(...) The Second Alcibiades
    Part
501 Text |           and does not know what is best?~ALCIBIADES: So I think,
502 Text |          man who is ignorant of the best, having occasionally the
503 Text |          whim that what is worst is best?~ALCIBIADES: No.)~SOCRATES:—
504 Text |             by the knowledge of the best, will more often than not
505 Text |           time the knowledge of the best course of action:—and the
506 Text |           course of action:—and the best and the useful are surely
507 Text |          call him who knows what is best according to that art? Do
508 Text |            of one who knows what is best in riding as a good rider?~
509 Text |           had this knowledge of the best, and there was no one who
510 Text |               I mean that which was best in any art, while he was
511 Text |       entirely ignorant of what was best for himself and for the
512 Text |             many fail to obtain the best because they trust to opinion
513 Text |           also the knowledge of the best?~ALCIBIADES: I do now, if
514 Text |         having the knowledge of the best, so much the more is she
515 Text |        possess the knowledge of the best, but is under some other
516 Text |             think you, would be the best way to take advantage of


The Seventh Letter
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517 Text |            free and governed by the best laws. So it is no matter
518 Text |         longing for the noblest and best life. And if it should produce
519 Text |          way of life other than the best. What he said, though perhaps
520 Text |             is not possible for the best constitution to be introduced
521 Text |            and it is I who have the best right to be angered with
522 Text |          have ascertained to be the best for the purpose. These must
523 Text |     Syracuse. It is indeed a second best course. The first and best
524 Text |          best course. The first and best was that scheme of welfare
525 Text |             words, it would be done best by me, and that, if they
526 Text |          framing of the justest and best laws, reaching these ends


The Sophist
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527 Intro|        Whatever is, if not the very best—and what is the best, who
528 Intro|           very best—and what is the best, who can tell?—is, at any
529 Intro|           as these will furnish the best preparation and give the
530 Intro|          forms of thought which are best adapted for the expression
531 Text |   THEAETETUS: That is certainly the best and wisest state of mind.~
532 Text |        carry on the argument in the best way, and that you should
533 Text |          THEAETETUS: I will, to the best of my power.~STRANGER: ‘
534 Text |           sort of opinion, do their best to show that this opinion


The Statesman
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535 Intro|          flock. I think that we can best distinguish him by having
536 Intro|          trader or merchant, who at best can only lay claim to economical
537 Intro|     business of a king; and yet the best thing of all is, not that
538 Intro|          law, which, though not the best thing possible, is best
539 Intro|             best thing possible, is best for the imperfect condition
540 Intro|            although this is not the best thing of all, but only the
541 Intro|            all, but only the second best. And whoever, having skill,
542 Intro|       number of them, including the best, will be seven. Under monarchy
543 Intro|            government of one is the best and the worst—the government
544 Intro|         good of them all, being the best of all lawless governments,
545 Intro|            wanting. The noblest and best of all webs or states is
546 Intro|           better than none. And the best thing which they can do (
547 Intro|              though only the second best in reality), is to reduce
548 Intro|              he regards this as the best and speediest way of reforming
549 Intro|           permanent.~b. Whether the best form of the ideal is a person
550 Intro|           ten thousand if he be the best.’ If, however, we mean by
551 Intro|        ancient and modern times the best balanced form of government
552 Intro|             has been held to be the best; and yet it should not be
553 Intro|         their behest. When with the best intentions the benevolent
554 Intro|  characterized by Thucydides as the best government of Athens which
555 Intro|        compelled to do, not what is best, but what is possible.~d.
556 Intro|         which is supposed to be the best way of taking care of them.
557 Intro|           laissez-faire’ is not the best but only the second best.
558 Intro|            best but only the second best. What the best is, Plato
559 Intro|           the second best. What the best is, Plato does not attempt
560 Intro|          the pattern of that second best form of government, which,
561 Text |      plainer.~STRANGER: O Socrates, best of men, you are imposing
562 Text |     completion of the argument will best show what you are so anxious
563 Text |              STRANGER: Will not the best and easiest way of bringing
564 Text |     business of a king, and yet the best thing of all is not that
565 Text |    therefore cannot enforce what is best. The differences of men
566 Text |          approved, although not the best thing in the world.~YOUNG
567 Text |         when regarded as the second best thing, if you set aside
568 Text |           of what I call the second best?~YOUNG SOCRATES: By all
569 Text |            danger of this, the next best thing in legislating is
570 Text |             he can only act for the best by violating the laws, while
571 Text |       prescriptions or laws, is the best of all the six, and when
572 Text |         lawful governments, and the best of all lawless ones. If
573 Text |            form in which to live is best; if they are well ordered,
574 Text |              the first form, is the best, with the exception of the
575 Text |          helm of States:—How can we best clear away all these, leaving
576 Text |       without due regard to what is best for the procreation of children.~
577 Text |           perfected the noblest and best of all the webs which political


