The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|     whole life has been spent in doing them good, should at least
  2 Intro|    spirit in which he goes about doing good only in vindication
  3 Text |      strange which you have been doing? All these rumours and this
  4 Text |           I should have left off doing what I only did unintentionally—
  5 Text |      only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right
  6 Text |          in doing anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the
  7 Text |       and that if you are caught doing so again you shall die;—
  8 Text |       not agree. For the evil of doing as he is doing—the evil
  9 Text |       the evil of doing as he is doing—the evil of unjustly taking
 10 Text |       these years, and have been doing yours, coming to you individually
 11 Text |       have been some sense in my doing so; but now, as you will
 12 Text |         did not frighten me into doing wrong; and when we came
 13 Text |        lamenting, and saying and doing many things which you have


Charmides
    Part
 14 Intro|       the author: ‘Temperance is doing one’s own business.’ But
 15 Intro|     temperate, and yet he is not doing his own business; and temperance
 16 Intro|     answer between ‘making’ and ‘doing,’ and with the help of a
 17 Intro|     Hesiod assigns to the words ‘doing’ and ‘work’ an exclusively
 18 Intro|        good sense: Temperance is doing one’s own business;—(4)
 19 Intro|       one’s own business;—(4) is doing good.~Still an element of
 20 Intro|       notion that temperance is ‘doing one’s own business,’ which
 21 Intro|       definition, ‘Temperance is doing one’s own business,’ is
 22 Intro|        to be quietness, modesty, doing our own business, the doing
 23 Intro|      doing our own business, the doing of good actions, the dialogue
 24 Text |        he thought temperance was doing things orderly and quietly,
 25 Text |        said, ‘That temperance is doing our own business.’ Was he
 26 Text |       example, to be regarded as doing nothing when he reads or
 27 Text |         rather think that he was doing something.~And does the
 28 Text |          writing are the same as doing, you were doing what was
 29 Text |          same as doing, you were doing what was not your own business?~
 30 Text |         But they are the same as doing.~And the healing art, my
 31 Text |       building, and weaving, and doing anything whatever which
 32 Text |   clearly come under the head of doing?~Certainly.~And do you think
 33 Text |      this principle of every one doing and performing his own,
 34 Text |  temperance, I said, will not be doing one’s own business; not
 35 Text |         at least in this way, or doing things of this sort?~Clearly
 36 Text |         that temperance is a man doing his own business had another
 37 Text |        the meaning of the words ‘doing his own business.’~I dare
 38 Text |          is the meaning of a man doing his own business? Can you
 39 Text |       definition of temperance, ‘doing one’s own business,’ and
 40 Text |          do you mean to say that doing and making are not the same?~
 41 Text |         had meant by working and doing such things as you were
 42 Text |        distinguished making from doing and work; and, while admitting
 43 Text |   plainer. Do you mean that this doing or making, or whatever is
 44 Text |         in plain words to be the doing of good actions.~And you
 45 Text |  craftsmen might be temperate in doing another’s work, as well
 46 Text |    another’s work, as well as in doing their own?~I was, he replied;
 47 Text |          by the work which he is doing?~I suppose not.~Then, I
 48 Text |          know what he is himself doing, and yet, in doing good,
 49 Text |       himself doing, and yet, in doing good, as you say, he has
 50 Text |          Then, as would seem, in doing good, he may act wisely
 51 Text |     aware: and that you are only doing what you denied that you
 52 Text |         you denied that you were doing just now, trying to refute
 53 Text |      obtain from their severally doing the things which they knew,


Cratylus
    Part
 54 Intro|   principle of beauty; and which doing the works of beauty, is
 55 Intro|          of others, unless by so doing he becomes unintelligible.


Crito
    Part
 56 Text |     ought not to do wrong, or is doing wrong always evil and dishonorable,
 57 Text |  Socrates.~SOCRATES: And what of doing evil in return for evil,
 58 Text |          Not just.~SOCRATES: For doing evil to another is the same
 59 Text |          to do to us what we are doing to you. Would you have any
 60 Text |       are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave
 61 Text |          servant of all men; and doing what?—eating and drinking


Euthydemus
    Part
 62 Text |       what the two strangers are doing with you; they are only
 63 Text |        be better off, having and doing many things without wisdom,
 64 Text |         any one to be blamed for doing any honourable service or
 65 Text |           they do something.~And doing is making?~Yes.~And speaking
 66 Text |     making?~Yes.~And speaking is doing and making?~He agreed.~Then
 67 Text |          what is not he would be doing something; and you have
 68 Text |          and say nothing—you are doing so.~And may there not be


