The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             of him, appearing in the greatest and most public scene of
  2 Intro|              mastery over mankind is greatest, and his habitual irony
  3 Text |             fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest
  4 Text |        greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance
  5 Text |            ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour
  6 Text |             wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul,
  7 Text |            chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
  8 Text |             but where I could do the greatest good privately to every
  9 Text |            myself and others, is the greatest good of man, and that the


Charmides
    Part
 10 PreS |               On the other hand, the greatest writers of Greece, Thucydides,
 11 PreS |          companionship of one of the greatest of human intelligences,
 12 PreS |           however, is not one of the greatest difficulties of the translator;
 13 Text |               not quietness, but the greatest agility and quickness, is


Cratylus
    Part
 14 Intro|           least parts as well as the greatest; and the least parts are
 15 Intro|            is strongest, is also the greatest improver of the forms of
 16 Intro|       imitative sound,’ which is the greatest and deepest truth of philology;
 17 Intro|            which they represent. The greatest lesson which the philosophical
 18 Intro|              of human knowledge.~The greatest light is thrown upon the
 19 Intro|           the linguistic instinct is greatest, as in young children and
 20 Intro| resting-place. Language would be the greatest of all historical monuments,
 21 Text |              SOCRATES: And if by the greatest of chains, then by some
 22 Text |       SOCRATES: And therefore by the greatest desire, if the chain is
 23 Text |            if the chain is to be the greatest?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 24 Text |       therefore deilia expresses the greatest and strongest bond of the
 25 Text |           then, let me ask about the greatest and noblest, such as aletheia (
 26 Text |          which is, perhaps, the very greatest of all.~HERMOGENES: No,


Crito
    Part
 27 Intro|           evil in order to avoid the greatest, and to show his master
 28 Text |           shows that they can do the greatest evil to any one who has
 29 Text |           that the many could do the greatest evil; for then they would
 30 Text |         would also be able to do the greatest good— and what a fine thing


Euthydemus
    Part
 31 Intro|              in this enumeration the greatest good of all is omitted.
 32 Text |             that you will derive the greatest benefit from their questions.~
 33 Text |            that we have left out the greatest of them all.~What is that?
 34 Text |             foolish, admit to be the greatest of goods.~True, he said.~
 35 Text |             You would have heard the greatest masters of the art of rhetoric


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 36 Pre  |              Plato, who exhibits the greatest differences in dramatic
 37 Pre  |          dialogues of Plato, has the greatest merit, and is somewhat longer
 38 Text |              own state, which is the greatest in Hellas, and having many
 39 Text |              this, you will have the greatest power in the state. When
 40 Text |             When you have gained the greatest power among us, you will
 41 Text |              Good.~SOCRATES: And the greatest goods you would be most
 42 Text |           when having to do with the greatest matters?~ALCIBIADES: By
 43 Text |             not only ignorant of the greatest matters, but being ignorant


