The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |         telling of one Socrates, a wise man, who speculated about
  2 Text |         the reason why I am called wise and have such an evil fame.
  3 Text |      inclined to believe that I am wise; whereas the persons of
  4 Text |    thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought
  5 Text |            although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser
  6 Text |            that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise;
  7 Text |           wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was
  8 Text |      things in which they were not wise. So I departed, conceiving
  9 Text |         calumnies. And I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine
 10 Text |           Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends
 11 Text |        stranger, who appears to be wise; and if he is not wise,
 12 Text |          be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of
 13 Text |            show him that he is not wise; and my occupation quite
 14 Text |            I shall see whether the wise Socrates will discover my
 15 Text |         death, fancying that I was wise when I was not wise. For
 16 Text |            was wise when I was not wise. For the fear of death is
 17 Text |           the great and mighty and wise city of Athens,—are you
 18 Text |        that you killed Socrates, a wise man; for they will call
 19 Text |         man; for they will call me wise, even although I am not
 20 Text |             even although I am not wise, when they want to reproach
 21 Text |            I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be
 22 Text |             and who pretends to be wise, and is not. What would


Charmides
    Part
 23 Text |       certainly thought him a very wise man.~Then I am quite certain
 24 Text |        sense Hesiod, and any other wise man, may be reasonably supposed
 25 Text |    reasonably supposed to call him wise who does his own work.~O
 26 Text |      wisely or temperately, and be wise or temperate, but not know
 27 Text |            man can be temperate or wise who does not know himself;
 28 Text |           work, worthy of the name wise, does temperance or wisdom,
 29 Text |            true, he said.~Then the wise or temperate man, and he
 30 Text |         True.~Then wisdom or being wise appears to be not the knowledge
 31 Text |         matter in this way: If the wise man or any other man wants
 32 Text |        medicine.~Exactly.~Then the wise man may indeed know that
 33 Text |   knowledge; and therefore not the wise man; he would have to be
 34 Text |           a physician as well as a wise man.~Very true.~Then, assuredly,
 35 Text |            supposing at first, the wise man had been able to distinguish
 36 Text |           great advantage in being wise; for then we should never
 37 Text |            wanted to show that the wise man had knowledge of what
 38 Text |         rest assured that the more wise and temperate you are, the


Cratylus
    Part
 39 Intro|          and the very good are the wise, and the very bad are the
 40 Intro|        right—the wiser or the less wise, the men or the women? Homer
 41 Intro|           moves with them, and the wise God Hades consorts with
 42 Intro|    consistently. And, therefore, a wise man will take especial care
 43 Text |            very good were the very wise, and the very evil very
 44 Text |         one, how can some of us be wise and some of us foolish?~
 45 Text |         you were asked whether the wise or the unwise are more likely
 46 Text |       HERMOGENES: I should say the wise, of course.~SOCRATES: And
 47 Text |     SOCRATES: And are not the good wise?~HERMOGENES: Yes, they are
 48 Text |          HERMOGENES: Yes, they are wise.~SOCRATES: And therefore
 49 Text |          were daemones (knowing or wise), and in our older Attic
 50 Text |          And I say too, that every wise man who happens to be a
 51 Text |       myself Heracleitus repeating wise traditions of antiquity
 52 Text |           only that the Goddess is wise (sophe); for seeing that
 53 Text |          wisdom. And Hades, who is wise, consorts with her, because
 54 Text |           with her, because she is wise. They alter her name into
 55 Text |           is true. And therefore a wise dictator, like yourself,


Critias
    Part
 56 Text |          days was arranged on this wise. In the first place the
 57 Text |           were constructed on this wise:—In the centre was a holy
 58 Text |     pledges to one another on this wise:—There were bulls who had


Crito
    Part
 59 Intro|         and the opinion of the one wise or skilled man. There was
 60 Intro|           the world,’ but the ‘one wise man,’ is still the paradox
 61 Intro|             they cannot make a man wise or foolish.’~This little
 62 Text |           cannot make a man either wise or foolish; and whatever
 63 Text |            And the opinions of the wise are good, and the opinions


