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The Apology
Part
1 Intro| death is a long sleep, the best of sleeps, or a journey
2 Text | determined by you as is best for you and me.~...~There
Charmides
Part
3 Ded | fifty years have been the best of friends to me these volumes
4 Ded | be read as he is at his best, I have thought that the
5 PreS | weight, precision; or the best part of him will be lost
6 PreS | work. Equability of tone is best attained by the exclusive
7 PreS | modern philosophy, it seems best that we should at first
8 Text | the way which you think best.~I think, I said, that I
9 Text | good?~Yes.~But which is best when you are at the writing-master’
10 Text | quickness, is noblest and best?~Yes, certainly.~And is
11 Text | quietness?~True.~And is it not best to understand what is said,
12 Text | which is admitted to be the best of all things would never
Cratylus
Part
13 Intro| dialogue may be ranked with the best of the Platonic writings,
14 Intro| discoveries. And yet some of his best remarks, as for example
15 Intro| which is declared on the best authority, viz. his own,
16 Intro| moderation. ‘I will do my best.’ But do not be too much
17 Intro| and left no sign. But the best conception that we can form
18 Intro| not a man be able to judge best from a point of view in
19 Intro| the study. Even to him the best grammar is the shortest
20 Intro| laws of language can be best discerned in the great crises
21 Intro| the form which is already best adapted to his purpose.
22 Intro| better distributed. The best modern languages, for example
23 Intro| free from tautology as the best modern writings. The speech
24 Text | whatever is the shuttle best adapted to each kind of
25 Text | SOCRATES: And who will be best able to direct the legislator
26 Text | are true. And this is the best of all principles; and the
27 Text | principles; and the next best is to say, as in prayers,
28 Text | me hear, and I will do my best to assist you.~SOCRATES:
29 Text | right.’ This will be the best contrivance, or perhaps
30 Text | Fear not; I will do my best.~SOCRATES: In the first
31 Text | given us by names. Is it the best sort of information? or
32 Text | be both the only and the best sort of information about
33 Text | as those which have the best. And any one I believe who
Critias
Part
34 Text | is the most perfect and best. And now having offered
35 Text | the left. The land was the best in the world, and was therefore
36 Text | nature, and had a soil the best in the world, and abundance
37 Text | which was the largest and best, and made him king over
Crito
Part
38 Text | appears to me to be the best; and now that this chance
39 Text | position, and try how you can best answer me.~CRITO: I will.~
40 Text | institutions and laws being the best things among men? Would
41 Text | that you have done your best to destroy us. Listen, then,
Euthydemus
Part
42 Intro| short time and in the very best manner. Socrates, who is
43 Text | the men from whom he will best learn it?~Certainly, Socrates,
44 Text | can be taught, he said.~Best of men, I said, I am delighted
45 Text | Socrates, he said; I will do my best.~I was pleased at hearing
46 Text | that you could teach virtue best of all men, to any one who
47 Text | yours?~I suppose that I had best answer you, Dionysodorus,
48 Text | the exhibition would be best of all, if the discussion
49 Text | as Pindar says, is the ‘best of all things,’ is also
Euthyphro
Part
50 Text | your father?~EUTHYPHRO: The best of Euthyphro, and that which
51 Text | not men regard Zeus as the best and most righteous of the
52 Text | men living the one who is best instructed in religion.~
The First Alcibiades
Part
53 Intro| of Socrates, who, for the best of purposes, lies in wait
54 Text | friends and kinsmen of the best sort, who can assist you
55 Text | those against whom it is best to wrestle?~ALCIBIADES:
56 Text | SOCRATES: And as much as is best?~ALCIBIADES: Certainly.~
57 Text | And at such times as are best?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
58 Text | excellence or art of the best in wrestling, and of an
59 Text | these things and are not the best teachers of them, inasmuch
60 Text | think life and courage the best, and death and cowardice
61 Text | you only aim at being the best pilot on board? Would you
62 Text | woman-nurse, but by the best of the royal eunuchs, who
63 Text | chosen men, reputed to be the best among the Persians of a
64 Text | you must try to look your best.~ALCIBIADES: I will.~SOCRATES:
Gorgias
Part
65 Intro| bad men do what they think best, but not what they desire,
66 Intro| than seem; for the next best thing to a man’s being just
67 Intro| master Socrates. ‘One of the best of men, and a proficient
68 Intro| and a proficient in the best and noblest of experimental
69 Intro| rhetoric uses relate to the best and greatest of human things.’
