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1 Intro| substance, though we might desire that to such a serious charge 2 Text | waited a little while, your desire would have been fulfilled Charmides Part
3 Ded | himself, who must always desire to be read as he is at his 4 Intro| tendency, and for a natural desire to save his reputation with 5 Text | not.~Could there be any desire which is not the desire 6 Text | desire which is not the desire of any pleasure, but of Cratylus Part
7 Intro| from two causes: first, the desire to bring Plato’s theory 8 Intro| of foreign languages, the desire of euphony, to be formative 9 Intro| of spells, namely by the desire of virtue, which they hope 10 Intro| pei e psuche: pothos, the desire which is in another place, 11 Intro| be justly charged with a desire to frame language on artificial 12 Text | him more to the same spot,—desire or necessity?~HERMOGENES: 13 Text | or necessity?~HERMOGENES: Desire, Socrates, is stronger far.~ 14 Text | of chains, then by some desire, as I should certainly infer, 15 Text | therefore by the greatest desire, if the chain is to be the 16 Text | Yes.~SOCRATES: And is any desire stronger than the thought 17 Text | he can bind them with the desire of virtue, but while they 18 Text | the old Attic way, if you desire to know the probable truth 19 Text | which is neou esis (the desire of the new); the word neos 20 Text | HERMOGENES: Such is my desire.~SOCRATES: And mine, too, 21 Text | called imera, from imeros, desire.~HERMOGENES: Clearly.~SOCRATES: 22 Text | lupe (pain), epithumia (desire), and the like, Socrates?~ 23 Text | boiling of the soul; imeros (desire) denotes the stream (rous) 24 Text | roes— because flowing with desire (iemenos), and expresses 25 Text | longing) is expressive of the desire of that which is not present 26 Text | impart them to you if you desire, and I hope that you will Critias Part
27 Intro| to the actual facts. The desire to do honour to his own Crito Part
28 Text | sacred laws from a miserable desire of a little more life? Perhaps Euthydemus Part
29 Intro| up as follows:—~All men desire good; and good means the 30 Intro| generation, were animated by the desire to exclude the conception 31 Text | what sort of a discourse I desire to hear; and if I do this 32 Text | question to you: Do not all men desire happiness? And yet, perhaps, 33 Text | being is there who does not desire happiness?~There is no one, 34 Text | said, since we all of us desire happiness, how can we be 35 Text | said: Seeing that all men desire happiness, and happiness, 36 Text | citizen or stranger—the eager desire and prayer to them that 37 Text | say in my presence that I desire my beloved, whom I value 38 Text | True, he said.~And our desire is not to be skilful lyre-makers, 39 Text | Nay, take nothing away; I desire no favours of you; but let 40 Text | able to use as you would desire, for example, an ox or a The First Alcibiades Part
41 Text | Then if, as you say, you desire to know, I suppose that 42 Text | hands the power which you desire, but I only, God being my 43 Text | are what you would most desire to have, and their opposites 44 Text | opposites you would least desire?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES: 45 Text | endurance and love of toil and desire of glory and ambition of 46 Text | Barbarians, which you seem to desire more than any other man Gorgias Part
47 Intro| best, but not what they desire, for the desire of all is 48 Intro| what they desire, for the desire of all is towards the good. 49 Intro| attaining both. There is no desire on his part to offer any 50 Intro| they not do whatever they desire?’ They have no power, and 51 Intro| best, and never what they desire; for they never attain the 52 Intro| attain the true object of desire, which is the good. ‘As 53 Intro| man has an enemy, he will desire not to punish him, but that 54 Intro| only been actuated by a desire for their good. And therefore 55 Intro| the judge in that day; my desire in life is to be able to 56 Intro| things; all or almost all desire to appear better than they 57 Intro| must have the spirit and desire to be. If they are ignorant, 58 Intro| extremity; they do not really desire them to obey all the ignorant 59 Text | young men present might desire to become your pupil, and 60 Text | Socrates, which shows their desire to listen to you; and for 61 Text | not the just man always desire to do what is just?~GORGIAS: 62 Text | former expression, have any desire to set it on its legs, take 63 Text | the time; for who would desire to take the risk of a voyage 64 Text | the word injustice, the desire of a man to have more than 65 Text | modesty, nor yet from a desire to deceive me, for you are 66 Text | own weakness, which they desire to conceal, and hence they 67 Text | hungry, or has any other desire, does he not cease from 68 Text | does he not cease from the desire and the pleasure at the 69 Text | aspirations? Is all her aim and desire only to give pleasure to 70 Text | and in the never-ending desire satisfy them leading a robber’ 71 Text | them, will make you as you desire, a statesman and orator: 72 Text | such benefits call forth a desire to requite them, and there 73 Text | which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, Laches Part