Euthydemus
    Part
 64 Intro|        Euthydemus, ‘who learn, the wise or the unwise?’ ‘The wise,’
 65 Intro|          wise or the unwise?’ ‘The wise,’ is the reply; given with
 66 Intro|          did not know and were not wise.’ Then Dionysodorus takes
 67 Intro|            the grammar-master; the wise or the foolish boys?’ ‘The
 68 Intro|            the foolish boys?’ ‘The wise.’ ‘Then, after all, the
 69 Intro|               Then, after all, the wise learn.’ ‘And do they learn,’
 70 Intro|           Socrates himself (if the wise men will not laugh at him)
 71 Intro|           and business are not the wise also the fortunate? This
 72 Intro|            You want Cleinias to be wise?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And he is not
 73 Intro|               Yes.’ ‘And he is not wise yet?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then you want
 74 Intro|           further that it makes us wise, in what does it make us
 75 Intro|            in what does it make us wise? Not in special arts, such
 76 Text |          to Cleinias: Here are two wise men, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus,
 77 Text |            Dionysodorus, Cleinias, wise not in a small but in a
 78 Text |            are those who learn the wise or the ignorant?~The youth,
 79 Text |         those who learned were the wise.~Euthydemus proceeded: There
 80 Text |          No, he said.~And were you wise then?~No, indeed, he said.~
 81 Text |          said.~But if you were not wise you were unlearned?~Certainly.~
 82 Text |       unlearned learn, and not the wise, Cleinias, as you imagine.~
 83 Text |     anything to you, were they the wise boys or the unlearned who
 84 Text |         learned the dictation?~The wise, replied Cleinias.~Then
 85 Text |       Cleinias.~Then after all the wise are the learners and not
 86 Text |        fortunate on the whole than wise pilots?~None, certainly.~
 87 Text |         the risk—in company with a wise general, or with a foolish
 88 Text |         with a foolish one?~With a wise one.~And if you were ill,
 89 Text |           in a dangerous illness—a wise physician, or an ignorant
 90 Text |   physician, or an ignorant one?~A wise one.~You think, I said,
 91 Text |           said, that to act with a wise man is more fortunate than
 92 Text |            try and make himself as wise as he can?~Yes, he said.~
 93 Text |           this young man to become wise, are you in jest or in real
 94 Text |            wish Cleinias to become wise?~Undoubtedly.~And he is
 95 Text |         Undoubtedly.~And he is not wise as yet?~At least his modesty
 96 Text |            him, he said, to become wise and not, to be ignorant?~
 97 Text |     destroy the youth and make him wise, and all of us with him.
 98 Text |          for they are the words of wise men: and indeed I know not
 99 Text |        suppose that you are a very wise man who comes to us in the
100 Text |           sir, you admit that I am wise, answer as I tell you.~I
101 Text |            sense;—what do you say, wise man? If I was not in error,
102 Text |           science ought to make us wise, and impart knowledge to
103 Text |            the kingly art make men wise and good?~CRITO: Why not,
104 Text |           I did not know you to be wise men.~But if you will answer,
105 Text |         this, for if I am really a wise man, which I never knew
106 Text |     thinking of when he begat such wise sons? much good has this
107 Text |            of this;—and if you are wise, you will also bid your
108 Text |       giving no attention to these wise men?’ ‘No, indeed,’ I said


Euthyphro
    Part
109 Intro|        about any man being thought wise until he begins to make
110 Intro|           begins to make other men wise; and then for some reason
111 Text |            fancy that he must be a wise man, and seeing that I am
112 Text |         that I am the reverse of a wise man, he has found me out,
113 Text |           For a man may be thought wise; but the Athenians, I suspect,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
114 Text |            did you ever know a man wise in anything who was unable
115 Text |           you letters was not only wise, but he made you and any
116 Text |           any others whom he liked wise.~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
117 Text |          did Pericles make any one wise; did he begin by making
118 Text |           begin by making his sons wise?~ALCIBIADES: But, Socrates,
119 Text |            your brother, Cleinias, wise?~ALCIBIADES: Cleinias is
120 Text |         gentlemen, do you mean the wise or the unwise?~ALCIBIADES:
121 Text |            unwise?~ALCIBIADES: The wise.~SOCRATES: And a man is
122 Text |     respect of that in which he is wise?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
123 Text |         shoemaker, for example, is wise in respect of the making
124 Text |   agreement about which we must be wise and discreet in order that
125 Text |       SOCRATES: Then he who is not wise and good cannot be happy?~