Gorgias
    Part
 44 Intro|          uses relate to the best and greatest of human things.’ But tell
 45 Intro|           power in the state, is the greatest good.’ But what is the exact
 46 Intro|              because that brings the greatest hurt. And there are three
 47 Intro|       ridiculous. To do wrong is the greatest of evils, and to suffer
 48 Intro|             suffer wrong is the next greatest evil. He who would avoid
 49 Intro|          escape? And in this way the greatest of all evils will befall
 50 Intro|     conception of happiness. For the greatest happiness of the greatest
 51 Intro|            greatest happiness of the greatest number may mean also the
 52 Intro|             number may mean also the greatest pain of the individual which
 53 Intro|    individual which will procure the greatest pleasure of the greatest
 54 Intro|             greatest pleasure of the greatest number. Ideas of utility,
 55 Intro|             which have exercised the greatest influence on mankind. Into
 56 Intro|        conditions of human life. The greatest statesmen have fallen very
 57 Intro|           most miserable of men. The greatest consequences for good or
 58 Intro|           all, but to a good man the greatest good. For in all of us there
 59 Intro|      religious point of view, is the greatest of misfortunes. The success
 60 Intro|            while seeming to have the greatest. For he is actually bringing
 61 Intro|           present, not excepting the greatest names of history. Mankind
 62 Intro|             of teachers; and the two greatest of the Greek dramatists
 63 Intro|              thoughts of man, of the greatest deeds of the past. The poet
 64 Intro|          This is what we mean by the greatest improvement of man. And
 65 Intro|             a mere blank to him. The greatest act of faith, the only faith
 66 Text |              relate?~GORGIAS: To the greatest, Socrates, and the best
 67 Text |              dark: for which are the greatest and best of human things?
 68 Text |            art is concerned with the greatest good of men and not his.’
 69 Text |           that your art produces the greatest good? ‘Certainly,’ he will
 70 Text |                for is not health the greatest good? What greater good
 71 Text |            consider wealth to be the greatest good of man? ‘Of course,’
 72 Text |            which, as you say, is the greatest good of man, and of which
 73 Text |         Socrates, which is truly the greatest, being that which gives
 74 Text |            as doing injustice is the greatest of evils.~POLUS: But is
 75 Text |          evils.~POLUS: But is it the greatest? Is not suffering injustice
 76 Text |            he has been guilty of the greatest crimes: in the first place
 77 Text |         killed. And now as he is the greatest criminal of all the Macedonians,
 78 Text |      question; which is, Whether the greatest of evils to a guilty man
 79 Text |              then delivered from the greatest evil? Look at the matter
 80 Text |              hurtfulness will be the greatest of evils?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 81 Text |       depravity of the soul, are the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is
 82 Text |               if the best, gives the greatest pleasure or advantage or
 83 Text |            be a deliverance from the greatest of evils, which is vice?~
 84 Text |             has been shown to be the greatest of evils.~POLUS: Clearly.~
 85 Text |          lives worst who commits the greatest crimes, and who, being the
 86 Text |              being released from the greatest of evils; they provide themselves
 87 Text |           doing of injustice, is the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is
 88 Text |            be punished, is first and greatest of all?~POLUS: That is true.~
 89 Text |              injustice, which is the greatest evil. Then, Polus, rhetoric
 90 Text |        pursues that, and devotes the greatest portion of the day to that
 91 Text |            others, when he is in the greatest danger and is going to be
 92 Text |            the largest coat, and the greatest number of them, and go about
 93 Text |          largest shoes, and have the greatest number of them?~CALLICLES:
 94 Text |             they have grown to their greatest he should have courage and
 95 Text |            shall inscribe you as the greatest of benefactors on the tablets
 96 Text |           true, and injustice is the greatest of evils to the doer of
 97 Text |         possible a greater than this greatest of evils (compare Republic),
 98 Text |             one which will avert the greatest of human evils? And will
 99 Text |             unable to avert the next greatest evil; thirdly that which
100 Text |            unable to avert the third greatest evil; and so of other evils.
101 Text |             and will not this be the greatest evil to him?~CALLICLES:
102 Text |            the other had in view the greatest improvement of that which
103 Text |          they are the authors of the greatest and most impious crimes,


Ion
    Part
104 Intro|        aphorism of modern times. The greatest strength is observed to
105 Text |            you: When you produce the greatest effect upon the audience


Laches
    Part
106 Text |             are resolved to take the greatest care of the youths, and
107 Text |              use, and will be of the greatest whenever the ranks are broken
108 Text |              Lacedaemonians have the greatest interest in such matters,
109 Text |              Are you not risking the greatest of your possessions? For