74 Text | to fight in armour will desire to learn the proper arrangement 75 Text | Solon says, he will wish and desire to be learning so long as Laws Book
76 1 | Cleinias. Every one would desire the latter in the case of 77 1 | would not that also be the desire of the legislator?~Cleinias. 78 3 | that there is one common desire of all mankind?~Megillus. 79 3 | What is it?~Athenian. The desire which a man has, that all 80 3 | accordance with his soul’s desire.~Megillus. Certainly.~Athenian. 81 3 | Athenian. And having this desire always, and at every time 82 3 | mean that a man should not desire or be in a hurry to have 83 3 | opinion, having affection and desire in their train. And now 84 3 | and nine others. And they desire us to give them any laws 85 4 | I do not speak from any desire to recall past grievances); 86 4 | say that I have any great desire to see one.~Athenian. And 87 4 | is by nature inclined to desire to the utmost; for the desire 88 4 | desire to the utmost; for the desire of every man that he may 89 5 | thing which we all of us desire—I mean in having a greater 90 5 | painful, after this manner:—We desire to have pleasure, but we 91 5 | pleasure, but we neither desire nor choose pain; and the 92 5 | to assert that we should desire. And all these differ or 93 5 | of choice, in relation to desire. And such being the necessary 94 5 | sort of lives we by nature desire. And if we wish for any 95 5 | any others, I say that we desire them only through some ignorance 96 5 | the objects of will and desire and their opposites, and 97 5 | among constitutions, and may desire to give to his state some 98 5 | who orders the state will desire what is possible, and will 99 6 | thing which every one would desire.~Athenian. And if any one 100 6 | mode of acquisition, or desire, or opinion, or knowledge— 101 6 | marriage, nor specially to desire a rich one; but if other 102 6 | all his actions, ought to desire to become the relation of 103 6 | very results which we least desire to happen. Now, to add to 104 6 | there must be some degree of desire, in order to cement and 105 6 | intercourse not having the desire which is created by time, 106 6 | every animal has a natural desire for them, and is violently 107 6 | greatest and sharpest want and desire breaks out last, and is 108 7 | legislation; and we will desire the one to give their instructions 109 7 | and, being different, will desire a different sort of life, 110 7 | under the influence of this desire will want other institutions 111 7 | will say to them, may no desire or love of hunting in the 112 7 | contrivance; and let not any desire of catching men and of piracy 113 7 | lawless hunters. And as to the desire of thieving in town or country, 114 8 | nature of friendship and desire, and of these so–called 115 8 | beloved; the other holds the desire of the body to be a secondary 116 8 | love of honour, and the desire of beauty, not in the body 117 9 | criminal, whom some tormenting desire by night and by day tempts 118 9 | rate we should profess a desire to differ, agree and disagree 119 9 | of the soul maddened by desire; and this is most commonly 120 10 | impiously disposed as they desire, partly demonstrating to 121 10 | help you; but should you desire to hear more, listen to 122 12 | being such citizens as desire to look a little more at 123 12 | Well, but ought we not to desire to see it, and to see where Lysis Part
