thing, but as a necessity; a man
192 1 | instances of the same sort of thing), all this is not to the
193 1 | anything must practise that thing from his youth upwards,
194 1 | is the first and fairest thing that the best of men can
195 1 | or say some dishonourable thing, which fear we and all men
196 2 | wrong, and they praise one thing, but are pleased at another.
197 2 | Boreas”; and let no other thing that is called good ever
198 2 | profitable and gainful is one thing, and the just another; and
199 2 | Truth, Stranger, is a noble thing and a lasting, but a thing
200 2 | thing and a lasting, but a thing of which men are hard to
201 2 | accompanying charm, either the best thing in them is this very charm,
202 2 | saying, in rendering the thing imitated according to quantity
203 2 | even if we know that the thing pictured or sculptured is
204 2 | acknowledge that all this sort of thing, which aims only at swiftness
205 2 | man who does not know a thing, as we were saying, know
206 2 | were saying, know that the thing is right?~Cleinias. Impossible.~
207 3 | Athenian. There is another thing which would probably happen.~
208 3 | they see some beautiful thing which might have effected
209 3 | an unholy and unpatriotic thing?~Megillus. Yes; let that
210 3 | shamelessness, which is so evil a thing, but the insolent refusal
211 4 | laws, that they look to one thing only, and this, as you both
212 4 | imitation of enemies was a bad thing; and I was thinking of a
213 4 | not the most honourable thing for men, as the vulgar think,
214 4 | and yet there is another thing which may be said with equal
215 4 | entrusted. For there is a thing which has occurred times
216 4 | in states—~Cleinias. What thing?~Athenian. That when there
217 4 | if we can guarantee one thing.~Cleinias. What is that?~
218 4 | there is more truth in one thing that he has said than in
219 4 | two rules about the same thing, but one only. Take an example
220 4 | though there was no such thing in nature. Whereas our present
221 5 | divine good, and no evil thing is honourable; and he who
222 5 | contract is a most holy thing, and that all concerns and
223 5 | beginning of every good thing, both to Gods and men; and
224 5 | surpass also in the very thing which we all of us desire—
225 5 | and quite simple.~The next thing to be noted is, that the
226 6 | monster is such a hideous thing.~Cleinias. Excellent, Stranger.~
227 6 | harm in repeating a good thing—that the Cnosians should
228 6 | are agreed about a certain thing.~Cleinias. About what thing?~
229 6 | thing.~Cleinias. About what thing?~Athenian. You know. the
230 6 | Assuredly, that is the sort of thing which every one would desire.~
231 7 | first shoot of every living thing is by far the greatest and
232 7 | of the heart, which is a thing much to be desired, sending
233 7 | chants. That is the sort of thing which will be appropriate
234 7 | the lyre—all that sort of thing is not suited to those who
235 7 | is certainly an unseemly thing to happen in a state, as
236 7 | and that there is a third thing called depth?~Cleinias.
237 7 | A man who is good for a thing ought to be able, when he
238 8 | does the thought of such a thing ever enter at all into the
239 8 | disagreeable and bitter thing. Wherefore a man ought to
240 9 | do you mean?~Athenian. A thing not difficult to understand;
241 9 | idea that there is no such thing as voluntary crime?~Cleinias.
242 9 | borders. And if any lifeless thing deprive a man of life, except
243 9 | shall cast forth the guilty thing beyond the border, as has
244 9 | Wherefore it is a foul thing and hateful to the Gods
245 10 | that the honourable is one thing by nature and another thing
246 10 | thing by nature and another thing by law, and that the principles
247 10 | Athenian. I mean this: when one thing changes another, and that
248 10 | changing element? How can a thing which is moved by another
249 10 | definition, we speak of the same thing, calling “even” the number
250 10 | dares to say this sort of thing must not be tolerated for
251 10 | able to cure some living thing as a whole—how will the
252 10 | general plan by which a thing of a certain nature found
253 10 | silenced by wolves.~Cleinias. A thing not to be spoken of.~Athenian.
