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The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             the penalty, or, if his friends wish, thirty minae; for
  2 Text |             a host of relations and friends; whereas I, who am probably
  3 Text |             come, their fathers and friends will drive me out for their
  4 Text |     Critobulus, and Apollodorus, my friends here, bid me say thirty
  5 Text |        anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death,
  6 Text |       judges who have condemned me.~Friends, who would have acquitted
  7 Text |           there is time. You are my friends, and I should like to show
  8 Text |         dead abide, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater
  9 Text |           up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would


Charmides
    Part
 10 Ded  |         years have been the best of friends to me these volumes are
 11 PreF |             many obligations to old friends and pupils. These are:—Mr.
 12 PreS |           the assistance of several friends: of the Rev. G.G. Bradley,
 13 Text |           well as your own and your friends’?~As much one as the other.~
 14 Text |            for the sake of my other friends. For is not the discovery


Cratylus
    Part
 15 Intro|       patrons of the flux’ and the ‘friends of the ideas’ (Soph.)? or
 16 Text |             use of this name: ‘O my friends,’ says he to us, ‘seeing
 17 Text |           am desirous that we being friends should have a good understanding


Critias
    Part
 18 Text |           of their adversaries. For friends should not keep their stories


Crito
    Part
 19 Intro|          easily accomplished by his friends, who will incur no danger
 20 Intro|            no difficulty in finding friends in Thessaly and other places.~
 21 Intro|           himself and danger to his friends. Even in the course of the
 22 Intro|         better taken care of by his friends because he is in Thessaly?
 23 Intro|             Thessaly? Will not true friends care for them equally whether
 24 Text |           to all of us who are your friends, and saddest of all to me.~
 25 Text |         regard to me and your other friends: are you not afraid that
 26 Text |           in Athens only; there are friends of mine in Thessaly, if
 27 Text |              but of us who are your friends, when I reflect that the
 28 Text |       either to yourself or to your friends? That your friends will
 29 Text |             your friends? That your friends will be driven into exile
 30 Text |     well-governed states to Crito’s friends in Thessaly, where there
 31 Text |          absent from them; for your friends will take care of them?
 32 Text |            they who call themselves friends are good for anything, they
 33 Text |           is to say, yourself, your friends, your country, and us, we


Euthydemus
    Part
 34 Intro|           perish. Pretty lovers and friends you must all be!’~Here Ctesippus,
 35 Intro|        mauled by Euthydemus and his friends, and have a great notion
 36 Text |           do so, I replied; for his friends often come and ask him questions
 37 Text |           perish. Pretty lovers and friends they must be who want their
 38 Text |        mauled by Euthydemus and his friends, when they get hold of them


Euthyphro
    Part
 39 Text |             of corrupting his young friends. And of this our mother


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 40 Text |             Hellas, and having many friends and kinsmen of the best
 41 Text |             him to be taught by our friends the many?~ALCIBIADES: Very
 42 Text |            Then the rescue of one’s friends is honourable in one point


Gorgias
    Part
 43 Intro|            ago to his own clique of friends. He will pledge himself
 44 Intro|             only, much as Socrates’ friends in the opening of the Phaedo
 45 Text |           strike, stab, or slay his friends. Suppose a man to have been
 46 Text |             one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why
 47 Text |           we provide ourselves with friends and children is, that when
 48 Text |           themselves with money and friends, and cultivate to the utmost
 49 Text |              that of his parents or friends, or children or country;
 50 Text |            his family or any of his friends who may be doing wrong;
 51 Text |           wise men and my very good friends, but they are not outspoken
 52 Text |          gave to your most intimate friends, I have a sufficient evidence
 53 Text |             from giving more to his friends than to his enemies, even
 54 Text |             either he or any of his friends, whether private individual
 55 Text |            help myself or any of my friends or kinsmen, or to save them
 56 Text |        himself or his family or his friends? —and next will come that
 57 Text |       accomplished, as you and your friends would say, the end of becoming
 58 Text |        either of our own or for our friends, and whether this building
 59 Text |     anything be more irrational, my friends, than this? You, Callicles,