124 Intro| has to be devised. May not desire be the source of friendship? 125 Intro| source of friendship? And desire is of what a man wants and 126 Text | and mother love you, and desire that you should be happy, 127 Text | you from doing what you desire?~Yes, indeed, Socrates; 128 Text | doing nothing which you desire; so that you have no good, 129 Text | have their fancies; some desire horses, and others dogs; 130 Text | Now, I have no violent desire of any of these things; 131 Text | he who wants nothing will desire nothing?~He will not.~Neither 132 Text | love that which he does not desire?~He cannot.~And he who loves 133 Text | evil it would not still desire and love the good; for, 134 Text | presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but 135 Text | thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; 136 Text | that we did but love and desire the good because of the 137 Text | more, or have any similar desire? Or may we suppose that 138 Text | manner thirst or any similar desire may sometimes be a good 139 Text | were saying just now, that desire is the cause of friendship; 140 Text | Certainly.~Then love, and desire, and friendship would appear Meno Part
141 Intro| renewed. Again he professes a desire to know ‘what virtue is’ 142 Intro| of them—that mankind only desire evil through ignorance; ( 143 Intro| inspired with an ardent desire of knowledge, and is equally 144 Intro| virtue as ‘the power and desire of attaining things honourable,’ 145 Intro| work is due mainly to the desire to bring together in a single 146 Text | on to say: That is what I desire to know, Meno; tell me what 147 Text | say too—~‘Virtue is the desire of things honourable and 148 Text | desires the honourable also desire the good?~MENO: Certainly.~ 149 Text | Then are there some who desire the evil and others who 150 Text | the evil and others who desire the good? Do not all men, 151 Text | not all men, my dear sir, desire good?~MENO: I think not.~ 152 Text | SOCRATES: There are some who desire evil?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: 153 Text | think the evils which they desire, to be good; or do they 154 Text | that they are evil and yet desire them?~MENO: Both, I think.~ 155 Text | Certainly I do.~SOCRATES: And desire is of possession?~MENO: 156 Text | ignorant of their nature do not desire them; but they desire what 157 Text | not desire them; but they desire what they suppose to be 158 Text | to be goods they really desire goods?~MENO: Yes, in that 159 Text | do those who, as you say, desire evils, and think that evils 160 Text | SOCRATES: And does any one desire to be miserable and ill-fated?~ 161 Text | for what is misery but the desire and possession of evil?~ 162 Text | just now that virtue is the desire and power of attaining good?~ 163 Text | this be affirmed, then the desire of good is common to all, Phaedo Part
164 Intro| and temperate because they desire greater pleasures. But he 165 Intro| bodily pleasures—not from a desire of having more or greater 166 Intro| Pain soon overpowers the desire of life; old age, like the 167 Intro| vagabonds upon the earth.’ The desire of recognizing a lost mother 168 Intro| describes, in a digression, the desire of the soul to fly away 169 Text | And now, O my judges, I desire to prove to you that the 170 Text | be so, and he has had the desire of death all his life long, 171 Text | life which philosophers desire is in reality death, and 172 Text | of the death which they desire.~And they are right, Simmias, 173 Text | she has no bodily sense or desire, but is aspiring after true 174 Text | the evils of the body, our desire will not be satisfied? and 175 Text | not be satisfied? and our desire is of the truth. For the 176 Text | attain the wisdom which we desire, and of which we say that 177 Text | with the soul, when this desire of theirs is granted, how 178 Text | of losing; and in their desire to keep them, they abstain 179 Text | Surely the proof which you desire has been already furnished. 180 Text | Cebes, I had a prodigious desire to know that department Phaedrus Part
181 Intro| better and a worsereason and desire, which are generally at 182 Intro| to relax and grow again; desire which has been imprisoned 183 Intro| rhetoricians of the age, who desire to attain immortality by 184 Intro| were taken unawares and desire to part company. Better, 185 Intro| the furious impulses of desire. In the end something is 186 Intro| national or political force, no desire for consistency, no love 187 Text | than to comply with his desire, you will have to quarrel 188 Text | anything more which you desire or which in your opinion 189 Text | divulged even at my earnest desire. Only, as you say, promise 190 Text | one sees that love is a desire, and we know also that non-lovers 191 Text | know also that non-lovers desire the beautiful and good. 192 Text | will; one is the natural desire of pleasure, the other is 193 Text | called temperance; but when desire, which is devoid of reason, 194 Text | bearer of the name. The desire of eating, for example, 195 Text | glutton; the tyrannical desire of drink, which inclines 196 Text | inclines the possessor of the desire to drink, has a name which 197 Text | further that the irrational