Charmides
    Part
  1 PreS |        former, and yet the life and beauty of the style are impaired
  2 PreS |          Having a greater force and beauty than other language, and
  3 Intro|        noted (1) The Greek ideal of beauty and goodness, the vision
  4 Intro|        later period; and a youthful beauty and grace which is wanting
  5 Text |            remarkable for wisdom or beauty, or both. Critias, glancing
  6 Text |         advanced guard of the great beauty, as he is thought to be,
  7 Text |             quite astonished at his beauty and stature; all the world
  8 Text |             not only pre-eminent in beauty among his equals, but also
  9 Text |          other poets, as famous for beauty and virtue and all other
 10 Text |         ambassador, for stature and beauty; that whole family is not
 11 Text |     dishonour to any of them. If to beauty you add temperance, and
 12 Text |            the blush heightened his beauty, for modesty is becoming
 13 Text |            which is not the love of beauty, but of itself and of other
 14 Text |            be swift, and he who has beauty will be beautiful, and he
 15 Text |         sorry—that you, having such beauty and such wisdom and temperance


Cratylus
    Part
 16 Intro|       standard. They have often the beauty of poetry, but they have
 17 Intro|            and Republic of absolute beauty and good; but he never supposed
 18 Intro|            is also the principle of beauty; and which doing the works
 19 Intro|            which doing the works of beauty, is therefore rightly called
 20 Intro|             For is there not a true beauty and a true good, which is
 21 Intro|          always good? Can the thing beauty be vanishing away from us
 22 Intro|         proportion. As in things of beauty, as in all nature, in the
 23 Intro|      especially in poetry, in which beauty and expressiveness are given
 24 Intro|          may be a lesser element of beauty in such passages. The same
 25 Intro|             they lack some power or beauty or expressiveness or precision
 26 Text |      SOCRATES: And the principle of beauty does the works of beauty?~
 27 Text |            beauty does the works of beauty?~HERMOGENES: Of course.~
 28 Text |         Then mind is rightly called beauty because she does the works
 29 Text |             improper and spoils the beauty and formation of the word:
 30 Text |           is or is not any absolute beauty or good, or any other absolute
 31 Text |           Then let us seek the true beauty: not asking whether a face
 32 Text |             us ask whether the true beauty is not always beautiful.~
 33 Text |           can we rightly speak of a beauty which is always passing


Critias
    Part
 34 Intro|        intelligence and the love of beauty.~The Acropolis of the ancient
 35 Intro|          race, celebrated for their beauty and virtue all over Europe
 36 Text |             Europe and Asia for the beauty of their persons and for
 37 Text |             behold for size and for beauty. And beginning from the
 38 Text |             of wonderful height and beauty, owing to the excellence
 39 Text |           their number and size and beauty, far beyond any which still


Euthydemus
    Part
 40 Intro|             such as wealth, health, beauty, birth, power, honour; not
 41 Intro|            not the same as absolute beauty?’ Socrates replies that
 42 Intro|           but each of them has some beauty present with it. ‘And are
 43 Text |              And are not health and beauty goods, and other personal
 44 Text |         first—wealth and health and beauty, is not knowledge that which
 45 Text |            be in earnest their full beauty will appear: let us then
 46 Text |            not the same as absolute beauty, but they have beauty present
 47 Text |      absolute beauty, but they have beauty present with each of them.~


Euthyphro
    Part
 48 Text |             people as well. And the beauty of it is, that I would rather


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 49 Text |           replied: He relies on his beauty, and stature, and birth,
 50 Text |            belongs to you; and your beauty, which is not you, is fading
 51 Text |             even like to name to my beauty?~ALCIBIADES: Yes, I do.~


Gorgias
    Part
 52 Intro|            the best? ‘Health first, beauty next, wealth third,’ in
 53 Intro|     infinite and finite, harmony or beauty and discord, dialectic and
 54 Intro|          The poet clothes them with beauty, and has a power of making
 55 Intro|          were restored to youth and beauty: the dead came to life,
 56 Text |        goods of life, first health, beauty next, thirdly, as the writer
 57 Text |        making men affect a spurious beauty to the neglect of the true
 58 Text |             the neglect of the true beauty which is given by gymnastic.~
 59 Text |           other account of personal beauty?~POLUS: I cannot.~SOCRATES:
 60 Text |           institutions also have no beauty in them except in so far
 61 Text |             the same be said of the beauty of knowledge?~POLUS: To
 62 Text |           approve of your measuring beauty by the standard of pleasure
 63 Text |     beautiful things one exceeds in beauty, the measure of the excess
 64 Text |        beautiful are those who have beauty present with them?~CALLICLES:


Ion
    Part
 65 Intro|            testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work supply


Laches
    Part
 66 Intro|         less of poetical and simple beauty, and more of dramatic interest


Laws
    Book
 67 1    |        which are of rare height and beauty, and there are green meadows,
 68 1    |         first is health, the second beauty, the third strength, including
 69 1    |          cowardice? or when wealth, beauty, strength, and all the intoxicating
 70 2    |        hounds, and go in pursuit of beauty of figure, and melody, and
 71 2    |          Yes.~Athenian. And what is beauty of figure, or beautiful
 72 2    |         catalogue is placed health, beauty next, wealth third; and
 73 2    |            any respect deficient in beauty?~Cleinias. If this were
 74 2    |       should all of us be judges of beauty.~Athenian. Very true; and
 75 4    |          that on which some eternal beauty is always attending, and
 76 4    |        elated by wealth or rank, or beauty, who is young and foolish,
 77 5    |         Again, when any one prefers beauty to virtue, what is this
 78 5    |           life, and far superior in beauty and rectitude and excellence
 79 5    |             yet to the strength and beauty of his person, but also
 80 6    |       plantations and buildings for beauty; and let them bring together
 81 7    |             they are able to impart beauty and health and strength.
 82 7    |      producing health, agility, and beauty in the limbs and parts of
 83 7    |          the acquisition of perfect beauty or quickness in writinig,
 84 8    |          exhorting him to enjoy the beauty of youth, and the other
 85 8    |             body, and hungers after beauty, like ripe fruit, and would
 86 8    |           honour, and the desire of beauty, not in the body but in


Lysis
    Part
 87 Intro|           youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades both of them; they
 88 Intro|          noble descent and of great beauty, goodness, and intelligence:
 89 Text |           his goodness than for his beauty. We left them, and went
 90 Text |            as the old proverb says. Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth,


Menexenus
    Part
 91 Text |            has not done—that is the beauty of them—and they steal away
 92 Text |            not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when


Meno
    Part
 93 Intro|         like, in their unchangeable beauty, but not without an effort
 94 Text |             quality, as for example beauty, size, or shape? How would
 95 Text |            Health and strength, and beauty and wealth—these, and the


Parmenides
    Part
 96 Intro|            partaking of justice and beauty, and so of other ideas?’ ‘
 97 Text |         they partake of justice and beauty?~Yes, certainly, said Socrates
 98 Text |          knowledge; and the same of beauty and of the rest?~Yes.~And


Phaedo
    Part
 99 Intro|             further admission:—that beauty is the cause of the beautiful,
100 Intro|            and simple answer,’ that beauty is the cause of the beautiful;
101 Intro|            the higher revelation of beauty, like the good in the Republic,
102 Intro|      suffering should be clothed in beauty. The gathering of the friends
103 Text |           there is.~And an absolute beauty and absolute good?~Of course.~
104 Text |            only of equality, but of beauty, goodness, justice, holiness,
105 Text |     repeating, there is an absolute beauty, and goodness, and an absolute
106 Text |           mind is so patent as that beauty, goodness, and the other
107 Text |        whether essence of equality, beauty, or anything else—are these
108 Text |           that there is an absolute beauty and goodness and greatness,
109 Text |       beautiful other than absolute beauty should there be such, that
110 Text |             it partakes of absolute beauty—and I should say the same
111 Text |           such thing is a source of beauty, I leave all that, which
112 Text |       presence and participation of beauty in whatever way or manner
113 Text |             stoutly contend that by beauty all beautiful things become
114 Text |           may safely reply, That by beauty beautiful things become