70 Intro| me, Gorgias, what are the best? ‘Health first, beauty next,
71 Intro| only do what they think best, and never what they desire;
72 Intro| fondest of that in which he is best.’ Philosophy is graceful
73 Intro| speaking with a view to what is best; their way is to humour
74 Intro| think only how you can live best, leaving all besides to
75 Intro| shall be able to illustrate best by parallel notions, which,
76 Intro| persuasion, of all arts the best, for to it all things submit,
77 Intro| who appears to have the best of the argument; or to repeat
78 Intro| considered in what way ‘we can best spend the appointed time,
79 Intro| order all things for the best (compare Phaedo), but he
80 Intro| we are very far from the best imaginable world at present,
81 Text | different arts, and the best persons in the best arts.
82 Text | the best persons in the best arts. And our friend Gorgias
83 Text | friend Gorgias is one of the best, and the art in which he
84 Text | longer; but I will do my best to make them as short as
85 Text | greatest, Socrates, and the best of human things.~SOCRATES:
86 Text | which are the greatest and best of human things? I dare
87 Text | to know what food is the best for the body; and if the
88 Text | children, as to which of them best understands the goodness
89 Text | without any thought of the best. An art I do not call it,
90 Text | but only what they think best.~POLUS: And is not that
91 Text | fool does what he thinks best, this is a good, and would
92 Text | rhetoricians who do what they think best in states, and the tyrants,
93 Text | that they do as they think best?~SOCRATES: And I say so
94 Text | they do what they think best?~SOCRATES: Aye.~POLUS: That,
95 Text | be said to do what seems best to him?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
96 Text | mere doing as you think best is great power?~POLUS: Certainly
97 Text | SOCRATES: Which, then, is the best of these three?~POLUS: Will
98 Text | SOCRATES: And justice, if the best, gives the greatest pleasure
99 Text | fellows, of whom we take the best and strongest from their
100 Text | test gold, and the very best possible one to which I
101 Text | weakest of all, he being the best of all will have the smallest
102 Text | go about clothed in the best and finest of them?~CALLICLES:
103 Text | Then the skilfullest and best in making shoes ought to
104 Text | suppose that I must make the best of a bad business, as they
105 Text | always to aim at what is best, and do they seek to improve
106 Text | and strives to say what is best, whether welcome or unwelcome,
107 Text | says with a view to the best, speak with a reference
108 Text | when given to them in the best way comes to them not by
109 Text | considers in what way he can best spend his appointed term;—
110 Text | is, how a man may become best himself, and best govern
111 Text | become best himself, and best govern his family and state,
112 Text | and that I look to what is best and not to what is most
113 Text | acknowledged by us to be the best sort of defence. And if
114 Text | chastised, and that the next best thing to a man being just
115 Text | revealed to us that the best way of life is to practise
Ion
Part
116 Text | especially of Homer, who is the best and most divine of them;
117 Text | worst of poets he sang the best of songs? Am I not right,
118 Text | obliged to give my very best attention to them; for if
119 Text | No; the pilot will know best.~SOCRATES: Or will the rhapsode
120 Text | SOCRATES: And you are the best of Hellenic rhapsodes?~ION:
121 Text | rhapsodes?~ION: Far the best, Socrates.~SOCRATES: And
122 Text | SOCRATES: And are you the best general, Ion?~ION: To be
123 Text | reason why you, who are the best of generals as well as the
124 Text | generals as well as the best of rhapsodes in all Hellas,
Laches
Part
125 Intro| educating their sons in the best manner. Their own education,
126 Text | to consider, who was the best trainer. Should we not select
127 Text | practised the art, and had the best teachers?~MELESIAS: I think
128 Text | which we are advising may be best and most easily attained.
129 Text | this gift of sight may be best and most easily attained;
130 Text | or the ears, or about the best mode of giving sight and
131 Text | advise any one about the best mode of attaining something
132 Text | these things will be for the best, can no more be decided
133 Text | is considered to be the best puller to pieces of words
134 Text | of what is likely to be best and what will be best in
135 Text | be best and what will be best in the future; but that
136 Text | of us should seek out the best teacher whom he can find,
Laws
Book
137 1 | and defeat—the first and best of victories, the lowest
138 1 | last would be by far the best sort of judge and legislator.~
139 1 | laws for the sake of the best?~Cleinias. To be sure.~Athenian.