Ion
    Part
 60 Intro|             he is surrounded by his friends and there is nothing to


Laches
    Part
 61 Text |          were always companions and friends, and to the hour of his
 62 Text |           me as one of your warmest friends. You ought to have visited
 63 Text |          hear with which of our two friends you agree.~SOCRATES: What,
 64 Text |            spoiling the children of friends, and thereby incurring the
 65 Text |           the words of Socrates, my friends; but you, Nicias and Laches,
 66 Text |       SOCRATES: And are not our two friends, Laches, at this very moment
 67 Text |           what you can to help your friends, who are tossing on the
 68 Text |          vain words at a meeting of friends such as this?~SOCRATES:
 69 Text |          ourselves). I maintain, my friends, that every one of us should


Laws
    Book
 70 1    |           and was able to keep them friends.~Cleinias. The last would
 71 1    |        Athenian. No wonder, my dear friends; and if, as is very likely,
 72 1    |             Now we are speaking, my friends, not about men in general,
 73 1    |             fear of disgrace before friends.~Cleinias. There are.~Athenian.
 74 2    |       general. For tell me, my good friends, by Zeus and Apollo tell
 75 2    |              they would part better friends than they were, and not,
 76 3    |         Athenian. But then, my good friends, why did the settlement
 77 3    |          join in the prayers of our friends, and ask for them what they
 78 3    |           am able to you who are my friends, in the course of the argument.~
 79 3    |             be committed. For, O my friends, how can there be the least
 80 3    |              I mean to say, my dear friends, that there is no soul of
 81 3    |             his nearest and dearest friends: when this happens, his
 82 3    |          Under the ancient laws, my friends, the people was not as now
 83 4    |         single country, either when friends leave friends, owing to
 84 4    |           either when friends leave friends, owing to some pressure
 85 4    |            Athenian. Let no one, my friends, persuade us that there
 86 4    |             reason is, my excellent friends, that you really have polities,
 87 4    |     Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian. “Friends,” we say to them,—”God,
 88 4    |     descendants and his kindred and friends and fellow–citizens, and
 89 4    |            the patient and with his friends, and is at once getting
 90 4    |             is a third point, sweet friends, which ought to be, and
 91 5    |        deems the services which his friends and acquaintances do for
 92 5    |     stranger, having no kindred and friends, is more to be pitied by
 93 5    |      relation to the state, and his friends, and kindred, both in what
 94 5    |             whether his children or friends are alive or not, he is
 95 5    |           of our ability receive as friends with open arms.~Another
 96 5    |         with sacrifices, and become friends and acquaintances; for there
 97 5    |           the ancient saying, that “Friends have all things in common.”
 98 5    |             colony, which will part friends with us, and be composed
 99 5    |           wrongs done, can never be friends to one another, but only
100 5    |        appear and address us:—”O my friends,” he will say to us, “do
101 6    |            and masters never can be friends, nor good and bad, merely
102 6    |             as possible.~Thus, O my friends, and for the reasons given,
103 6    |           accessible as possible to friends; there shall be ways for
104 6    |           with an eye to professing friends. When a quarrel arises among
105 6    |           all to his neighbours and friends who know best the questions
106 6    |     Athenian. We will say to them—O friends and saviours of our laws,
107 6    |           five male and five female friends of both families; and a
108 7    |        chorus; but if not, then, my friends, we cannot. Let these, then,
109 7    |            stars?~Athenian. My good friends, at this hour all of us
110 7    |              I will. For, O my good friends, that other doctrine about
111 7    |         prayer for their welfare: O friends, we will say to them, may
112 8    |         drinks, and makes them good friends to their own wives. And
113 9    |     dishonoured, unless some of his friends are willing to be surety
114 9    |        injure. For I maintain, O my friends, that the mere giving or
115 10   |           be deceived:—You and your friends are not the first who have
116 10   |            they are made.—These, my friends, are the sayings of wise
117 10   |              Nearly all of them, my friends, seem to be ignorant of
118 10   |         them with the exception, my friends, of two?~Cleinias. Which
119 11   |         runaway slave of any of his friends or kindred with a view to
120 11   |     contributions as a friend among friends, but if any difference arises
121 11   |      instead of behaving to them as friends, and showing the duties
122 11   |      Cleinias. What?~Athenian. O my friends, we will say to them, hard
123 11   |       mother’s side, and one of the friends of the deceased, shall have
124 12   |          brought back, whether from friends or enemies, in his capacity
125 12   |            a friend taking leave of friends, and be honoured by them
126 12   |          who shall be chosen by the friends of the deceased to superintend,
127 12   |         name of virtue. To this, my friends, we will, if you please,