desire which overcomes the tendency 198 Text | own kindred—that supreme desire, I say, which by leading 199 Text | pleasure will of course desire to make his beloved as agreeable 200 Text | necessity and the sting of desire drive him on, and allure 201 Text | afraid of Love himself, I desire to wash the brine out of 202 Text | who comes from the town of Desire (Himera), and is to the 203 Text | beautiful one, thither in her desire she runs. And when she has 204 Text | worship. The followers of Zeus desire that their beloved should 205 Text | blissful to the beloved is the desire of the inspired lover, and 206 Text | prickings and ticklings of desire, the obedient steed, then 207 Text | love with Ganymede named Desire, overflows upon the lover, 208 Text | friendship only, and his desire is as the desire of the 209 Text | and his desire is as the desire of the other, but weaker; 210 Text | not long afterwards his desire is accomplished. When they 211 Text | and they accomplish that desire of their hearts which to 212 Text | conviction or virtue which you desire, by the right application 213 Text | That is most assuredly my desire and prayer.~SOCRATES: And Philebus Part
214 Intro| of memory as the basis of desire. Of the ideas he treats 215 Intro| use and regularity.~6. The desire to classify pleasures as 216 Intro| another point of view. In desire, as we admitted, the body 217 Intro| contradiction. They do not desire to bring down their theory 218 Intro| or may be included. The desire to promote happiness is 219 Intro| tincture of affection, some desire of good, some sense of truth, 220 Intro| not at variance with some desire or worldly interest of our 221 Intro| country, of mankind. The desire of this, and even the sacrifice 222 Intro| universal fact that men desire it. The obligation to promote 223 Intro| upright man of the world will desire above all things that morality 224 Intro| a witness. More we might desire to have, but are not permitted. 225 Text | that all percipient beings desire and hunt after good, and 226 Text | possible notion of pleasure and desire, as they exist in the mind 227 Text | determine the nature and seat of desire.~PROTARCHUS: Ay; let us 228 Text | SOCRATES: And is not thirst desire?~PROTARCHUS: Yes, of drink.~ 229 Text | course.~SOCRATES: He does not desire that which he experiences, 230 Text | there is no such thing as desire of the body.~PROTARCHUS: 231 Text | us towards the objects of desire, proves also that the impulses 232 Text | the soul was supposed to desire the opposite of the bodily 233 Text | not speak of anger, fear, desire, sorrow, love, emulation, 234 Text | SOCRATES: I mentioned anger, desire, sorrow, fear, love, emulation, 235 Text | consider whether he would desire to possess or acquire,—I 236 Text | the feeling,—but would he desire to have anything at all, Protagoras Part
237 Text | part. After a while the desire of self-preservation gathered 238 Text | imitate or emulate them and desire to become like them. Then, 239 Text | discussion may go on as you desire. If Protagoras is not disposed 240 Text | these are the models which I desire that you and I should imitate. 241 Text | the sort of thing which I desire in this speculation. Having 242 Text | discussion, has been the desire to ascertain the nature 243 Text | our ideas, have a great desire that they should be cleared The Republic Book
244 1 | I said-the just does not desire more than his like, but 245 1 | he adjusts the lyre would desire or claim to exceed or go 246 1 | the ignorant? would he not desire to have more than either 247 1 | the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, 248 1 | the bad and ignorant will desire to gain more than both? ~ 249 2 | indicate the manner in which I desire to hear you too praising 250 2 | us watch and see whither desire will lead them; then we 251 2 | exchange for goods to those who desire to sell, and to take money 252 2 | take money from those who desire to buy. ~This want, then, 253 2 | reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell 254 2 | anyone, whether God or man, desire to make himself worse? ~ 255 4 | or under the influence of desire or fear, a man preserves, 256 4 | or by sorrow, fear, and desire, the mightiest of all other 257 4 | accomplished, he said, nor do I desire that justice should be brought 258 4 | another, and with a third part desire the satisfaction of our 259 4 | that assent and dissent, desire and aversion, attraction 260 4 | after the object of his desire; or that he is drawing to 261 4 | for the realization of his desire, intimates his wish to have 262 4 | dislike and the absence of desire; should not