Phaedrus
    Part
115 Intro|     Phaedrus is captivated with the beauty of the periods, and wants
116 Intro|           the enjoyment of personal beauty. And this is the master
117 Intro|         upper world—there to behold beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the
118 Intro|         when he beholds the visible beauty of earth his enraptured
119 Intro|      keenest of our senses, because beauty, alone of the ideas, has
120 Intro|           excited by this vision of beauty, rushes on to enjoy, and
121 Intro|          love or the inspiration of beauty and knowledge, which is
122 Intro|           that, even as to personal beauty, her place was taken by
123 Intro|            into a scene of heavenly beauty; a divine idea would accompany
124 Intro|            she beholds the flashing beauty of the beloved. But before
125 Intro|           Once more, in speaking of beauty is he really thinking of
126 Intro|          not rather of an imaginary beauty, of a sort which extinguishes
127 Intro|             vulgar love,—a heavenly beauty like that which flashed
128 Intro|             in some form of visible beauty, like the absolute purity
129 Intro|           of the Dialogue, ‘Give me beauty in the inward soul, and
130 Intro|           just been cited, ‘Give me beauty,’ etc.; or ‘the great name
131 Intro|   literature. There was no sense of beauty either in language or in
132 Text |            away to the enjoyment of beauty, and especially of personal
133 Text |          and especially of personal beauty, by the desires which are
134 Text |             the gods. The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the
135 Text |           him who, when he sees the beauty of earth, is transported
136 Text |            recollection of the true beauty; he would like to fly away,
137 Text |             the happy band they saw beauty shining in brightness,—we
138 Text |            have passed away.~But of beauty, I repeat again that we
139 Text |            this is the privilege of beauty, that being the loveliest
140 Text |          world to the sight of true beauty in the other; he looks only
141 Text |            the expression of divine beauty; and at first a shudder
142 Text |           receives the effluence of beauty through the eyes, the wing
143 Text |        beginning to grow wings, the beauty of the beloved meets her
144 Text |          and at the recollection of beauty is again delighted. And
145 Text |            herself in the waters of beauty, her constraint is loosened,
146 Text |          his love from the ranks of beauty according to his character,
147 Text |             and behold the flashing beauty of the beloved; which when
148 Text |       memory is carried to the true beauty, whom he beholds in company
149 Text |         came, so does the stream of beauty, passing through the eyes
150 Text |             eight days appearing in beauty? at least he would do so,
151 Text |           haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and


Philebus
    Part
152 Intro|          three criteria of goodness—beauty, symmetry, truth. These
153 Intro|           class we find the idea of beauty. Good, when exhibited under
154 Intro|        measure or symmetry, becomes beauty. And if we translate his
155 Intro|           Republic, Plato conceives beauty under the idea of proportion.~
156 Intro|             Timaeus, like the ideal beauty in the Symposium or the
157 Intro|          manifested in symmetry and beauty everywhere, in the order
158 Intro|         temperate seasons, harmony, beauty, and the like. The goddess
159 Intro|            the like. The goddess of beauty saw the universal wantonness
160 Intro|          The pleasures derived from beauty of form, colour, sound,
161 Intro|       elements—truth, symmetry, and beauty. These will be the criterion
162 Intro|             than pleasure.~Which of beauty? Once more, wisdom; for
163 Intro|             goods of life.~Fifthly, beauty and happiness,—the inward
164 Text |            is one, or ox is one, or beauty one, or the good one, then
165 Text |      thousand other things, such as beauty and health and strength,
166 Text |           wonderful in quantity and beauty, and in every power that
167 Text |      enumerated—the vain conceit of beauty, of wisdom, and of wealth,
168 Text |            those which are given by beauty of colour and form, and
169 Text |           plainer. I do not mean by beauty of form such beauty as that
170 Text |         mean by beauty of form such beauty as that of animals or pictures,
171 Text |            measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue all the world
172 Text |        three we may catch our prey; Beauty, Symmetry, Truth are the
173 Text |     PROTARCHUS: You are speaking of beauty, truth, and measure?~SOCRATES:
174 Text |             mind a greater share of beauty than pleasure, and is mind