Lysis
    Part
128 Intro|           who is loved? Or are both friends? From the first of these
129 Intro|           like. But the bad are not friends, for they are not even like
130 Intro|             unsolved, and the three friends, Socrates, Lysis, and Menexenus,
131 Intro|          the sake of the good. That friends are not necessarily either
132 Intro|             out of the relations of friends have not often been considered
133 Intro|        minister to them. Among true friends jealousy has no place: they
134 Intro|          one another for making new friends, or for not revealing some
135 Intro|       friendship. The alienation of friends, like many other human evils,
136 Intro|             impair the happiness of friends.~We may expect a friendship
137 Intro|           be permanent when the two friends are equal and independent,
138 Intro|          has ceased to be. That two friends should part company whenever
139 Intro|     consideration, how should these friends in youth or friends of the
140 Intro|           these friends in youth or friends of the past regard or be
141 Intro|          worthy to bear the name of friends, will either of them entertain
142 Text |            two, I said; for you are friends, are you not?~Certainly,
143 Text |        Certainly, they replied.~And friends have all things in common,
144 Text |          you say truly that you are friends.~They assented. I was about
145 Text |           assented.~And shall we be friends to others, and will any
146 Text |          wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will
147 Text |          any one else, will be your friends. And in matters of which
148 Text |            but I have a passion for friends; and I would rather have
149 Text |       himself: I am such a lover of friends as that. And when I see
150 Text |          the other, they are mutual friends?~Yes, he said; that is my
151 Text |          were saying that both were friends, if one only loved; but
152 Text |         enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of
153 Text |          their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the
154 Text |            and the enemies of their friends. Yet how absurd, my dear
155 Text |            say? Whom are we to call friends to one another? Do any remain?~
156 Text |           wisdom, and they speak of friends in no light or trivial manner,
157 Text |       injurer and injured cannot be friends. Is not that true?~Yes,
158 Text |           are like one another, and friends to one another; and that
159 Text |        answer the question ‘Who are friends?’ for the argument declares ‘
160 Text |         declares ‘That the good are friends.’~Yes, he said, that is
161 Text |           another?~They cannot.~And friends they cannot be, unless they
162 Text |              the contraries must be friends.~They must.~Then neither
163 Text |           nor unlike and unlike are friends.~I suppose not.~And yet
164 Text |           disease to court and make friends of the art of medicine?~
165 Text |           assented.~Then if you are friends, you must have natures which
166 Text |            all—if none of these are friends, I know not what remains
167 Text |             imagine ourselves to be friends—this is what the by-standers


Menexenus
    Part
168 Intro|         were more honoured than the friends of others (compare Thucyd.,
169 Text |           by the state and by their friends; the tribute of words remains
170 Text |             they rejoiced their own friends with their valour, and their
171 Text |             among whom our departed friends are to be reckoned. Then
172 Text |             and temperance than the friends of others. Many also fell
173 Text |         enemies and delivered their friends. And yet by some evil fortune
174 Text |           will be received by us as friends, when the hour of destiny


Meno
    Part
175 Intro|           comforted himself and his friends, and will not be too confident
176 Intro|           philosophers, called ‘the Friends of Ideas,’ probably the
177 Text | administration of it to benefit his friends and harm his enemies; and
178 Text |           refute me. But if we were friends, and were talking as you
179 Text |          mean man, and had not many friends among the Athenians and