254 11 | mine, or remove the least thing which belongs to me without
255 11 | with him, let him, if the thing is of little worth, and
256 11 | admits that he has this thing, but denies that the property
257 11 | there be an exchange of one thing for another, and the seller
258 11 | venture to say a ridiculous thing, the best men everywhere
259 11 | opponents is a difficult thing,” as is seen in diseases
260 11 | abstain from that sort of thing; and if he repeat the offence,
261 11 | which is by nature a true thing; and he who is wronged in
262 11 | ancestor is a wonderful thing, far higher than that of
263 11 | without anger about any thing or person; though as we
264 11 | would be an extraordinary thing if such an one, whether
265 12 | and robbery a shameless thing; and none of the sons of
266 12 | swear; for it is a dreadful thing to know, when many lawsuits
267 12 | this was possible, the next thing will be to have justice
268 12 | has been spent, to place a thing at last on an insecure foundation.~
269 12 | preservation of every living thing.~Cleinias. How is that?~
270 12 | to look steadily at one thing, and on this to fix all
271 12 | generally should look to one thing only; and this, as we admitted,
272 12 | general look to that one thing to which they ought to look;
273 12 | Ask me what is that one thing which call virtue, and then
274 12 | good friend, we will if the thing is in any degree possible.~
275 12 | do you mean, and what new thing is this?~Athenian. In the
276 12 | instruction, would be a vain thing; for the learners themselves
Lysis
Part
277 Text | said, this is a strange thing, that a free man should
278 Text | my heart upon a certain thing. All people have their fancies;
279 Text | or harmony with any other thing. Do you not agree?~Yes,
280 Text | a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature
281 Text | therefore, if there be such a thing as friendship or love at
282 Text | medicine a good and useful thing?~Yes.~But the human body,
283 Text | the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil,
284 Text | presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire
285 Text | the friend of any other thing after the destruction of
Menexenus
Part
286 Text | in many respects a noble thing. The dead man gets a fine
Meno
Part
287 Intro| by association out of one thing capable of recovering all.
288 Intro| affirmed that out of one thing all the rest may be recovered.
289 Intro| daily life the sight of one thing or person recalls another
290 Intro| than Plato’s ideas, of ‘thing in itself,’ to which, if
291 Text | answer?—Figure is the only thing which always follows colour.
292 Text | not, that there is such a thing as an end, or termination,
293 Text | am sure, would speak of a thing as ended or terminated—that
294 Text | SOCRATES: And there is such a thing as sight?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES:
295 Text | say of those who break a thing, but deliver virtue to me
296 Text | ever know that this is the thing which you did not know?~
297 Text | we should regard it as a thing to be taught, or as a gift
298 Text | into the qualities of a thing of which I do not as yet
299 Text | how can you know whether a thing is good or bad of which
300 Text | themselves; or is virtue a thing incapable of being communicated
301 Text | Anytus, that virtue is not a thing which can be taught?~ANYTUS:
302 Text | poet says the very same thing?~MENO: Where does he say
303 Text | sometimes saying that ‘this thing can be taught,’ and sometimes
304 Text | we have admitted that a thing cannot be taught of which
Parmenides
Part
305 Intro| world by saying the same thing in entirely different forms,
306 Intro| not that of the one, but a thing which becomes the same with
307 Intro| relation to every other thing is either the same with
308 Intro| over, you mean the same thing; and when you say that the
309 Intro| and as that in which a thing is is greater than the thing,
310 Intro| thing is is greater than the thing, the inference is that they
311 Intro| mean by this to say that a thing, which is not, in a certain
312 Text | Because one and the same thing will exist as a whole at
313 Text | No.~Or will each equal thing, if possessing some small
314 Text | be equal to some other thing by virtue of that portion
315 Text | involved if you make of each thing a single idea, parting it
316 Text | knowledge, if there is such a thing, must be a far more exact
317 Text | And if there be such a thing as participation in absolute
318 Text | knowledge know us, or any human thing; just as our authority does
319 Text | admit that every individual thing has its own determinate
320 Text | consequences in relation to the thing itself, and to any other
321 Text | as yet be in that other thing while still coming into
322 Text | one and the same, when a thing became the same, it would
323 Text | you mean?~I mean this:—A thing does not need to become
324 Text | become different from another thing which is already different;
325 Text | relation to every other thing, is either the same or other;
326 Text | Certainly.~But then, again, a thing which is in another place
327 Text | names: You give a name to a thing?~Yes.~And you may say the
328 Text | must it always be the same thing of which you speak, whether
329 Text | other’ a name given to a thing?~Certainly.~Whenever, then,
330 Text | other than the others, every thing will be like every thing,
331 Text | thing will be like every thing, for every thing is other
332 Text | like every thing, for every thing is other than every thing.~
333 Text | thing is other than every thing.~True.~Again, the like is
334 Text | is to touch, and no third thing can be between them.~True.~
335 Text | in no other way can one thing be in another.~True.~And