The Republic
    Book
175 2    |       deficient either in virtue or beauty. ~Very true, Adeimantus;
176 3    |           on the style? ~Yes. ~Then beauty of style and harmony and
177 3    |             good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works,
178 3    |      likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason. ~There can be
179 3    |      Whereas true love is a love of beauty and order-temperate and
180 3    |            music if not the love of beauty? ~I agree, he said. ~After
181 4    |           virtue is the health, and beauty, and well-being of the soul,
182 5    |         than to be a deceiver about beauty, or goodness, or justice,
183 5    |             will not be a vision of beauty, any more than the enthusiastic
184 5    |            proposition? ~That since beauty is the opposite of ugliness,
185 5    |           seeing or loving absolute beauty. ~True, he replied. ~Few
186 5    |            has no sense of absolute beauty, or who, if another lead
187 5    |          him to a knowledge of that beauty is unable to follow-of such
188 5    |           the existence of absolute beauty and is able to distinguish
189 5    |             or unchangeable idea of beauty -in whose opinion the beautiful
190 5    |            yet neither see absolute beauty, nor can follow any guide
191 5    |           the existence of absolute beauty. ~Yes, I remember. ~Shall
192 6    |             to order the laws about beauty, goodness, justice in this,
193 6    |           the existence of absolute beauty rather than of the many
194 6    |             at absolute justice and beauty and temperance, and again
195 6    |           see them in their perfect beauty must take a longer and more
196 6    |            may appear in their full beauty and utmost clearness, how
197 6    |             we have no knowledge of beauty and goodness? ~Assuredly
198 6    |          tell you of brightness and beauty? ~Still, I must implore
199 6    |            And there is an absolute beauty and an absolute good, and
200 6    |           higher. ~What a wonder of beauty that must be, he said, which
201 6    |           and yet surpasses them in beauty; for you surely cannot mean
202 7    |             higher knowledge; their beauty is like the beauty of figures
203 7    |            their beauty is like the beauty of figures or pictures excellently
204 7    |          our governors faultless in beauty. ~Yes, I said, Glaucon,
205 8    |         used to play amid things of beauty and make of them a joy and
206 9    |            propriety of life and in beauty and virtue? ~Immeasurably
207 9    |            is by receiving gifts of beauty, strength, and health, in
208 10   |               And the excellence or beauty or truth of every structure,
209 10   |          understanding-there is the beauty of them-and the apparent
210 10   |       original purity; and then her beauty will be revealed, and justice
211 10   |            visions of inconceivable beauty. The story, Glaucon, would
212 10   |           famous for their form and beauty as well as for their strength
213 10   |             know what the effect of beauty is when combined with poverty


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
214 Pre  |             power over language, or beauty of style; and there is a


The Sophist
    Part
215 Intro|             of sense to the idea of beauty and good. Mind is in motion


The Statesman
    Part
216 Intro|    Statesman has lost the grace and beauty of the earlier dialogues.
217 Intro|       quickly returned to youth and beauty. The white locks of the
218 Intro|             which there would be no beauty and no art, whether the
219 Text |       action; and the excellence or beauty of every work of art is