140 1 | external or civil, is not the best, and the need of either
141 1 | another, and good will, are best. Nor is the victory of the
142 1 | that the body was in the best state when sick and purged
143 1 | reasonably good laws, one of the best of them will be the law
144 1 | against your laws until to the best of my ability I have examined
145 1 | appear to me to be the best in the world; for that which
146 1 | and Scythians.~Megillus. O best of men, we have only to
147 1 | Locrians, who appear to be the best–governed people in their
148 1 | associations to be framed in the best way possible in states,
149 1 | and fairest thing that the best of men can ever have, and
150 1 | cooperate with the lead of the best, which is law. For inasmuch
151 2 | that which delights the best and best educated, and especially
152 2 | which delights the best and best educated, and especially
153 2 | experience of the eldest and best has agreed to be truly right.
154 2 | all these things are the best of possessions, to the unjust
155 2 | the happiest is also the best;—we shall affirm this to
156 2 | Where, then, will that best part of our city which,
157 2 | these, and want to have the best.~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
158 2 | accompanying charm, either the best thing in them is this very
159 2 | And those who seek for the best kind of song and music ought
160 2 | that they may choose the best, and that which is nearest
161 2 | which is nearest to the best; for otherwise they will
162 2 | been accomplished to the best of our ability, and let
163 3 | man be able to judge of it best from a point of view in
164 3 | surely likes his own laws best, and the laws of others
165 3 | choose those which they think best. These persons will themselves
166 3 | for we will give them our best attention; and that is the
167 3 | the way in which a freeman best shows his approval or disapproval.~
168 3 | Athenian. And that is the best answer; for whichever alternative
169 3 | expression of opinion, but is best passed over in silence.~
170 3 | seeing how a state might be best administered, and how an
171 3 | how an individual might best order his own life. And
172 4 | habits, least of all to the best part of the citizens. You
173 4 | but the continuance of the best life, while we live; and
174 4 | we acknowledge to be the best for the settlement and legislation
175 4 | of states.~Cleinias. The best by far.~Athenian. And now
176 4 | state is to acquire in the best manner and in the shortest
177 4 | prosperous; He has done second best for a state in which there
178 4 | two such rulers, and third best for a state in which there
179 4 | say, I suppose, that the best government is produced from
180 4 | to say that the change is best made out of a tyranny; and
181 4 | and temperance, then the best laws and the best constitution
182 4 | then the best laws and the best constitution come into being;
183 4 | rule and life, of which the best–ordered of existing states
184 4 | thought by them to be the best way of expressing the natural
185 4 | service, is the noblest and best of all things, and also
186 4 | most moderate funeral is best, neither exceeding the customary
187 4 | very foolish question; the best form, and not the shortest,
188 5 | necessaries of life, is the best and most harmonious of all,
189 5 | devoid of reverence. The best way of training the young
190 5 | citizens, he is by far the best, who rather than the Olympic
191 5 | reputed to have obeyed them best through life. In his relations
192 5 | caution in him, will do his best to pass through life without
193 5 | man he must be who would best pass through life in respect
194 5 | and the pleasant and the best and noblest, a man may live
195 5 | and some of them, and the best and most difficult of them,
196 5 | can complete his work. The best kind of purification is
197 5 | manner which, if not the best, is the second best. Perhaps
198 5 | the best, is the second best. Perhaps also some one may
199 5 | forms of government, the best, the second and the third
200 5 | the second and the third best, which we may just mention,
201 5 | his children who is his best beloved, and one only, to
202 5 | in the following terms:—Best of men, cease not to honour
203 5 | That these principles are best, any one may see who compares
204 5 | desires to have the city the best and happiest possible. But
205 6 | first created by them in the best and surest manner. Above
206 6 | the new citizens may be best managed under present circumstances;
207 6 | be inferior men, but the best possible. For as the proverb
208 6 | they can, the eldest and best of the colonists, to the
209 6 | and the new city do the best she can for her own preservation
210 6 | citizens is in every way best; him the legislator shall
211 6 | severally think will be the best superintendent of education.