Laws
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110 1    |           virtue is displayed in the greatest of all battles. And we too
111 1    |              laws have regard to the greatest virtue; which, according
112 1    |         upward unacquainted with the greatest pleasures, and unused to
113 1    |             the opposite also of the greatest and most numerous sort of
114 1    |      anything, hold this fear in the greatest honour? This is what he
115 1    |              in the soul: first, the greatest courage; secondly, the greatest
116 1    |      greatest courage; secondly, the greatest fear—~Cleinias. Which you
117 1    |           men’s souls will be of the greatest use in that art which has
118 2    |           the palm, who gives us the greatest amount of pleasure and mirth?
119 2    |              gives most mirth to the greatest number? Now is this a true
120 2    |            we old men would have the greatest pleasure in hearing a rhapsodist
121 2    |           including even health, the greatest of evils. For in truth,
122 2    |             goods of fortune, is the greatest of evils, if life be immortal;
123 2    |           what belief will be of the greatest public advantage, and then
124 2    |            and intelligence, has the greatest influence, sing these fairest
125 2    |           and therefore requires the greatest care of them all. For if
126 2    |          here, he may do himself the greatest injury by welcoming evil
127 3    |              them, had therefore the greatest security for the maintenance
128 3    |              thought, I say that the greatest ignorance was the ruin of
129 3    |          consider what is really the greatest ignorance. I should like
130 3    |             What?~Athenian. That the greatest ignorance is when a man
131 3    |              ignorance; and also the greatest, because affecting the great
132 3    |            none; but the noblest and greatest of harmonies may be truly
133 3    |              be truly said to be the greatest wisdom; and of this he is
134 3    |             sixth principle, and the greatest of all, is, that the wise
135 3    |            really, as we assert, the greatest ignorance, and utterly overthrew
136 4    |             oligarchy, which has the greatest difficulty in admitting
137 4    |            in man coincides with the greatest wisdom and temperance, then
138 4    |            have to pay the first and greatest and oldest of all debts,
139 5    |            of being evil, may be the greatest of all goods. Again, when
140 5    |          which is declared to be the greatest penalty of evil–doing—namely,
141 5    |            against suppliants is the greatest. For the god who witnessed
142 5    |          would choose to possess the greatest of evils, and least of all
143 5    |             or allow to continue the greatest of evils. The unrighteous
144 5    |         passionate.~Of all evils the greatest is one which in the souls
145 5    |           are incurable, and are the greatest injury of the whole state.
146 5    |            number which contains the greatest and most regular and unbroken
147 5    |             and silver, and have the greatest empire by sea and land;—
148 5    |              of being saved from the greatest of all plagues—not faction,
149 5    |            twelve parts admit of the greatest number of divisions of that
150 6    |      ridiculous and useless, but the greatest political injury and evil
151 6    |           first of all, and with the greatest care; the others are of
152 6    |              and thirty who have the greatest number of votes. But who,
153 6    |           and the three who have the greatest number of votes shall be
154 6    |       election; the two who have the greatest number of votes shall be
155 6    |        however, is the source of the greatest good to individuals and
156 6    |           let the three who have the greatest number of votes [out of
157 6    |              to the six who have the greatest number of votes, let the
158 6    |        offices of state, this is the greatest; for the first shoot of
159 6    |          natural excellence, has the greatest effect on its maturity;
160 6    |        education. And he who has the greatest number of votes, after he
161 6    |        already, but this will be the greatest of them, and the most disagreeable
162 6    |              pains—and the third and greatest and sharpest want and desire
163 7    |           living thing is by far the greatest and fullest? Many will even
164 7    |           what I just now called the greatest of evils to states. Changes
165 7    |           censure of manners are the greatest of evils, and require the
166 7    |            insignificant, but is the greatest of all works, and ordained
167 7    |            deserves, shall incur the greatest disgrace; and let the guardian
168 7    |            and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness
169 8    |          they not competitors in the greatest of all contests, and have
170 8    |          occasion calli to enter the greatest of all contests, and to
171 8    |            for her citizens have the greatest leisure, and they are not
172 8    |             of them can attain their greatest efficiency without arms.~
173 8    |            at the time.~Water is the greatest element of nutrition in
174 9    |           has not abstained from the greatest of crimes. His punishment
175 9    |            law, him we will deem the greatest enemy of the whole state.
176 9    |             their various kinds. The greatest cause of them is lust, which
177 10   |             the aforesaid evils. The greatest of them are excesses and
178 10   |             are offences against the greatest when they are done against
179 10   |          which is imagined to be the greatest wisdom.~Cleinias. What do
180 10   |          Athenian. They say that the greatest and fairest things are the
181 10   |         about divine things? And the greatest help to rational legislation
182 10   |            come to the rescue of the greatest laws, when they are being
183 11   |             be imposing upon him the greatest calamity, and he will be
184 11   |        considering that they are the greatest and most sacred of trusts.
185 11   |             as air, in very deed the greatest enmities and hatreds spring
186 12   |           preserved or not is of the greatest consequence; the one is
187 12   |        selected persons who have the greatest number of votes, they shall
188 12   |          laws the mixture causes the greatest possible injury; but seeing
189 12   |       knowledge of good laws has the greatest power of improving the learner;
190 12   |              it, you will obtain the greatest glory; or at any rate you


Lysis
    Part
191 Intro|         another always the same. The greatest good of friendship is not
192 Text |      recollect, that the like is the greatest enemy of the like, the good
193 Text |          Then we are to say that the greatest friendship is of opposites?~


Menexenus
    Part
194 Pre  |              Plato, who exhibits the greatest differences in dramatic
195 Pre  |          dialogues of Plato, has the greatest merit, and is somewhat longer
196 Text |              were all united in this greatest and most terrible conflict
197 Text |              of us, and, what is the greatest miracle of all, the Persian
198 Text |               And this, which is the greatest good, they have attained.