these be referred 263 4 | Admitting this to be true of desire generally, let us suppose 264 4 | point: is not thirst the desire which the soul has of drink, 265 4 | accompanied by heat, then the desire is of cold drink; or, if 266 4 | thirst pure and simple will desire drink pure and simple, which 267 4 | Yes, he said; the simple desire is, as you say, in every 268 4 | object, and the qualified desire of the qualified object. ~ 269 4 | the universal object of desire, and thirst being a desire, 270 4 | desire, and thirst being a desire, will necessarily be thirst 271 4 | same is true of every other desire. ~Yes, he replied, the opponent 272 4 | flutterings of any other desire, may be termed the irrational 273 4 | inclined to say-akin to desire. ~Well, I said, there is 274 4 | of execution. He felt a desire to see them, and also a 275 4 | eyes, but at length the desire got the better of him; and 276 4 | at times goes to war with desire, as though they were two 277 4 | first sight to be a kind of desire, but now we should say quite 278 4 | shown to be different from desire, turn out also to be different 279 4 | subject ones of spirit and desire, are equally agreed that 280 5 | assuming that what they desire is already granted to them, 281 5 | desires any class of goods, desire the whole class or a part 282 6 | as far as in him lies, desire all truth? ~Assuredly. ~ 283 6 | blunted, nor the force of his desire abate until he have attained 284 7 | poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed-whether 285 7 | the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of 286 7 | they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, 287 8 | become as rich as possible, a desire which is insatiable? ~What 288 8 | are framed by nature to desire both what is beneficial 289 8 | Very good. ~Will not the desire of eating, that is, of simple 290 8 | health? ~Certainly. ~And the desire which goes beyond this, 291 8 | Yes. ~And the insatiable desire of wealth and the neglect 292 8 | of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution? ~ 293 8 | observe, that the insatiable desire of this and the neglect 294 8 | although they may have no desire of change, the others charge 295 8 | there are. ~But will he not desire to get them on the spot? ~ 296 9 | digression; but the point which I desire to note is that in all of 297 9 | the utmost the sting of desire which they implant in his 298 9 | things which other freemen desire to see, but he lives in 299 9 | temperance, but he will always desire so to attemper the body 300 10 | in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of 301 10 | feel a natural hunger and desire to relieve our sorrow by 302 10 | the other affections, of desire, and pain, and pleasure, 303 10 | have a care of anyone whose desire is to become just and to 304 10 | may be undazzled by the desire of wealth or the other allurements The Second Alcibiades Part
305 Text | many, if they particularly desire to do that which they know 306 Text | prayer, ‘Whether you would desire to have one of the things The Seventh Letter Part
307 Text | have the same opinion and desire as he had, I consent to 308 Text | Now what his purpose and desire was, I can inform you from 309 Text | began to be moved by the desire to take part in public and 310 Text | Dionysios and how strongly his desire was directed towards philosophy 311 Text | hope that he might come to desire the philosophic life. But 312 Text | the upper hand, when they desire to secure their position, 313 Text | possessed by an extraordinary desire for philosophy. For this 314 Text | these reasons he conceived a desire for more definite instruction, 315 Text | whatever way you yourself desire; I know that you will desire 316 Text | desire; I know that you will desire what is reasonable, and 317 Text | test to see whether his desire was genuine or the reverse, 318 Text | the value of Dionysiosdesire for philosophy, and I had 319 Text | between you, if ever you desire friendship and wish to benefit The Sophist Part
320 Intro| which he ascribes to his desire of developing the dialectical 321 Intro| not really arisen from a desire to make them accord with 322 Text | that opinion is opposed to desire, pleasure to anger, reason The Statesman Part
323 Text | in accordance with your desire, let us begin with the longer 324 Text | and then Fate and innate desire reversed the motion of the 325 Text | partly out of a magnanimous desire to expose our former error, The Symposium Part