212 6 | neighbours and friends who know best the questions at issue.
213 6 | seems to them to be the best, and whom they deem likely
214 6 | the ensuing year in the best and holiest manner. And
215 6 | any rate, we must do our best.~Cleinias. Of course.~Athenian.
216 6 | that we should have the best and most attached slaves
217 6 | impiety and injustice, will best sow the seeds of virtue
218 6 | called pleasantest to the best, using the Muses and the
219 6 | produce for the state the best and fairest specimens of
220 7 | grow up from infancy in the best and straightest manner?~
221 7 | through the voyage of life best. Now human affairs are hardly
222 7 | truly considered, is the best of him; wherefore also every
223 7 | should choose what seems best, you spoke very properly,
224 7 | we can attain the second–best form of polity, we shall
225 7 | answer should be as follows:—Best of strangers, we will say
226 7 | and our tragedy is the best and noblest; for our whole
227 7 | state is an imitation of the best and noblest life, which
228 7 | we not say to them:—O ye best of Hellenes, is not this
229 7 | person who serves the laws best and obeys them most, but
230 7 | laborious spirit. Thus, only the best kind of hunting is allowed
231 8 | him as being always the best friend of man. For the connection
232 8 | him who seems to be the best, and blaming him who is
233 8 | prizes given to him who best fulfils the ordinances of
234 8 | outright what he thinks best for the city and citizens—
235 8 | beloved youth to be the best possible; and the other
236 8 | sell. And how will they be best distributed? In the first
237 9 | government, and ascertain what is best and what is most needful,
238 9 | very moment choose what is best, or, if we prefer, what
239 9 | far the noblest and the best? and should not other writings
240 9 | when the opinion of the best, in whatever part of human
241 9 | obeys this rule, and is best for the whole life of man,
242 9 | at true opinion about the best. The latter being subdivided
243 9 | partly involuntary. The best and truest view is to regard
244 9 | as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide,
245 9 | is able to know what is best for human society; or knowing,
246 9 | and willing to do what is best. In the first place, there
247 9 | order, which are second best. These look at things as
248 9 | we are legislating to be best able to judge, and therefore
249 10 | who are esteemed to be the best of poets, and orators, and
250 10 | demonstration of this would be the best and noblest prelude of all
251 10 | plain, we must say that the best soul takes care of the world
252 10 | things round, either the best soul or the contrary must
253 10 | affairs: To him we say—O thou best of men, in believing that
254 10 | And, O most excellent and best of men, do I understand
255 10 | the most careful and the best of owners to neglect us.—
256 10 | are ignorant how what is best for you happens to you and
257 10 | might in the easiest and best manner procure the victory
258 10 | dogs or shepherds, or the best and most perfect masters;