Meno
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199 Intro|           but at a distance. All the greatest minds, except when living
200 Intro|            of them. After making the greatest opposition between thought


Parmenides
    Part
201 Intro|              speaks of them with the greatest respect. But he could hardly
202 Intro|               What difficulty?’ ‘The greatest of all perhaps is this:
203 Intro|              world as well as of the greatest? Parmenides rebukes this
204 Intro|              therefore being has the greatest number of parts, and every
205 Intro|            saying that being has the greatest number of parts; for being
206 Text |              There are many, but the greatest of all is this:—If an opponent
207 Text |           And it is divided into the greatest and into the smallest, and
208 Text |         limit.~True.~Then it has the greatest number of parts?~Yes, the
209 Text |            number of parts?~Yes, the greatest number.~Is there any of
210 Text |             was distributed into the greatest number of parts. For it


Phaedo
    Part
211 Intro|            subjects demand of us the greatest accuracy (Republic); also
212 Intro|           which are conferred on the greatest benefactors of mankind?
213 Intro|            which we are tending. The greatest changes of which we have
214 Intro|             be fairly urged that the greatest religious interest of mankind
215 Text |            of Socrates is always the greatest delight to me, whether I
216 Text |            he may hope to obtain the greatest good in the other world.
217 Text |            greater far, which is the greatest and worst of all evils,
218 Text |         principal ones, of which the greatest and outermost is that called


Phaedrus
    Part
219 Intro|              desires or excesses the greatest is that which is led away
220 Intro|              pass their lives in the greatest happiness which is attainable
221 Intro|              physicians who have the greatest distrust of their art? What
222 Intro|       profession of rhetoric was the greatest and most popular in Athens,
223 Intro|              preferred by him to the greatest. The question of a reading,
224 Intro|            past ages by his own. The greatest classical writers are the
225 Text |            elaborate work, which the greatest rhetorician of the age spent
226 Text |              fullest blossom and the greatest fragrance; and the stream
227 Text |              of the cicadae. But the greatest charm of all is the grass,
228 Text |           the madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings, and
229 Text |          utmost to create in him the greatest likeness of themselves and
230 Text |           And you are aware that the greatest and most influential statesmen
231 Text |            the beloved, and also the greatest possible good?~SOCRATES:
232 Text |              to be the author of the greatest benefits.~PHAEDRUS: Most