The Symposium
    Part
220 Intro|         style and subject, having a beauty ‘as of a statue,’ while
221 Intro|           birth. And love is not of beauty only, but of birth in beauty;
222 Intro|        beauty only, but of birth in beauty; this is the principle of
223 Intro|             a mortal creature. When beauty approaches, then the conceiving
224 Intro|            beautiful minds, and the beauty of laws and institutions,
225 Intro|         until he perceives that all beauty is of one kindred; and from
226 Intro|         single science of universal beauty, and then he will behold
227 Intro|             leaven, and will behold beauty, not with the bodily eye,
228 Intro| incidentally that love is always of beauty, which Socrates afterwards
229 Intro|            Agathon, that love is of beauty, not however of beauty only,
230 Intro|           of beauty, not however of beauty only, but of birth in beauty.
231 Intro|        beauty only, but of birth in beauty. As it would be out of character
232 Intro|             himself. For he who has beauty or good may desire more
233 Intro|             of them; and he who has beauty or good in himself may desire
234 Intro|          good in himself may desire beauty and good in others. The
235 Intro|          abstract ideas of good and beauty, which do not admit of degrees,
236 Intro|           satisfied, in the perfect beauty of eternal knowledge, beginning
237 Intro|       knowledge, beginning with the beauty of earthly things, and at
238 Intro|              and at last reaching a beauty in which all existence is
239 Intro|             same in both. The ideal beauty of the one is the ideal
240 Intro|          respectively the source of beauty and the source of good in
241 Intro|         pass from images of visible beauty (Greek), and from the hypotheses
242 Intro|      faculties.~The divine image of beauty which resides within Socrates
243 Intro|             progress (Symp.) by the beauty of young men and boys, which
244 Intro|         enthusiasm for the ideal of beauty—a worship as of some godlike
245 Intro|           and modesty as well as of beauty, the one being the expression
246 Intro|            at the perfect vision of beauty, not relative or changing,
247 Intro|             in the sea of light and beauty or retains his personality.
248 Intro|           to have attained the true beauty or good, without enquiring
249 Text |          and abides. Concerning the beauty of the god I have said enough;
250 Text |             of the gods—the love of beauty, as is evident, for with
251 Text |          especially struck with the beauty of the concluding words—
252 Text |           true, Love is the love of beauty and not of deformity?~He
253 Text |         Then Love wants and has not beauty?~Certainly, he replied.~
254 Text |          wants and does not possess beauty?~Certainly not.~Then would
255 Text |          given by the possession of beauty?’ ‘To what you have asked,’
256 Text |            have in view is birth in beauty, whether of body or soul.’ ‘
257 Text |        procreation which must be in beauty and not in deformity; and
258 Text |           the beautiful harmonious. Beauty, then, is the destiny or
259 Text |         therefore, when approaching beauty, the conceiving power is
260 Text |           flutter and ecstasy about beauty whose approach is the alleviation
261 Text |          generation and of birth in beauty.’ ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Yes, indeed,’
262 Text |            He wanders about seeking beauty that he may beget offspring—
263 Text |           himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the
264 Text |             one form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if
265 Text |             of another; and then if beauty of form in general is his
266 Text |           not to recognize that the beauty in every form is and the
267 Text |           he will consider that the beauty of the mind is more honourable
268 Text |            more honourable than the beauty of the outward form. So
269 Text |             contemplate and see the beauty of institutions and laws,
270 Text |          and to understand that the beauty of them all is of one family,
271 Text |           family, and that personal beauty is a trifle; and after laws
272 Text |     sciences, that he may see their beauty, being not like a servant
273 Text |            servant in love with the beauty of one youth or man or institution,
274 Text |       contemplating the vast sea of beauty, he will create many fair
275 Text |             which is the science of beauty everywhere. To this I will
276 Text |       perceive a nature of wondrous beauty (and this, Socrates, is
277 Text |             in any other place; but beauty absolute, separate, simple,
278 Text |             begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end.
279 Text |          for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only,
280 Text |           at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what
281 Text |           knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear Socrates,’
282 Text |             in the contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which
283 Text | contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once beheld,
284 Text |            had eyes to see the true beauty—the divine beauty, I mean,
285 Text |          the true beauty—the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear
286 Text |      holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine? Remember
287 Text |           communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
288 Text |          bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has
289 Text |      residing within! Know you that beauty and wealth and honour, at
290 Text |          images of such fascinating beauty that I was ready to do in
291 Text |           seriously enamoured of my beauty, and I thought that I should
292 Text |            must see in me some rare beauty of a kind infinitely higher
293 Text |             with me and to exchange beauty for beauty, you will have
294 Text |          and to exchange beauty for beauty, you will have greatly the
295 Text |           of me; you will gain true beauty in return for appearance—
296 Text |       derisive and disdainful of my beauty—which really, as I fancied,


Theaetetus
    Part
297 Intro|           This a little impairs the beauty of Socrates’ remark, that ‘
298 Intro|         become acquainted. He is no beauty, and therefore you need
299 Text |         attention. If he had been a beauty I should have been afraid
300 Text |         love with him; but he is no beauty, and you must not be offended
301 Text |         things.~SOCRATES: You are a beauty, Theaetetus, and not ugly,


Timaeus
    Part
302 Intro|              Nothing can exceed the beauty or art of the introduction,
303 Intro|            with the more harmonious beauty of a similar passage in
304 Text |            of bodies which excel in beauty, and then we shall be able