259 10 | noblest interests, and are the best of guardians, are inferior
260 11 | a ridiculous thing, the best men everywhere to keep taverns
261 11 | some fate or necessity, the best women were compelled to
262 11 | way that is not for the best, I will not, if I can help,
263 11 | whole, considering what is best both for the state and for
264 11 | together do what they think best in these matters; if there
265 11 | Megillus and Cleinias, in the best and fairest manner that
266 12 | endeavour to divide to the best of our power the greater
267 12 | he deems in every way the best, and who is not less than
268 12 | and to Apollo her three best men as first–fruits, to
269 12 | many as possible, and the best and fairest that can be
270 12 | consideration they deem the best, whether they prefer to
Lysis
Part
271 Text | having lost this fairest and best of blessings; and therefore
272 Text | supposes that we know what is best?~That is true.~And everything
273 Text | have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world:
274 Text | go further, and say the best horse or dog. Yea, by the
Menexenus
Part
275 Intro| described by Thucydides as the best pleader of his day, the
276 Text | speakers, and one who was the best among all the Hellenes—Pericles,
277 Text | human food, which is the best and noblest sustenance for
278 Text | aristocracy or government of the best which has the approval of
279 Text | his life ordered for the best. He is the temperate and
280 Text | and they will please us best if they bear their loss
Meno
Part
281 Intro| and clearest, and we shall best illustrate their nature
282 Text | SOCRATES: Then I must do my best, for there is a prize to
283 Text | yours, I will do my very best; but I am afraid that I
284 Text | you admit to be among the best men of the past. Let us
285 Text | were on a level with the best—and had he no wish to make
286 Text | wrestling, and they were the best wrestlers in Athens: one
Parmenides
Part
287 Intro| point of style is one of the best of the Platonic writings;
288 Intro| in terms is sometimes the best expression of a truth higher
289 Intro| Yet we accept them as the best expression which we have
290 Intro| therefore lose faith in what is best and highest in ourselves
Phaedo
Part
291 Intro| then let a man take the best of human notions, and upon
292 Intro| dispose them all for the best. The new teacher will show
293 Intro| show me this ‘order of the best’ in man and nature. How
294 Intro| Atlas is the power of the best. But this ‘best’ is still
295 Intro| power of the best. But this ‘best’ is still undiscovered;
296 Intro| hope to attain the second best.~Now there is a danger in
297 Intro| appears to him to be the best, until at last he arrives
298 Intro| last thoughts even of the best men depend chiefly on the
299 Intro| them as they were at their best and brightest, humbly fulfilling
300 Intro| in the Euthydemus), the best friend of Socrates, who
301 Intro| that all things are for the best, and that there is one mind
302 Intro| But this ‘power of the best’ he is unable to explain;
303 Intro| intelligence, or of the best, than of Atlas, or mechanical
304 Text | and is the noblest and best of music. The dream was
305 Text | by the gods who are the best of rulers, is not reasonable;
306 Text | against yourself.~I will do my best, replied Socrates. But you
307 Text | allow that they are the best of them?~Certainly, he replied.~
308 Text | all?~Yes.~And thought is best when the mind is gathered
309 Text | would have him take the best and most irrefragable of
310 Text | struggle manfully and do our best to gain health of mind—you
311 Text | will dispose all for the best, and put each particular
312 Text | put each particular in the best place; and I argued that
313 Text | or doing or suffering was best for that thing, and therefore
314 Text | had only to consider the best for himself and others,
315 Text | teach me the nature of the best and show that this was best;
316 Text | best and show that this was best; and if he said that the
317 Text | that this position was the best, and I should be satisfied
318 Text | all of them were for the best. For I could not imagine
319 Text | are, except that this was best; and I thought that when
320 Text | to explain to me what was best for each and what was good
321 Text | their own idea of what was best, and if I had not chosen
322 Text | not from the choice of the best, is a very careless and
323 Text | are arranges them for the best never enters into their
324 Text | else, the nature of the best, I will exhibit to you,
325 Text | have found to be the second best mode of enquiring into the
326 Text | found a resting-place in the best of the higher; but you would
327 Text | no avail.~We will do our best, said Crito: And in what
328 Text | usual, and what you think best.~When he had spoken these
329 Text | noblest and gentlest and best of all who ever came to
330 Text | the wisest and justest and best.~ >
Phaedrus
Part
331 Intro| exhibit Him as the fairest and best of all’ (Symp.) without
332 Intro| youth are trained in the best literatures, and in the
333 Intro| literatures, and in the best parts of them, their minds
334 Text | other; verily therefore my best plan is to speak as I best
335 Text | best plan is to speak as I best can.~SOCRATES: A very true
336 Text | posture in which you can read best. Begin.~PHAEDRUS: Listen.
337 Text | lovers; and if you choose the best of the lovers, you will
338 Text | your doors, and will be the best pleased, and the most grateful,