Gorgias
    Part
126 Intro|         contending against the one wise man, of which the Sophists,
127 Intro|         ways of the wealthy and be wise.~Socrates professes to have
128 Intro|            evil. And the brave and wise are good, and the cowardly
129 Intro|      attain harmony, which, as the wise tell us, is the bond of
130 Intro|      condition of human things the wise and good are weak and miserable;
131 Intro|            this is opposed the one wise man hardly professing to
132 Intro|           They are the parodies of wise men, and their arts are
133 Intro|          duty and right of the one wise and true man to dissent
134 Intro| philosopher falls short of the one wise man, so does the actual
135 Text |          Callicles.~CALLICLES: The wise man, as the proverb says,
136 Text |           me, because they are not wise as you are; others are wise,
137 Text |        wise as you are; others are wise, but they will not tell
138 Text |         and Polus, are undoubtedly wise men and my very good friends,
139 Text |         Then according to you, one wise man may often be superior
140 Text |     perhaps you would say that the wise and good and true husbandman
141 Text |         not cobblers or cooks, but wise politicians who understand
142 Text |        state, and who are not only wise, but also valiant and able
143 Text |          that I mean those who are wise and courageous in the administration
144 Text |        that the courageous and the wise are the good—would you not
145 Text |        rejoice and sorrow most—the wise or the foolish?~CALLICLES:
146 Text |            are the foolish and the wise and the cowards and the
147 Text |           SOCRATES: But surely the wise and brave are the good,
148 Text |            Yes.~SOCRATES: Have the wise man and the fool, the brave
149 Text |        over, as they say. Both the wise man and the brave man we
150 Text |        sophists, although they are wise men, are nevertheless guilty


Ion
    Part
151 Text |             for I love to hear you wise men talk.~SOCRATES: O that
152 Text |           SOCRATES: O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could
153 Text |         whose verses you sing, are wise; whereas I am a common man,


Laches
    Part
154 Text |           And you would say that a wise endurance is also good and
155 Text |         according to you, only the wise endurance is courage?~LACHES:
156 Text |             But as to the epithet ‘wise,’—wise in what? In all things
157 Text |          as to the epithet ‘wise,’—wise in what? In all things small
158 Text |        good in that in which he is wise, and bad in that in which
159 Text |            man is good, he is also wise.~SOCRATES: Do you hear him,
160 Text |          my courageous actions are wise actions.~LACHES: Behold,
161 Text |           courageous and therefore wise.~LACHES: I could answer