Phaedo
    Part
180 Intro|          are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an
181 Intro|       absent. Almost as soon as the friends of Socrates enter the prison
182 Intro|            leaving the gods and his friends. Socrates answers that he
183 Intro|         good, and perhaps to better friends; and he professes that he
184 Intro|            leaving the gods and his friends.~Still, a fear is expressed
185 Intro|            both of arguments and of friends. But this unfortunate experience
186 Intro|         therefore he would have his friends examine and refute him,
187 Intro|              but his dead body. His friends had once been sureties that
188 Intro|          generation:—so long as his friends or his disciples are alive,
189 Intro|             place ourselves and our friends? May we not suspect that
190 Intro|             will see and know their friends in heaven.’ But it is better
191 Intro|        under two heads: (1) private friends; (2) the respondents in
192 Intro|          discussions. Nor among the friends of Socrates must the jailer
193 Intro|           Ctesippus, Lysis, are old friends; Evenus has been already
194 Intro|        beauty. The gathering of the friends at the commencement of the
195 Text |           or done? And which of his friends were with him? Or did the
196 Text |           present—so that he had no friends near him when he died?~PHAEDO:
197 Text |             will converse with your friends, or they with you.’ Socrates
198 Text |       equally find good masters and friends in another world. But most
199 Text |           most trusted and familiar friends, and he has often quarreled
200 Text |             I shall not distress my friends with lamentations, and my
201 Text |           Very true.~But then, O my friends, he said, if the soul is


Phaedrus
    Part
202 Intro|             deprive him of parents, friends, money, knowledge, and of
203 Intro|           advice and opinion of his friends, at a time when he acknowledges
204 Intro|        reject the warnings of their friends or parents, rather than
205 Intro|      affections to the exclusion of friends and relations: how they
206 Intro|            a much greater choice of friends than of wives—you may have
207 Text |             will continue to be his friends; whereas, in the case of
208 Text |          non-lovers who were always friends, the friendship is not lessened
209 Text |           should we ever have loyal friends, for our love of them arises
210 Text |        those who will continue your friends through life; nor to those
211 Text |             yet this further point: friends admonish the lover under
212 Text |          will be the anxiety of his friends and also of his lover, and
213 Text |            father, mother, kindred, friends, of all whom he thinks may
214 Text |           friend is worth all other friends or kinsmen; they have nothing
215 Text |            Ask the same for me, for friends should have all things in


Philebus
    Part
216 Intro|         also occurs respecting the ‘friends of the ideas’ and the ‘materialists’
217 Intro|           for the good, who are the friends of the gods, see true pictures
218 Intro|           some other class; and our friends, who affirm that pleasure
219 Intro|          the only one, to which the friends of pleasure are reduced.
220 Intro|          rate for ourselves and our friends, if not for all mankind?
221 Text |           am sure that all my other friends will be glad to hear them
222 Text |            say that the good, being friends of the gods, have generally
223 Text |         disorders, which our severe friends utterly detest.~PROTARCHUS:
224 Text |          sorrow at the sight of our friends’ misfortunes—is not that
225 Text |        kinds of vain conceit in our friends which we enumerated—the
226 Text |             saying before, that our friends who are in this state of
227 Text |          feel at the misfortunes of friends?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
228 Text |           laugh at the folly of our friends, pleasure, in mingling with


Protagoras
    Part
229 Intro|         succeeds in making his two ‘friends,’ Prodicus and Hippias,
230 Text |            give him money, and make friends with him, he will make you
231 Text |             I have, and all that my friends have, if he pleased. But
232 Text |             spend the money of your friends as well. Now suppose, that
233 Text |             ask the opinion of your friends and kindred, and deliberate
234 Text |             of yourself and of your friends in carrying out at any price
235 Text |      Prodicus and Hippias and their friends to hear us?~Very good, he
236 Text |           are the companions of our friends here, Paralus and Xanthippus,
237 Text |        another and not wrangle; for friends argue with friends out of
238 Text |              for friends argue with friends out of good-will, but only
239 Text |            reckon to be kinsmen and friends and fellow-citizens, by
240 Text |     Simonides answering him): ‘O my friends,’ says Pittacus, ‘hard is
241 Text |          best. When we say to them: Friends, you are mistaken, and are
242 Text |            point of view, and say: ‘Friends, when you speak of goods
243 Text |           this subject?’ Excuse me, friends, I should reply; but in
244 Text |             Would you not admit, my friends, that this is true? I am
245 Text |           they would.~Well then, my friends, I say to them; seeing that
246 Text |          that the greatest. And our friends Protagoras and Prodicus
247 Text |            did the others.~Then, my friends, what do you say to this?