339 Text | prayer, but to those who are best able to reward you; nor
340 Text | must just speak ‘as you best can.’ Do not let us exchange ‘
341 Text | which aspires after the best; and these two are sometimes
342 Text | of reason leads us to the best, the conquering principle
343 Text | beloved of his dearest and best and holiest possessions,
344 Text | cross the river and make the best of my way home, lest a worse
345 Text | that which follows God best and is likest to him lifts
346 Text | was also said to be the best, we spoke of the affection
347 Text | truth would always know best how to discover the resemblances
348 Text | an art is not always the best judge of the utility or
349 Text | who thinks that even the best of writings are but a reminiscence
Philebus
Part
350 Intro| regulates the infinite is best expressed to us by the word ‘
351 Intro| the nature of anything is best known from the examination
352 Intro| nature of pleasure will be best understood from an examination
353 Intro| or in declaring that the best of men, if he be in pain,
354 Intro| always be the highest or best motive of them (why I do
355 Intro| According to Mr. Mill, he would best carry out the principle
356 Intro| notion which furnishes the best explanation or gives the
357 Intro| will of God because it is best, whether rewarded or unrewarded.
358 Intro| good of Plato, which may be best expressed to us under the
359 Intro| action differ, and some are best explained upon one principle
360 Intro| is obedience to law: the best human government is a rational
361 Intro| rational despotism, and the best idea which we can form of
362 Intro| enjoyment of that which is best and fairest in this world
363 Text | way, and we will do our best to follow, for the enquiry
364 Text | all things, and the next best thing for him is that he
365 Text | determining what is the best of human goods. For when
366 Text | dispute about which were the best, and we playfully threatened
367 Text | my fine fellow, to the best of my ability.~PROTARCHUS:
368 Text | you please to give me your best attention?~PROTARCHUS: Proceed;
369 Text | pain, even though he be the best of men; and again, that
370 Text | as he says, is by far the best of them all, for to it all
371 Text | which was the greatest or best or usefullest of arts or
372 Text | And now let us give our best attention and consider well,
Protagoras
Part
373 Intro| Because the wisest and best Athenian citizens do not
374 Intro| the doubt of Socrates the best answer is the fact, that
375 Intro| that many who know what is best, act contrary to their knowledge
376 Intro| considers openness to be the best policy, and particularly
377 Intro| extent Protagoras has the best of the argument and represents
378 Text | order his own house in the best manner, and he will be able
379 Text | to speak and act for the best in the affairs of the state.~
380 Text | but of individuals; the best and wisest of our citizens
381 Text | have taught them to the best of their ability,—but who
382 Text | that the conclusion will be best proven if there be no ‘if.’~
383 Text | again that~‘They are the best for the longest time whom
384 Text | he said; I should say the best of all things, if I am in
385 Text | know the things which are best, and not to do them when
386 Text | do not always do what is best. When we say to them: Friends,
The Republic
Book
387 1 | I think so. ~And who is best able to do good to his friends
388 1 | point: Is not he who can best strike a blow in a boxing
389 1 | in any kind of fighting best able to ward off a blow? ~
390 1 | escaping from a disease is best able to create one? ~True. ~
391 1 | one? ~True. ~And he is the best guard of a camp who is best
392 1 | best guard of a camp who is best able to steal a march upon
393 1 | has only to provide the best for them, since the perfection
394 1 | this payment which to the best men is the great inducement
395 1 | and I will add that the best and most perfectly unjust
396 2 | compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice
397 2 | power to be unjust will best appear if we imagine something
398 2 | the former. Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought
399 2 | were two statues. ~I do my best, he said. And now that we
400 2 | walk if they would make the best of life? Probably the youth
401 2 | satisfied that justice is best, still he is not angry with
402 2 | defence. And therefore I had best give such help as I can. ~
403 2 | must be brave and do our best. ~We must. ~Is not the noble
404 2 | things which are at their best are also least liable to
405 2 | supposed, the fairest and best that is conceivable, every
406 3 | the dithyramb affords the best example; and the combination
407 3 | a State, and are not the best those who have treated the
408 3 | and bad? and are not the best judges in like manner those
409 3 | themselves. ~That is clearly the best thing both for the patients
410 3 | fairest proportions, and best attempers them to the soul,
411 3 | Clearly. ~And that the best of these must rule. ~That
412 3 | clear. ~Now, are not the best husbandmen those who are
413 3 | And as we are to have the best of guardians for our city,
414 3 | must inquire who are the best guardians of their own conviction
415 3 | select a spot whence they can best suppress insurrection, if
416 3 | good education furnish the best safeguard? ~But they are
417 4 | do their own work in the best way. And thus the whole