336 Text | to say, that even if one thing were older or younger than
337 Text | clear.~Inasmuch then, one thing does not become older or
338 Text | have and not have the same thing unless it receives and also
339 Text | How can it?~But that a thing which is previously at rest
340 Text | cannot be a time in which a thing can be at once neither in
341 Text | cannot.~And does this strange thing in which it is at the time
342 Text | changing really exist?~What thing?~The moment. For the moment
343 Text | natures, which would be one thing, and if they were both they
344 Text | And when we say that a thing is not, do we mean that
345 Text | Nor is there any existing thing which can be attributed
346 Text | be anything, or be this thing, or be related to or the
347 Text | expression, or name, or any other thing that is, have any concern
348 Text | intellect, every single thing appears to be infinite,
Phaedo
Part
349 Intro| really co-exist in the same thing or person. For example,
350 Intro| and thought, is a great thing: to have the reputation
351 Intro| or is there some ‘better thing reserved’ also for them?
352 Intro| to us, ‘and some better thing for the good than for the
353 Text | rubbing: How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how
354 Text | easily convinced by the first thing which he hears.~And certainly,
355 Text | of old, some far better thing for the good than for the
356 Text | believe that there is such a thing as death?~To be sure, replied
357 Text | Well, but there is another thing, Simmias: Is there or is
358 Text | conception of the essence of each thing which he considers?~Certainly.~
359 Text | coward, is surely a strange thing.~Very true.~And are not
360 Text | nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this
361 Text | life, if there be such a thing, is the birth of the dead
362 Text | mean? he said.~A simple thing enough, which I will illustrate
363 Text | that there truly is such a thing as living again, and that
364 Text | endless examples of the same thing.~Endless, indeed, replied
365 Text | affirm that there is such a thing as equality, not of one
366 Text | whenever from seeing one thing you conceived another, whether
367 Text | object, observes that the thing which he sees aims at being
368 Text | aims at being some other thing, but falls short of, and
369 Text | and cannot be, that other thing, but is inferior, he who
370 Text | obtain a notion of some other thing like or unlike which is
371 Text | not say that harmony is a thing invisible, incorporeal,
372 Text | misologists, he replied, no worse thing can happen to a man than
373 Text | melancholy, if there be such a thing as truth or certainty or
374 Text | although a fairer and diviner thing than the body, being as
375 Text | fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself, as
376 Text | them—herself a far diviner thing than any harmony?~Yes, Socrates,
377 Text | causes of things, and why a thing is and is created or destroyed
378 Text | suffering was best for that thing, and therefore a man had
379 Text | colour, or form, or any such thing is a source of beauty, I
380 Text | mind that nothing makes a thing beautiful but the presence
381 Text | agree with me:—There is a thing which you term heat, and
382 Text | you term heat, and another thing which you term cold?~Certainly.~
383 Text | assuredly not.~Heat is a thing different from fire, and
384 Text | true.~But is this the only thing which is called odd? Are
385 Text | fire and heat and any other thing.~Very true.~And the same
Phaedrus
Part
386 Intro| that there was a better thing than either to be short
387 Intro| well as the reason of the thing, lead us to the conclusion
388 Intro| interested, and that no such thing as a real or disinterested
389 Intro| infer from the reason of the thing, but there is no indication
390 Intro| professing to teach. The thing which is most necessary
391 Text | conversation of you and Lysias ‘a thing of higher import,’ as I
392 Text | well he could say the same thing in two or three ways.~PHAEDRUS:
393 Text | my way home, lest a worse thing be inflicted upon me by
394 Text | madness which was a noble thing; for the two words, mantike
395 Text | Now what is that sort of thing but a regular piece of authorship?~
396 Text | the art will make the same thing appear to the same persons
397 Text | silver, is not the same thing present in the minds of
398 Text | rules of art, must be a fine thing; and, at any rate, is not
399 Text | purge, and all that sort of thing; and knowing all this, as
400 Text | is they regard as an easy thing which their disciples may
401 Text | is a simple or multiform thing, and if simple, then to
402 Text | to consider not whether a thing is or is not true, but who
Philebus
Part
403 Intro| fundamental distinction between a thing and a person, while to Plato,
404 Text | how can one and the same thing be at the same time in one
405 Text | things, and the next best thing for him is that he should
406 Text | the good, but some third thing, which was different from
407 Text | every living creature or thing that was able to live such
408 Text | it will come to the same thing if we do so now;—when the
409 Text | SOCRATES: That there is no such thing as desire of the body.~PROTARCHUS:
410 Text | opinion. Is there such a thing as opinion?~PROTARCHUS:
411 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: And such a thing as pleasure?~PROTARCHUS:
412 Text | Certainly.~SOCRATES: And if the thing opined be erroneous, might
413 Text | not?—that there is such a thing as false, and also such
414 Text | as false, and also such a thing as true opinion?~PROTARCHUS:
415 Text | are correctly given to one thing and one nature; Socrates,
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416 Intro| different names of the same thing? Protagoras replies that