Laws
    Book
162 1    |   sufficiently proves that you are wise and good, and I and Megillus
163 1    |          appoint a sober man and a wise to be our master of the
164 1    |          and drunken, and not over–wise, only by some special good
165 1    |     loosened, and fancying himself wise, he is brimming over with
166 2    |           of those whom they think wise, they are ashamed of dancing
167 3    |         But were you not right and wise in speaking as you did,
168 3    |          opposite are to be called wise, even although, in the words
169 3    |      greatest of all, is, that the wise should lead and command,
170 3    |         obey; and yet, O thou most wise Pindar, as I should reply
171 3    |         state ought to be free and wise and harmonious, and that
172 3    |       danger. And if there was any wise man among them, who was
173 3    |          Any more than our pattern wise man, whom we exhibited as
174 4    |      blessed are they who hear the wise words that flow from his
175 4    |          of the God who rules over wise men.~Cleinias. And who is
176 4    |        thus ordered, what should a wise man do or think, or not
177 4    |       piety. Next to these Gods, a wise man will do service to the
178 5    |           the intemperate, and the wise life than the foolish life,
179 5    |   surpassing the cowardly, and the wise exceeding the foolish. And
180 5    |       temperate and courageous and wise and healthy exceed the cowardly
181 6    |         Now a man need not be very wise, Cleinias, in order to see
182 6    |            the election be on this wise. All who are horse or foot
183 6    |            the hands of a not over–wise doctor.~The building of
184 6    |            make such a marriage as wise men would approve. Now they
185 7    |         man is to be made good and wise by experience and learning
186 7    |        youth. And here and on this wise let my fanciful tale about
187 8    |           shall be ordered on this wise. The goddess of Autumn has
188 9    |            character of loving and wise parents, rather than of
189 9    |            return shall be on this wise: (and here the law has difficulty
190 9    |   traditions as though he were too wise to believe in them, requires
191 10   |        friends, are the sayings of wise men, poets and prose writers,
192 11   |       legal restitution be on this wise:—If a man sells a slave
193 12   |        corrupted, pretending to be wise when he is not, let him
194 12   |       unbidden to the doors of the wise and rich, being one of them
195 12   |          been, or is, or will be a wise and understanding soul;
196 12   |             because they have many wise thoughts—that is to say,


Lysis
    Part
197 Intro|           reason is that he is not wise enough: for are there not
198 Intro|           wisdom stands: he is not wise, and yet not unwise, but
199 Text |       blessings; and therefore the wise lover does not praise his
200 Text |      therefore, my boy, if you are wise, all men will be your friends
201 Text |           good; but if you are not wise, neither father, nor mother,
202 Text |         that those who are already wise, whether Gods or men, are
203 Text |         done? I can only, like the wise men who argue in courts,


Menexenus
    Part
204 Text |       speech is made over him by a wise man who has long ago prepared
205 Text |     principle—he who appears to be wise and good is a governor and
206 Text |          temperate and valiant and wise; and when his riches come


Meno
    Part
207 Intro|          by statesmen, who are not wise or knowing persons, but
208 Text |            think that you are very wise in not voyaging and going
209 Text |            have heard from certain wise men and women who spoke
210 Text |            True.~SOCRATES: And the wise soul guides them rightly,
211 Text |           the son of a wealthy and wise father, Anthemion, who acquired
212 Text |         son of Themistocles, was a wise or good man, as his father
213 Text |          and not because they were wise, did Themistocles and those


Phaedo
    Part
214 Intro|        going to other gods who are wise and good, and perhaps to
215 Intro|            her way to the good and wise God! She has been gathered
216 Intro|            the course of ages. The wise soul is conscious of her
217 Intro|           to think of the good and wise only as existing in another
218 Intro|             If there is a good and wise God, then there is a progress
219 Intro|          then there is no good and wise God. We cannot suppose that
220 Intro|           the soul of the good and wise. (Compare Republic.) Such
221 Text |           come after me if he be a wise man, and not tarry; and
222 Text |          reasonable; for surely no wise man thinks that when set
223 Text |           in his running away. The wise man will want to be ever
224 Text |             for upon this view the wise man should sorrow and the
225 Text |          be the meaning of a truly wise man wanting to fly away
226 Text |        going to other gods who are wise and good (of which I am
227 Text |            her way to the good and wise God, whither, if God will,
228 Text |           soul, and especially the wise soul? Do you know of any?~
229 Text |      nothing of any other of those wise causes which are alleged;
230 Text |            ways meet on earth. The wise and orderly soul follows


Phaedrus
    Part
231 Intro|        balanced style in which the wise love to talk’ (Symp.). The
232 Intro|            or, whether the ‘select wise’ are not ‘the many’ after
233 Intro|         Who would suspect that the wise Critias, the virtuous Charmides,
234 Text |           this tale?~SOCRATES: The wise are doubtful, and I should
235 Text |          the fair, or Anacreon the wise; or, possibly, from a prose
236 Text |       friend whom he always deemed wise may seem to him to be wiser
237 Text |    ignorant is the inferior of the wise, the coward of the brave,
238 Text |        folly, and having now grown wise and temperate, does not
239 Text |       proof shall be one which the wise will receive, and the witling
240 Text |         SOCRATES: The words of the wise are not to be set aside;
241 Text |          assign to them?~SOCRATES: Wise, I may not call them; for
242 Text |           at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may