Philebus
    Part
233 Intro|            illustrated by sense, the greatest light appeared to be thrown
234 Intro|         please, that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest of sciences:—
235 Intro|             say that rhetoric is the greatest and usefullest of arts;
236 Intro|    maintaining that dialectic is the greatest or usefullest, but only
237 Intro|              often unseemly, and the greatest pleasures are put out of
238 Intro|               The simplicity of the ‘greatest happiness’ principle has
239 Intro|             system of ethics, with a greatest happiness principle or with
240 Intro|      inconsistent with religion, the greatest happiness principle is in
241 Intro|              familiar phrase of the ‘greatest happiness principle,’ it
242 Intro|             the principle not of the greatest, but of the highest pleasure,
243 Intro| acknowledging the benefits which the greatest happiness principle has
244 Intro|              he has not promoted the greatest happiness of the greatest
245 Intro|            greatest happiness of the greatest number, but because he has
246 Intro|             takes no cognizance. The greatest happiness principle strengthens
247 Intro|       suffering for others. Upon the greatest happiness principle it is
248 Intro|             which may often make the greatest difference in the consequences,
249 Intro|             in their own case by the greatest benefactors of mankind?’~
250 Intro|        readily and cheerfully from a greatest happiness principle. But
251 Intro|               They do not reject the greatest happiness principle, but
252 Intro|            when we approach him. The greatest happiness of the greatest
253 Intro|            greatest happiness of the greatest number was a great original
254 Intro|              can I contribute to the greatest happiness of others?’ is
255 Intro|            God. And the ideal of the greatest happiness of mankind, especially
256 Intro|        resolve this feeling into the greatest happiness principle takes
257 Intro|            stronger motives than the greatest happiness of the greatest
258 Intro|            greatest happiness of the greatest number, which is the thesis
259 Intro|             of goods?’ Admitting the greatest happiness principle to be
260 Intro|           likeness of the other. The greatest happiness principle, which
261 Intro|           According to this view the greatest good of men is obedience
262 Intro|        obedience to the law, and the greatest order is also the greatest
263 Intro|           greatest order is also the greatest freedom; ‘Act so that thy
264 Text |          latter would seem to be the greatest impossibility of all, for
265 Text |              in the enjoyment of the greatest pleasures?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly
266 Text |       throughout your life enjoy the greatest pleasures?~PROTARCHUS: I
267 Text |           words about matters of the greatest moment.~PROTARCHUS: I believe
268 Text |          that you should look at the greatest instances.~SOCRATES: Then
269 Text |             obvious instances of the greatest pleasures, as we have often
270 Text |              not those pleasures the greatest of which mankind have the
271 Text |            of which mankind have the greatest desires?~PROTARCHUS: True.~
272 Text |         person would wish to see the greatest pleasures he ought to go
273 Text |            if this be true, then the greatest pleasures and pains will
274 Text |              see what makes them the greatest?~PROTARCHUS: To be sure
275 Text |              declares them to be the greatest; and he reckons him who
276 Text |            And yet surely by far the greatest number err about the goods
277 Text |              Is that purest which is greatest or most in quantity, or
278 Text |            purest white, and not the greatest or largest in quantity,
279 Text |            never asked which was the greatest or best or usefullest of
280 Text |      clearness and accuracy, and the greatest amount of truth, however
281 Text |              Do you wish to have the greatest and most vehement pleasures
282 Text |               which appear to be the greatest, perjury is excused by the
283 Text |            pleasures, perhaps in the greatest of pleasures, the ridiculous


Protagoras
    Part
284 Intro|               as it is certainly the greatest of them—is indicated by
285 Text |          benefit), that which is the greatest good to the outward parts
286 Text |     metropolis of wisdom, and in the greatest and most glorious house
287 Text |            because they occasion the greatest immediate suffering and
288 Text |              ignorance, and that the greatest. And our friends Protagoras