418 4 | what, I said, will be the best limit for our rulers to
419 4 | says. ~That will be the best way of settling them. ~Also,
420 4 | knowledge which counsels for the best about wooden implements? ~
421 4 | considers how a State can best deal with itself and with
422 4 | in a few, and those the best born and best educated. ~
423 4 | those the best born and best educated. ~Very true. These
424 4 | to which his nature was best adapted; now justice is
425 4 | he said, that will be the best way. ~Well, I said, would
426 4 | together will they not be the best defenders of the whole soul
427 5 | practicable, would be for the best, is also doubtful. Hence
428 5 | share? That will be the best way of commencing the inquiry,
429 5 | That will be much the best way. ~Shall we take the
430 5 | that our guardians are the best of our citizens? ~By far
431 5 | our citizens? ~By far the best. ~And will not their wives
432 5 | will not their wives be the best women? ~Yes, by far the
433 5 | women? ~Yes, by far the best. ~And can there be anything
434 5 | exercising their bodies from the best of motives, in his laughter
435 5 | is, and ever will be, the best of sayings, "that the useful
436 5 | take care to breed from the best only? ~From the best. ~And
437 5 | the best only? ~From the best. ~And do you take the oldest
438 5 | already laid down that the best of either sex should be
439 5 | should be united with the best as often, and the inferior
440 5 | judgment, is of all lives the best, but, infatuated by some
441 5 | doing they will do what is best, and will not violate, but
442 5 | auxiliary, you must do your best to show the unbelievers
443 6 | Whichever of the two are best able to guard the laws and
444 6 | who may be considered the best of them are made useless
445 6 | the manner in which the best men are treated in their
446 6 | him, that, in deeming the best votaries of philosophy to
447 6 | are arrant rogues, and the best are useless; in which opinion
448 6 | describing of the natures best adapted to the best of all
449 6 | natures best adapted to the best of all pursuits; they are
450 6 | possible, is assuredly for the best. ~We have. ~And now we say
451 6 | enacted, would be for the best, but also that the enactment
452 6 | great as this ought the best men in our State, to whom
453 6 | opinions are bad, and the best of them blind? You would
454 6 | however slight. ~I will do my best, I said; but I should think
455 7 | he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of
456 7 | and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions
457 7 | and of the brightest and best of being, or, in other words,
458 7 | State will be to compel the best minds to attain that knowledge
459 7 | to govern is always the best and most quietly governed,
460 7 | and by whom the State is best administered, and who at
461 7 | of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained,
462 7 | contemplation of that which is best in existence, with which
463 7 | here, though I would do my best, and you should behold not
464 7 | Yes, that will be the best way. And I think, Socrates,
465 8 | also to be common, and the best philosophers and the bravest
466 8 | agreed as to who was the best and who was the worst of
467 8 | to consider whether the best was not also the happiest,
468 8 | aristocracy (the government of the best). Clearly, all political
469 8 | fortunate. And though only the best of them will be appointed
470 8 | virtue, having lost his best guardian. ~Who was that?
471 8 | One which is the next best, and has the advantage of
472 8 | the gods, and are their best guardians and sentinels. ~
473 8 | before the people as they best can? ~What else can they
474 8 | will be able to trust them best of all. ~What a blessed
475 9 | said, for one is the very best and the other is the very
476 9 | speaking generally, and the best of them are miserably degraded
477 9 | meanness and vulgarity-the best elements in him are enslaved;
478 9 | the son of Ariston (the best) has decided that the best
479 9 | best) has decided that the best and justest is also the
480 9 | to them, if that which is best for each one is also most
481 9 | him? ~Yes, certainly; the best is the most natural. ~And
482 9 | and enjoy severally the best and truest pleasures of
483 9 | a rule like that of the best, we say that he ought to
484 9 | to be the servant of the best, in whom the Divine rules;
485 10 | patient under suffering is best, and that we should not
486 10 | the way which reason deems best; not, like children who
487 10 | say. ~Hear and judge: The best of us, as I conceive, when
488 10 | and smiting his breast-the best of us, you know, delight
489 10 | consent have ever been deemed best, but pleasure and pain will
490 10 | would have her appear at her best and truest; but so long
491 10 | has been shown to be the best for the soul in her own
492 10 | them all things at their best, excepting only such evil
493 10 | and know that this is the best choice both in life and
The Second Alcibiades
Part
494 Pre | is very un-Platonic. The best passage is probably that
495 Text | Perhaps, if you give me your best attention, ‘two of us’ looking
496 Text | attending, Socrates, to the best of my power.~SOCRATES: We
497 Text | they who seem to have fared best, have not only gone through
498 Text | of praying for what was best: to call down evils seems
499 Text | senses and knew what was best for him to do, would ever
500 Text | appear, which is of the best and does not know what is