Philebus
    Part
243 Intro|           all kinds, good and bad, wise and foolish—pleasures of
244 Intro|             and some one who was a wise man, or more than man, comprehended
245 Intro|         even if we admit, with the wise man whom Protarchus loves (
246 Intro|       Protarchus loves (and only a wise man could have ever entertained
247 Text |            and hopes, and that the wise man has pleasure in his
248 Text |         handed down to us. But the wise men of our time are either
249 Text |          Socrates. Happy would the wise man be if he knew all things,
250 Text |           denied, should we not be wise in adopting the other view
251 Text |          of them; that is what the wise tell us; for, say they,
252 Text |    temperate are restrained by the wise man’s aphorism of ‘Never
253 Text |          anger~‘Which stirs even a wise man to violence, And is


Protagoras
    Part
254 Intro|            Nor need we wonder that wise and good fathers sometimes
255 Text |           met, Socrates, with some wise one?~SOCRATES: Say rather,
256 Text |           him, he will make you as wise as he is himself.~Would
257 Text |            him to be one who knows wise things, he replied, as his
258 Text |             Do not they, too, know wise things? But suppose a person
259 Text |           In what are the painters wise? We should answer: In what
260 Text |            Ceos, and several other wise men.~To this we agreed,
261 Text |            the prospect of hearing wise men talk; we ourselves took
262 Text |    Epimetheus, who, not being very wise, forgot that he had distributed
263 Text |            teachers, and make them wise in that, but do nothing
264 Text |          not just, or just and not wise.~You would not deny, then,
265 Text |            and a lower to the less wise. And I as well as Critias
266 Text |          albeit the utterance of a wise man: Hardly can a man be
267 Text |           one else is an ‘awfully’ wise man, he asks me if I am
268 Text |            conversation with their wise men, and are no longer satisfied
269 Text |        seventh in the catalogue of wise men was the Lacedaemonian
270 Text |    received the approbation of the wise, ‘Hard is it to be good.’
271 Text |           evil voluntarily. For no wise man, as I believe, will


The Republic
    Book
272 1    |           doubt the word of such a wise and inspired man, but his
273 1    |         enemies-to say this is not wise; for it is not true, if,
274 1    |          or Pittacus, or any other wise man or seer? ~I am quite
275 1    |         unjust appear to you to be wise and good? ~Yes, he said;
276 1    |         And the unjust is good and wise, and the just is neither? ~
277 1    |            not the unjust like the wise and good, and the just unlike
278 1    |      musician? ~Yes. ~And which is wise and which is foolish? ~Clearly
279 1    |            Clearly the musician is wise, and he who is not a musician
280 1    |            good in as far as he is wise, and bad in as far as he
281 1    |           say. ~And the knowing is wise? ~Yes. ~And the wise is
282 1    |            is wise? ~Yes. ~And the wise is good? ~True. ~Then the
283 1    |          is good? ~True. ~Then the wise and good will not desire
284 1    |          Then the just is like the wise and good, and the unjust
285 1    |          just has turned out to be wise and good, and the unjust
286 3    |            that he alone should be wise; but the other souls are
287 3    |            to believe that he, the wise Cheiron's pupil, the son
288 3    |       others thought to be, rather wise than foolish. ~Most true,
289 3    |           said. ~Then the good and wise judge whom we are seeking
290 3    |          this end they ought to be wise and efficient, and to have
291 4    |          And your State, while the wise order which has now been
292 4    |        being perfect, is therefore wise and valiant and temperate
293 4    |           describing is said to be wise as being good in counsel? ~
294 4    |          gives a city the title of wise and good in counsel? ~Certainly
295 4    |           city is not to be called wise because possessing a knowledge
296 4    |          good in counsel and truly wise. ~And will there be in our
297 4    |       according to nature, will be wise; and this, which has the
298 4    |           the one making the State wise and the other valiant; not
299 4    |          temperate and valiant and wise by reason of certain other
300 4    |       infer that the individual is wise in the same way, and in
301 4    |      quality which makes the State wise? ~Certainly. ~Also that
302 4    |       rational principle, which is wise, and has the care of the
303 4    |          replied. ~And him we call wise who has in him that little
304 5    |            is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing
305 5    |            honors and loves, among wise men who love him, need occasion
306 6    |           nature; neither are "the wise to go to the doors of the
307 6    |          not be perfectly good and wise if any ever was? Or will
308 8    |           the oligarchical on this wise? ~How? ~A time arrives when
309 8    |           arise? Is it not on this wise: the good at which such
310 8    |          the State ought, like the wise bee-master, to keep them
311 8    |         who is high-minded, who is wise, who is wealthy; happy man,
312 8    |         Verily, then, tragedy is a wise thing and Euripides a great
313 8    |     pregnant saying, ~"Tyrants are wise by living with the wise;" ~
314 8    |            wise by living with the wise;" ~and he clearly meant
315 8    |           to say that they are the wise whom the tyrant makes his
316 8    |             the tragic poets being wise men will forgive us and
317 9    |          and the brave man and the wise man alike have their crowd
318 9    |       Unquestionably, he said, the wise man speaks with authority
319 9    |        pleasure except that of the wise is quite true and pure-all
320 10   |         for imitation? Whereas the wise and calm temperament, being