The Republic
    Book
248 1    |         these young men; we are old friends, and you will be quite at
249 1    |              if the two parties are friends, is not the repayment of
250 1    |             art which gives good to friends and evil to enemies. ~That
251 1    |         best able to do good to his friends and evil to his enemies
252 1    |           however, "for the good of friends and for the harm of enemies"-
253 1    |             is another question: By friends and enemies do we mean those
254 1    |          and the evil will be their friends? True. ~And in that case
255 1    |        ignorant of human nature has friends who are bad friends, and
256 1    |             has friends who are bad friends, and in that case he ought
257 1    |         argue that the good are our friends and the bad our enemies? ~
258 1    |           is just to do good to our friends and harm to our enemies,
259 1    |           is just to do good to our friends when they are good, and
260 1    |        which a just man owes to his friends, and evil the debt which
261 1    |      justice is "doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies." ~
262 1    |         moreover he is hated by his friends and acquaintance for refusing
263 1    |          and the just will be their friends? ~Feast away in triumph,
264 2    |            and command of money and friends. And at his side let us
265 2    |            gains he can benefit his friends, and harm his enemies; moreover,
266 2    |        enemies, and gentle to their friends; if not, they will destroy
267 2    |          likely to be gentle to his friends and acquaintances, must
268 2    |          gods and heroes with their friends and relatives. If they would
269 2    |         when those whom we call our friends in a fit of madness or illusion
270 2    |     inconceivable. ~But he may have friends who are senseless or mad? ~
271 3    |           savage tyrants instead of friends and allies? ~Yes, great
272 4    |            always have a great many friends and not many enemies. And
273 4    |          the general principle that friends have all things in common,
274 4    |     Polemarchus and the rest of our friends to help, and let us see
275 4    |             treachery either to his friends or to his country? ~Never. ~
276 5    |       matter of women and children "friends have all things in common." ~
277 5    |             my footing, and drag my friends after me in my fall. And
278 5    |            among enemies than among friends; and therefore you do well
279 5    |       discord, they being by nature friends; and such enmity is to be
280 5    |        discord only-a quarrel among friends, which is not to be called
281 5    |             that the many are their friends. And for all these reasons
282 6    |        Certainly, he said. ~And his friends and fellow-citizens will
283 6    |            philosophy, how will his friends behave when they think that
284 6    |          use to the State or to his friends, and reflecting that he
285 6    |            who have recently become friends, although, indeed, we were
286 6    |      imagine not, he replied. ~O my friends, I said, do not attack the
287 7    |           were to say to them: O my friends, what are these wonderful
288 8    |             and they enslaved their friends and maintainers, whom they
289 8    |             any help be sent by his friends to the oligarchical part
290 8    |        against the people and being friends of oligarchy? True. ~And
291 8    |           has these for his trusted friends. ~Yes, he said; they are
292 9    |         liberty; and his father and friends take part with his moderate
293 9    |           and most indispensable of friends, for the sake of some newly
294 9    |           or servants and never the friends of anybody; the tyrant never
295 9    |          under the same government, friends and equals. ~True, he said. ~
296 10   |              Had he in his lifetime friends who loved to associate with
297 10   |              and the companions and friends and associates of a principle


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
298 Text |            seeing as I believe, his friends foolishly praying for and