The Republic
    Book
289 1    |            do you consider to be the greatest blessing which you have
290 1    |            this is in my opinion the greatest. ~Well said, Cephalus, I
291 1    |             by each one of us to the greatest advantage? ~And do I differ
292 2    |           acts, to have acquired the greatest reputation for justice.
293 2    |          crafty fox, as Archilochus, greatest of sages, recommends. But
294 2    |           within him, justice is the greatest good, and injustice the
295 2    |              good, and injustice the greatest evil. Had this been the
296 2    |             harboring in himself the greatest of evils. I dare say that
297 2    |          replied. ~Now the first and greatest of necessities is food,
298 2    |               I said, there was that greatest of all lies in high places,
299 2    |             example of the first and greatest among the gods. ~I entirely
300 3    |               and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune
301 3    |       completely to misrepresent the greatest of the gods, as to make
302 3    |              intemperance? ~Yes, the greatest. ~And is there any greater
303 3    |           those who have treated the greatest number of constitutions,
304 3    |           knowledge of their art the greatest experience of disease; they
305 3    |            their whole life show the greatest eagerness to do what is
306 3    |            of their country, and the greatest repugnance to do what is
307 3    |              memorials of honor, the greatest that we have to give. But
308 3    |         wherefore also they have the greatest honor; others he has made
309 3    |           that may be, will have the greatest tendency to civilize and
310 4    |            of any one class, but the greatest happiness of the whole;
311 4    |     guardians we would look to their greatest happiness individually,
312 4    |          prevail in her, will be the greatest of States, I do not mean
313 4    |          remains the ordering of the greatest and noblest and chiefest
314 4    |             one into another, is the greatest harm to the State, and may
315 4    |     evil-doing? ~Precisely. ~And the greatest degree of evil-doing to
316 5    |           which seems to require the greatest care? Tell us how these
317 5    |             executed, will be of the greatest benefit to the State and
318 5    |             full of milk, taking the greatest possible care that no mother
319 5    |  organization of a State-what is the greatest good, and what is the greatest
320 5    |       greatest good, and what is the greatest evil, and then consider
321 5    |      best-ordered State in which the greatest number of persons apply
322 5    |        feeling we admitted to be the greatest good, as was implied in
323 5    |            clearly the source of the greatest good to the State? ~Certainly. ~
324 5    |             State with a view to the greatest happiness, not of any particular
325 5    |         their young ones will be the greatest incentive to valor. ~That
326 5    |              the third, which is the greatest and heaviest. When you have
327 5    |            that which I liken to the greatest of the waves; yet shall
328 6    |        rejecting those who have this greatest of all great qualities;
329 6    |       opposite faction; not that the greatest and most lasting injury
330 6    |             who say these things the greatest of all Sophists? And do
331 6    |           who are the authors of the greatest evil to States and individuals;
332 6    |         individuals; and also of the greatest good when the tide carries
333 6    |          great work-yes; but not the greatest, unless he find a State
334 7    |              already shown to be the greatest of all-they must continue
335 7    |            enable them to attain the greatest skill in asking and answering
336 7    |             regarding justice as the greatest and most necessary of all
337 8    |            the rule of a city is the greatest and most difficult of all. ~
338 8    |          evil which is, perhaps, the greatest of all, and to which this
339 8    |              State there will be the greatest variety of human natures? ~
340 8    |           this and receive honor-the greatest honor, as might be expected,
341 8    |           from tyrants, and the next greatest from democracies; but the
342 9    |      respecting good and evil is the greatest. ~Very true, he said. ~Let
343 9    |              obliged to practise the greatest adulation and servility,
344 9    |             this is he who being the greatest tyrant of himself is also
345 9    |        tyrant of himself is also the greatest tyrant of his State? ~Make
346 9    |           individuals, which has the greatest experience of all the pleasures
347 9    |           surely this will prove the greatest and most decisive of falls? ~
348 9    |         decisive of falls? ~Yes, the greatest; but will you explain yourself? ~
349 9    |            never knew this to be the greatest of pleasures until they
350 9    |              extolled by them as the greatest pleasure? ~Yes, he said;
351 9    |          from reason which is at the greatest distance from law and order? ~
352 9    |       desires are, as we saw, at the greatest distance? Yes. ~And the
353 9    |              tyrant will live at the greatest distance from true or natural
354 10   |           user of them must have the greatest experience of them, and
355 10   |        acknowledge that Homer is the greatest of poets and first of tragedy
356 10   |         mention has been made of the greatest prizes and rewards which
357 10   |            and in a moment chose the greatest tyranny; his mind having


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
358 Text |           thinking?~SOCRATES: Of the greatest of all things, as I believe.
359 Text |             one who had obtained the greatest of goods.~ALCIBIADES: And
360 Text |          heard, have fallen into the greatest pains and sufferings. For
361 Text |          what is worse, pray for the greatest evils. No man would imagine
362 Text |            and esteeming that of the greatest importance in the state,~‘


The Seventh Letter
    Part
363 Text |              judges, and suffers the greatest penalties when it has been
364 Text |            they and he have done the greatest injury to me, and I might
365 Text |            the four suffers; but the greatest of them is that which we
366 Text |              man would be to win the greatest power and honour by rendering
367 Text |              honour by rendering the greatest services. And this end is


The Sophist
    Part
368 Intro|             to distinguish them. The greatest service rendered by him
369 Intro|           number?~And now arises the greatest difficulty of all. If not-being
370 Intro|             logicians, they have the greatest extension and the least
371 Intro|             them? Take away the five greatest legislators, the five greatest
372 Intro|       greatest legislators, the five greatest warriors, the five greatest
373 Intro|          greatest warriors, the five greatest poets, the five greatest
374 Intro|             greatest poets, the five greatest founders or teachers of
375 Intro|              of a religion, the five greatest philosophers, the five greatest
376 Intro|      greatest philosophers, the five greatest inventors,—where would have
377 Intro|             it.~2. Hegel, if not the greatest philosopher, is certainly
378 Intro|        philosopher, is certainly the greatest critic of philosophy who
379 Text |             before we proceed to the greatest of all. And as I know that
380 Text |         admit that refutation is the greatest and chiefest of purifications,
381 Text |           perplexities the first and greatest, touching the very foundation
382 Text |              which was coming is the greatest of all.~THEAETETUS: What!
383 Text |            not-being, we were in the greatest difficulty:—do you remember?~
384 Text |            am not mistaken, the very greatest of all sciences.~STRANGER:


The Statesman
    Part
385 Intro|            world, and this being the greatest of them, is most destructive
386 Intro|              the weaver’s art is the greatest and noblest of those which
387 Intro|             sensible images, but the greatest and noblest truths have
388 Intro|        divine revelation: and so the greatest difficulty in the history
389 Intro|             than in the words, —‘The greatest and noblest things have
390 Intro|            nation is unprepared. The greatest power, the highest wisdom,
391 Intro|          nations. How can we get the greatest intelligence combined with
392 Intro|       intelligence combined with the greatest power? The ancient legislator
393 Text |              consider this to be the greatest and most complete.~YOUNG
394 Text |            supposed to result in the greatest changes to the human beings
395 Text |            selected by us, to be the greatest and noblest of arts which
396 Text |             or argument; whereas the greatest and highest truths have
397 Text |            which are the noblest and greatest, are shown only in thought
398 Text |       present point of view that the greatest servants are in a case and
399 Text |       government, which is among the greatest of all sciences and most
400 Text |     themselves idols; and, being the greatest imitators and magicians,
401 Text |         magicians, they are also the greatest of Sophists.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
402 Text |         initiative in matters of the greatest importance, whilst others
403 Text |          exist, they always feel the greatest antipathy and antagonism
404 Text |           and punishes them with the greatest of disgraces.~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
    Part
405 Intro|         which love gives to man. The greatest of these is the sense of
406 Intro|           just and temperate has the greatest power, and is the source
407 Intro|      Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have
408 Intro|          origin of the sexes has the greatest (comic) probability and
409 Intro|           and fact. The union of the greatest comprehension of knowledge
410 Intro|     Memorabilia) does not regard the greatest evil of Greek life as a
411 Intro|         poets; and in mythology ‘the greatest of the Gods’ (Rep.) is not
412 Text |       philosophy always gives me the greatest pleasure, to say nothing
413 Text |            is also the source of the greatest benefits to us. For I know
414 Text |           among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source
415 Text |             the god Love, who is our greatest benefactor, both leading
416 Text |             I have now to speak: his greatest glory is that he can neither
417 Text |           the name inventor. But the greatest and fairest sort of wisdom


Theaetetus
    Part
418 Intro|            to be truisms, are of the greatest value, and free from all
419 Intro|           that language has been the greatest factor in the formation
420 Intro|            accidental, is one of the greatest wonders of mind...This process
421 Text |          tell you that this is their greatest pride, more than cutting
422 Text |              laws with a view to the greatest expediency; can legislation


Timaeus
    Part
423 Intro|             has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient
424 Intro|       difficulty upon the earth. The greatest things in the world, and
425 Intro|           great flood Athens was the greatest and best of cities and did
426 Intro|           Sight is the source of the greatest benefits to us; for if our
427 Intro|     pleasures or pains are among the greatest diseases, and deprive men
428 Intro|               as the contrary is the greatest of deformities. A leg or
429 Intro|              the notion of ‘one God, greatest among Gods and men, who
430 Intro|           Number and figure were the greatest instruments of thought which
431 Intro|             the least things and the greatest alike. One, two, three,
432 Intro|            all scientific truths the greatest and simplest is the uniformity
433 Intro|          which we know least has the greatest interest to us.~There is
434 Intro|        either is the occasion of the greatest discord and disproportion
435 Intro|              ought to be black.)~The greatest ‘divination’ of the ancients
436 Intro|             things as well as in the greatest; in atoms, as well as in
437 Intro|            Timaeus still remains the greatest effort of the human mind
438 Text |            said Amynander.~About the greatest action which the Athenians
439 Text |              out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about
440 Text |         opinion is the source of the greatest benefit to us, for had we
441 Text |              mortal man. This is the greatest boon of sight: and of the
442 Text |       smallest body to fire, and the greatest to water, and the intermediate
443 Text |           the class which offers the greatest resistance; so too does
444 Text |        because they have in them the greatest amount of fire and air.
445 Text |            occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal
446 Text |          first of all, pleasure, the greatest incitement to evil; then,
447 Text |             is the cause of the very greatest and most fatal disorders,
448 Text |             in from without; but the greatest pain is felt when the wind
449 Text |         justly to be regarded as the greatest diseases to which the soul
450 Text |               but of the highest and greatest we take no heed; for there
451 Text |              ignorance, which is the greatest of diseases. There is one
452 Text |             of the intellectual, the greatest, best, fairest, most perfect—