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
321 Text |         think that in the city the wise are few, while the foolish,
322 Text |           to consider who were the wise and who the foolish. For
323 Text |        Odyss.)~He must have been a wise poet, Alcibiades, who, seeing
324 Text |          You would distinguish the wise from the foolish?~ALCIBIADES:
325 Text |          many are foolish, the few wise?~ALCIBIADES: Certainly.~
326 Text |           you use both the terms, ‘wise’ and ‘foolish,’ in reference
327 Text |            Would you call a person wise who can give advice, but
328 Text |         one, I say, we should call wise and a useful adviser both
329 Text |            of these arts should be wise also in general? Or is there
330 Text |          the clever artist and the wise man?~ALCIBIADES: All the
331 Text |            many unwise and the few wise?~ALCIBIADES: I was.~SOCRATES:


The Seventh Letter
    Part
332 Text |        policy, it is the part of a wise man to advise such people.
333 Text |       sooner die than cherish. The wise man should go through life
334 Text |    described, and making himself a wise and temperate man, if he
335 Text |           the one thing in which a wise man will put his trust,


The Sophist
    Part
336 Intro|          being as imaginary as the wise man of the Stoics, and whose
337 Intro|           against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true
338 Text |          art of dialectic is in no wise particular about fine words,
339 Text |          no one who thinks himself wise is willing to learn any
340 Text |       unjust, and that one soul is wise, and another foolish?~THEAETETUS:
341 Text |    STRANGER: And that the just and wise soul becomes just and wise
342 Text |         wise soul becomes just and wise by the possession of justice
343 Text |           he is an imitator of the wise he will have a name which


The Statesman
    Part
344 Intro|     medicine, and is seeking to be wise above what is written, shall
345 Intro|             the perfectly good and wise tyrant of the Laws, whose
346 Intro|           ancient Stoic spoke of a wise man perfect in virtue, who
347 Intro|          holiness, and also as the wise, true, and holy one. He
348 Intro|         kind. Admitting that a few wise men are likely to be better
349 Intro|         their certainty. Suppose a wise and good judge, who paying
350 Text |           dialecticians, that some wise and understanding creature,
351 Text |       shall separate them from the wise king.~YOUNG SOCRATES: That,
352 Text |          with them; if, I say, the wise legislator were suddenly
353 Text |             according to which the wise and good man will order
354 Text |       superior to the law? Nor can wise rulers ever err while they
355 Text |            The noble pilot and the wise physician, who ‘is worth
356 Text |    opinions, becomes temperate and wise, as far as this may be in