326 Intro| were divided between the desire of quelling the pride of 327 Intro| their want. For love is the desire of the whole, and the pursuit 328 Intro| the question, What does he desire of the beautiful? He desires, 329 Intro| happiness, and Love to be the desire of happiness, although the 330 Intro| declares that love is the desire of the whole, he expresses 331 Intro| at the time. ‘Would you desire better witness?’ The extraordinary 332 Intro| the good, and no man can desire that which he has. This 333 Intro| who has beauty or good may desire more of them; and he who 334 Intro| beauty or good in himself may desire beauty and good in others. 335 Intro| aspiration of intellectual desire. As the Christian might 336 Intro| may not lack the warmth of desire. And if there be such natures, 337 Intro| knowledge, but of faith and desire; and they are respectively 338 Intro| degrading passion with the desire of virtue and improvement. 339 Intro| other principle than the desire to bring together in a series 340 Text | which are unlike; and the desire of the healthy is one, and 341 Text | healthy is one, and the desire of the diseased is another; 342 Text | life: so ancient is the desire of one another which is 343 Text | could not explain what they desire of one another. For the 344 Text | does not appear to be the desire of lover’s intercourse, 345 Text | perplexity he said: ‘Do you desire to be wholly one; always 346 Text | for if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt you 347 Text | this is what you lovingly desire, and whether you are satisfied 348 Text | we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole 349 Text | the guidance of love and desire; so that he too is a disciple 350 Text | parent of delicacy, luxury, desire, fondness, softness, grace; 351 Text | Would he who is great, desire to be great, or he who is 352 Text | great, or he who is strong, desire to be strong?~That would 353 Text | case he might be thought to desire something which he already 354 Text | choose or not; and who can desire that which he has? Therefore, 355 Text | and wish to be rich, and I desire simply to have what I have— 356 Text | them. And when you say, I desire that which I have and nothing 357 Text | of things which love and desire seek?~Very true, he said.~ 358 Text | with himself: he has no desire for that of which he feels 359 Text | beautiful, what does he desire?’ I answered her ‘That the 360 Text | And is this wish and this desire common to all? and do all 361 Text | all? and do all men always desire their own good, or only 362 Text | All men,’ I replied; ‘the desire is common to all.’ ‘Why, 363 Text | may say generally that all desire of good and happiness is 364 Text | all men will necessarily desire immortality together with 365 Text | love, and the attendant desire? See you not how all animals, 366 Text | well as beasts, in their desire of procreation, are in agony 367 Text | love, which begins with the desire of union; whereto is added 368 Text | immortal virtue; for they desire the immortal.~‘Those who 369 Text | and immortality which they desire in the future. But souls 370 Text | the way of virtue, which I desire above all things, and in 371 Text | jealous, for I have a great desire to praise the youth.~Hurrah! Theaetetus Part
372 Intro| his other virtues. At the desire of Socrates he invites Theaetetus 373 Intro| no longer there, but the desire or imagination of it is 374 Intro| to the test, in which the desire for knowledge invents the 375 Intro| under the impulse of want or desire or pain, to attain or avoid 376 Text | the praises will naturally desire to examine him who is praised: 377 Text | boy, and so do I; and my desire is to learn of him, or of 378 Text | professional aims, only desire to see what is the mutual 379 Text | THEAETETUS: Yes, that would be my desire.~SOCRATES: And mine too. 380 Text | heat, cold, pleasure, pain, desire, fear, and many more which Timaeus Part
381 Intro| physiological notions, out of the desire to conceive the whole of 382 Intro| gods implanted in men the desire of union with them, creating 383 Intro| marrow, which the man has the desire to emit into the fruitful 384 Intro| brought to light. When this desire is unsatisfied the man is 385 Intro| of the heavens with his desire to find in them mathematical 386 Intro| of the reader. Who would desire better evidence than that 387 Text | at rest, is seized with a desire of seeing them in motion 388 Text | occupied with the cravings of desire and ambition, and is eagerly 389 Text | the gods created in us the desire of sexual intercourse, contriving 390 Text | which it respires a lively desire of emission, and thus creates 391 Text | disease, until at length the desire and love of the man and


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