The Seventh Letter
    Part
299 Text |          PLATO TO THE RELATIVES AND FRIENDS OF DION.~WELFARE.~You write
300 Text |     iniquitous arrest of one of the friends of the party then in exile,
301 Text |          active in politics without friends and trustworthy supporters;
302 Text |           by which I could make new friends. The laws too, written and
303 Text |           All of us who were Dion’s friends were afraid that he might
304 Text |           and able to gain faithful friends and supporters, in order
305 Text |           badly off for trustworthy friends; and there is no surer criterion
306 Text |            is not destitute of such friends.~This, then, was the advice
307 Text |            this way, he should make friends of others among his connections
308 Text |          brothers, who had been his friends, not from community in philosophic
309 Text |     companionship common among most friends, which they form as the
310 Text |             view to counselling the friends and family of Dion. And
311 Text |     nevertheless, I advise you, his friends, to imitate in Dion his
312 Text |         those who shed the blood of friends.~But if, after all, this
313 Text |         advice to the relatives and friends of Dion. After those events
314 Text |           drag me thither, while my friends at Athens were literally
315 Text |        betray Dion and my Tarentine friends and supporters. Also I myself
316 Text |            himself, me, and you his friends; and this shall be open
317 Text |            against me. You and your friends and Dion’s friends here
318 Text |             your friends and Dion’s friends here must be sureties for
319 Text |            approval of you and your friends. For I have no great confidence
320 Text |          confidence in you and your friends. See if this satisfies you;
321 Text |             of philosophy and of my friends.~After this Dionysios and
322 Text |             all Sicily that we were friends. Dionysios, now deserting
323 Text |   preferring always Dion and Dion’s friends to him.” And he did not
324 Text |             and Heracleides were my friends, and he my enemy. He also
325 Text |            to Archytes and my other friends in Taras, telling them the
326 Text |            me with my relatives and friends to make preparations for
327 Text |           him that he might call my friends to his aid, if they wished
328 Text |        regard to his own power, his friends and his country the ideal


The Sophist
    Part
329 Intro|            the nature of Being. The friends of ideas (Soph.) are alluded
330 Intro|        humourous delineation of the friends of ideas, who defend themselves
331 Intro|        sense;—whether they are the ‘friends of ideas,’ who carry on
332 Intro|      suffering. Then we turn to the friends of ideas: to them we say, ‘
333 Intro|              from a height’ on the ‘friends of the ideas’ as well as
334 Text |            you may complain of your friends and not of me.~THEAETETUS:
335 Text |             all of us, who are your friends, is and always will be to
336 Text |            likely.~STRANGER: ‘Then, friends,’ we shall reply to them, ‘
337 Text |      STRANGER: Let us now go to the friends of ideas; of their opinions,
338 Text |            as well as to our former friends.~THEAETETUS: What questions?~


The Symposium
    Part
339 Intro|             elements and makes them friends. Every art, gymnastic and
340 Intro|              who fears a few select friends more than any number of
341 Text |         Pausanias said, And now, my friends, how can we drink with least
342 Text |             slave—in any other case friends and enemies would be equally
343 Text |   constitution and make them loving friends, is a skilful practitioner.
344 Text |          creator of our art, as our friends the poets here tell us,
345 Text |           and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above
346 Text |          opposes him. For if we are friends of the God and at peace
347 Text |       fluttered at a small party of friends.~Do you think, Socrates,
348 Text |             intruders. ‘If they are friends of ours,’ he said, ‘invite
349 Text |             his way to them. ‘Hail, friends,’ he said, appearing at
350 Text |          Then he said: You seem, my friends, to be sober, which is a
351 Text |           for Socrates. Observe, my friends, said Alcibiades, that this
352 Text |         that I have and all that my friends have, in the hope that you
353 Text |    contemplating enemies as well as friends, and making very intelligible
354 Text |           and honourable man.~This, friends, is my praise of Socrates.


Theaetetus
    Part
355 Intro|            in the Sophist the three friends again meet, but no further
356 Text |          evil selves, and with evil friends—when they hear this they
357 Text |           of peace, for they are no friends of yours; and their peace
358 Text |            upon us:—‘O my excellent friends, he will say, laughing,


Timaeus
    Part
359 Text |            whom they were by nature friends, but fierce to their enemies,
360 Text |        ought to be, gentle to their friends and fierce with their enemies.~