The Symposium
    Part
357 Intro|         the lord of war. And he is wise too; for he is a poet, and
358 Intro|            answers from Diotima, a wise woman of Mantinea, who,
359 Intro|         also in a mean between the wise and the ignorant. Such is
360 Text |           tale of love was on this wise:—But perhaps I had better
361 Text |          who~‘To the feasts of the wise unbidden goes.’~But I shall
362 Text |           have the benefit of that wise thought which came into
363 Text |           the company, if they are wise, will do the same.~It was
364 Text |           to him who is making him wise and good; the one capable
365 Text |            have been taught by the wise to speak; and Aristodemus
366 Text |          with any whom you thought wise, you would care for their
367 Text |          be regarded as the select wise; though I know that if you
368 Text |      ourselves, but of some really wise man, you would be ashamed
369 Text |            good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods;
370 Text |     compare 1 Alcibiades), a woman wise in this and in many other
371 Text |           same which I made to the wise woman when she questioned
372 Text |           And is that which is not wise, ignorant? do you not see
373 Text |            after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man
374 Text |            nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. Neither
375 Text |            who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied
376 Text |            if they are neither the wise nor the foolish?’ ‘A child
377 Text |           is in a mean between the wise and the ignorant. And of
378 Text |          his father is wealthy and wise, and his mother poor and
379 Text |           this really true, O thou wise Diotima?’ And she answered
380 Text |         Hail, worthy son of a most wise and worthy sire!~The same
381 Text |         you, said Alcibiades.~‘The wise physician skilled our wounds
382 Text |       reason to be ashamed of what wise men would say if I were


Theaetetus
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383 Intro|            evident delight in ‘the wise Theaetetus,’ who has more
384 Intro|            he is gentle as well as wise, always silently flowing
385 Intro|         all things.” He was a very wise man, and we should try to
386 Intro|      existence of wisdom or of the wise man. But I maintain that
387 Intro|       healthy; and the sick are as wise as the healthy. Nor can
388 Intro|            individuals and states. Wise and good rhetoricians make
389 Intro|        impressions, and think some wise and others foolish. How
390 Intro|          compare with the good and wise of this and other ages.~
391 Text |        SOCRATES: And by wisdom the wise are wise?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~
392 Text |         And by wisdom the wise are wise?~THEAETETUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
393 Text |      SOCRATES: Wisdom; are not men wise in that which they know?~
394 Text |   therefore I am not myself at all wise, nor have I anything to
395 Text |            he says so.~SOCRATES: A wise man is not likely to talk
396 Text |           Graces, what an almighty wise man Protagoras must have
397 Text |         saying that wisdom and the wise man have no existence; but
398 Text |      existence; but I say that the wise man is he who makes the
399 Text |          because he has another is wise; but the one state requires
400 Text |            Socrates, I do not call wise men tadpoles: far from it;
401 Text |         aye and true ones; and the wise and good rhetoricians make
402 Text |         pupils in this spirit is a wise man, and deserves to be
403 Text |            who as he said were the wise excelled others.~THEODORUS:
404 Text |          to become holy, just, and wise. But, O my friend, you cannot
405 Text |            measure of all things—a wise man only is a measure; neither
406 Text |            And such men are called wise. Do you agree?~THEAETETUS:
407 Text |            profession of the great wise ones who are called orators
408 Text |         which in former times many wise men have grown old and have


Timaeus
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409 Intro|        bones and flesh was on this wise. The foundation of these
410 Intro|      unwise feel, and which to the wise becomes a higher sense of
411 Intro|         irony (Greek—a word to the wise). ‘To know or tell the origin
412 Intro|      believing on the testimony of wise men: God desired that all
413 Intro|      believing on the testimony of wise men,’ is very characteristic
414 Text |      believing on the testimony of wise men: God desired that all
415 Text |     following elements and on this wise: Out of the indivisible
416 Text |           himself while he lives a wise and moderate pastime. Let
417 Text |      unwise feel, and which to the wise becomes a higher sort of