417 Text | shall I tell you a strange thing? I paid no attention to
418 Text | your soul and whether the thing to which you commit yourself
419 Text | and heard him say the same thing, and asked him, ‘In what
420 Text | spontaneously, but to be a thing which may be taught; and
421 Text | trust. But I marvel at one thing about which I should like
422 Text | names of one and the same thing: that is the doubt which
423 Text | justice is of the nature of a thing, would you not? That is
424 Text | Socrates, what about this thing which you were calling justice,
425 Text | now, is there also such a thing as holiness?’—we should
426 Text | also acknowledge to be a thing—should we not say so?~He
427 Text | And is this a sort of thing which is of the nature of
428 Text | everything is like every other thing; white is in a certain way
429 Text | opposites?~Yes.~And one thing is done by temperance, and
430 Text | temperance, and quite another thing by folly?~Yes.~And in opposite
431 Text | manure, which is a good thing when laid about the roots
432 Text | discussion? For discussion is one thing, and making an oration is
433 Text | which is the very same thing. And yet when he blames
434 Text | rejoins that the truly hard thing, Pittacus, is to become
435 Text | hard.’ Not, that the hard thing is to be truly good, as
436 Text | thought; but if a man~‘Sees a thing when he is alone,’~he goes
437 Text | holiness five names of the same thing? or has each of the names
438 Text | essence and corresponding thing having a peculiar function,
439 Text | not the names of the same thing, but that each of them had
440 Text | affirm virtue to be a good thing, of which good thing you
441 Text | good thing, of which good thing you assert yourself to be
442 Text | courage would be a base thing, for the men of whom we
443 Text | view:—that is the sort of thing which I desire in this speculation.
444 Text | is a noble and commanding thing, which cannot be overcome,
445 Text | conviction that some other thing would be better and is also
446 Text | said, there is a certain thing called fear or terror; and
447 Text | is a good and honourable thing?~The cowards, he replied.~
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448 1 | festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the
449 1 | gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel
450 1 | I say, that, setting one thing against another, of the
451 1 | asked him what due or proper thing is given by medicine, and
452 1 | And what due or proper thing is given by cookery, and
453 1 | are seeking for justice, a thing more precious than many
454 1 | utter them? The natural thing is, that the speaker should
455 1 | would say the same sort of thing of the physician? ~Yes. ~
456 1 | accomplished, by any other thing? ~I do not understand, he
457 1 | accomplished, by any other thing? ~I understand your meaning,
458 2 | quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him
459 2 | case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at
460 2 | cannot. ~Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship
461 2 | Yes, he said, that sort of thing is certainly very blamable;
462 2 | Certainly. ~And no good thing is hurtful? ~No, indeed. ~
463 2 | be effected either by the thing itself or by some other
464 2 | itself or by some other thing? ~Most certainly. ~And things
465 3 | not to hear that sort of thing. ~But any deeds of endurance
466 3 | one man can only do one thing well, and not many; and
467 3 | thunder, and all that sort of thing? ~Nay, he said, if madness
468 3 | is but a sleepy sort of thing, and rather perilous to
469 3 | higher and nobler sort of thing. Is not that still more
470 3 | head, and all that sort of thing, he replies at once that
471 3 | That is clearly the best thing both for the patients and
472 3 | be a foul and monstrous thing in a shepherd? ~Truly monstrous,
473 4 | of the one great thing-a thing, however, which I would
474 4 | replied; and the charming thing is that they deem him their
475 4 | not about any particular thing in the State, but about
476 4 | man should practise one thing only, the thing to which
477 4 | practise one thing only, the thing to which his nature was
478 4 | that one man should do one thing only. ~Further, we affirmed
479 4 | replied as follows: The same thing clearly cannot act or be
480 4 | in relation to the same thing at the same time, in contrary
481 4 | example, I said, can the same thing be at rest and in motion
482 4 | to believe that the same thing at the same time, in the
483 4 | in relation to the same thing, can act or be acted upon
484 4 | is drawing to himself the thing which he wishes to possess:
485 4 | we were saying, the same thing cannot at the same time
486 4 | be opposed, is a sort of thing which I believe that you
487 5 | a dangerous and slippery thing; and the danger is not that
488 5 | and the most ridiculous thing of all will be the sight
489 5 | that one man will acquire a thing easily, another with difficulty;
490 5 | licentiousness is an unholy thing which the rulers will forbid. ~
491 5 | Then clearly the next thing will be to make matrimony
492 5 | hand over all this sort of thing to the nurses and attendants. ~
493 5 | an unholy and unrighteous thing; the child of which he is
494 5 | the same way to the same thing? ~Quite true. ~Or that again
495 5 | common interest in the same thing which they will alike call "
496 5 | also a very strengthening thing. ~Most true, he said. ~Then
497 5 | if possible, be of one thing only, or, if not, of two;
498 5 | public is indeed a hard thing. ~Socrates, what do you
499 5 | an opinion about some one thing? ~Yes. ~And not-being is
500 5 | And not-being is not one thing, but, properly speaking,