The Symposium
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578 Intro|             had heard them from the best authority. Aristodemus,
579 Intro|          fairest and blessedest and best of the gods, and also the
580 Intro|     subjects; he is the fairest and best himself, and the cause of
581 Intro|        cause of what is fairest and best in others; he makes men
582 Intro|           Essays, 8:—‘Certainly the best works and of greatest merit
583 Intro|          attested to us by the very best authority. The madman Apollodorus,
584 Intro|           has the corruption of the best been sometimes thought to
585 Text |           Love. Let him give us the best which he can; and Phaedrus,
586 Text |              they would be the very best governors of their own city,
587 Text |           same: for he has done his best to show that he would give
588 Text |        satisfy them or not; and the best physician is he who is able
589 Text |           of all the gods he is the best friend of men, the helper
590 Text |             they are themselves the best of boys and youths, because
591 Text |         happy. And if this would be best of all, the best in the
592 Text |           would be best of all, the best in the next degree and under
593 Text |       because he is the fairest and best? And he is the fairest:
594 Text |         ability I must try to do my best. In the first place he is
595 Text |          that he is the fairest and best in himself, and the cause
596 Text |        cause of what is fairest and best in all other things. And
597 Text |             of gods and men, leader best and brightest: in whose
598 Text |           speaker was to choose the best and set them forth in the
599 Text |           and set them forth in the best manner. And I felt quite
600 Text |          him appear the fairest and best of all to those who know
601 Text |             manner which he thought best. Then, he added, let me
602 Text |         please to give me your very best attention:~‘He who has been
603 Text |             consider what you think best for you and me.’ ‘That is
604 Text |           consider and act as seems best about this and about other


Theaetetus
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605 Intro|           are characteristic of his best period of authorship. The
606 Intro|       common idea. The third is the best explanation,—the possession
607 Intro|           no assurance and which at best were only probable. The
608 Intro|           seen a thing is often the best way of recalling it to the
609 Intro|      passive,’ ‘mind and body,’ are best conceived by us as differences
610 Intro|           imperfect indeed, but the best we can, we are asked to
611 Intro|   spectators, not thinkers, and the best philosophy is that which
612 Text |    calculation?~THEAETETUS: I do my best.~SOCRATES: Yes, my boy,
613 Text |     mistaken about you, but do your best to ascertain the true nature
614 Text |       myself a midwife, and do your best to answer the questions
615 Text |      ashamed of not trying to do my best. Now he who knows perceives
616 Text |             THEODORUS: I will do my best to avoid that error.~SOCRATES:
617 Text |          opinion.~SOCRATES: And the best of the joke is, that he
618 Text |       within call, we must make the best use of our own faculties,
619 Text |          one will be to himself the best judge of the pleasure which
620 Text |              THEODORUS: That is the best refutation of him, Socrates;
621 Text |             or the unjust just; or, best of all—have you ever attempted


Timaeus
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622 Intro|        HERMOCRATES: ‘We will do our best, and have been already preparing;
623 Intro|          wisest of men but also the best of poets. The old man brightened
624 Intro|         Athens was the greatest and best of cities and did the noblest
625 Intro|           noblest deeds and had the best constitution of any under
626 Intro|           the goddess chose had the best of climates, and produced
627 Intro|        intelligible to you and will best express my own meaning!~
628 Intro|           creations, and God is the best of causes. And the world
629 Intro|         disorder. Now he who is the best could only create the fairest;
630 Intro|       framed the universe to be the best and fairest work in the
631 Intro|             and harmony, and is the best of creations, being the
632 Intro|    creations, being the work of the best. And being composed of the
633 Intro|         made to know and follow the best, and to be scattered over
634 Intro|          the river of speech is the best of rivers. Still, the head
635 Intro|         divides hostile powers. The best exercise is the spontaneous
636 Intro|            appeal to nearly all the best physicians of our own age
637 Intro|             made all things for the best. While he ridiculed the
638 Intro|           that of any Atlas in the ‘Best’ (Phaedo; Arist. Met.).
639 Intro|       affirms this principle of the best, but he acknowledges that
640 Intro|            he acknowledges that the best is limited by the conditions
641 Intro|            ideas of mind and of the best, is compelled in the execution
642 Text |     securing as far as we could the best breed, we said that the
643 Text |         imitators, and will imitate best and most easily the life
644 Text |             of all men living could best exhibit her playing a fitting
645 Text |            war and in every way the best governed of all cities,
646 Text |             creations and he is the best of causes. And having been
647 Text |         other. Now the deeds of the best could never be or have been
648 Text |           was by nature fairest and best. Wherefore, using the language
649 Text |         combines; and proportion is best adapted to effect such a
650 Text |      harmony, and being made by the best of intellectual and everlasting
651 Text |         everlasting natures, is the best of things created. And because
652 Text |            the mortal animal in the best and wisest manner which
653 Text |           execution the idea of the best as far as possible, uses
654 Text |           probability, I will do my best to give as probable an explanation
655 Text |            possible the fairest and best, out of things which were
656 Text |         light and the heavy will be best understood when examined
657 Text |          creator of the fairest and best of created things associated
658 Text |          allow the principle of the best to have the command in all
659 Text |        possible, and permitting the best part to advise quietly for
660 Text |       purposes, the way out for the best purposes; for that is necessary
661 Text |             all motions that is the best which is produced in a thing
662 Text |             re-uniting the body the best is gymnastic; the next best
663 Text |         best is gymnastic; the next best is a surging motion, as
664 Text |            shall be the fairest and best adapted to that purpose.
665 Text |            manner our argument will best attain a due proportion.
666 Text |         intellectual, the greatest, best, fairest, most perfect—the