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The Apology
Part
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 worse—reason 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 Dionysios’ desire 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