Euthyphro
    Part
 69 Intro|           replies: That piety is doing as I do, prosecuting your
 70 Intro|           on a charge of murder; doing as the gods do—as Zeus did
 71 Intro|      question, ‘What is piety?’ ‘Doing as I do, charging a father
 72 Intro|        want; in short, a mode of doing business between gods and
 73 Intro|       elicit from him. ‘Piety is doing as I do’ is the idea of
 74 Text |       Socrates? and what are you doing in the Porch of the King
 75 Text |       afraid lest you too may be doing an impious thing in bringing
 76 Text |     impiety?~EUTHYPHRO: Piety is doing as I am doing; that is to
 77 Text |           Piety is doing as I am doing; that is to say, prosecuting
 78 Text |         asked, you only replied, Doing as you do, charging your
 79 Text |    father you may very likely be doing what is agreeable to Zeus
 80 Text |       which gods and men have of doing business with one another?~
 81 Text |          have run such a risk of doing wrong in the sight of the


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 82 Intro|         and then in each of them doing his own separate work, is
 83 Text |         one who argues as we are doing, and the orator who is addressing
 84 Text |         that we know what we are doing?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 85 Text |          and not, as you are now doing, to your fellow combatants?
 86 Text |          SOCRATES: When they are doing something or nothing?~ALCIBIADES:
 87 Text |        ALCIBIADES: When they are doing something, I should say.~
 88 Text |         And when individuals are doing their own work, are they
 89 Text |         their own work, are they doing what is just or unjust?~
 90 Text |         will not know what he is doing?~ALCIBIADES: He will not.~


Gorgias
    Part
 91 Intro|         is contained in it, that doing wrong is worse than suffering,
 92 Intro|         to prevent him from ever doing wrong. Polus is naturally
 93 Intro|         pain or in hurt. But the doing cannot exceed the suffering
 94 Intro|        must exceed in hurt. Thus doing is proved by the testimony
 95 Intro|          down, and all of us are doing the opposite of what we
 96 Intro|  opposite of what we ought to be doing.~Socrates replies in a style
 97 Intro|       have not the same power of doing injustice. Sisyphus and
 98 Intro|        better to suffer for well doing than for evil doing.’—1
 99 Intro|         well doing than for evil doing.’—1 Pet.~And the Sermon
100 Intro|       better to suffer for wrong doing than not to suffer.~There
101 Intro|         advantage over us—we are doing not what we will, but what
102 Intro|         much and have overvalued doing. But the habits and discipline
103 Intro|         if they are conscious of doing evil, they must learn to
104 Text |    Gorgias, as we are at present doing, and reserve for another
105 Text |         most part concerned with doing, and require little or no
106 Text |         will that which they are doing at the time; for who would
107 Text |         did we not admit that in doing something for the sake of
108 Text |        like to have the power of doing what seemed good to you
109 Text |        very well be, inasmuch as doing injustice is the greatest
110 Text |        said before, the power of doing whatever seems good to you
111 Text |       state, killing, banishing, doing in all things as you like.~
112 Text |       you believe that this mere doing as you think best is great
113 Text |        POLUS: Certainly not such doing as this.~SOCRATES: But can
114 Text |       you will, and not weary of doing good to a friend.~POLUS:
115 Text |          a man who is unjust and doing injustice can be happy,
116 Text |        continue all through life doing what he likes and holding
117 Text |         you just now made, about doing and suffering wrong? Did
118 Text |         wrong was more evil, and doing wrong more disgraceful?~
119 Text |          did.~SOCRATES: Then, if doing wrong is more disgraceful
120 Text |          us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the
121 Text |      POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: Then doing injustice will have an excess
122 Text |          that injustice, and the doing of injustice, is the greatest
123 Text |         to guard himself against doing wrong, for he will thereby
124 Text |        of his friends who may be doing wrong; he should bring to
125 Text |      upside down; and are we not doing, as would appear, in everything
126 Text |  opposite of what we ought to be doing?~SOCRATES: O Callicles,
127 Text |       this very discussion about doing and suffering injustice.
128 Text |         Makes might to be right, doing violence with highest hand;
129 Text |         words, and hereafter not doing that to which I assented,
130 Text |        Why, that is what you are doing too, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
131 Text |       SOCRATES: Then we are both doing wrong. Still, my dear friend,
132 Text |       ought to be prevented from doing anything which does not
133 Text |         are these two evils, the doing injustice and the suffering
134 Text |       advantages, the one of not doing and the other of not suffering
135 Text |           And what do you say of doing injustice? Is the will only
136 Text |       will that prevent him from doing injustice, or must he have
137 Text |         will he also escape from doing injury? Must not the very
138 Text |          no airs or pretences of doing anything extraordinary,
139 Text |        or the currier; and in so doing, being such as he is, he
140 Text |         is just what you are now doing. You praise the men who
141 Text |      itself, but he is afraid of doing wrong. For to go to the


Laches
    Part
142 Text |      which we are, or have been, doing: he who does not fly from
143 Text |        to prove that I have been doing the same.~LACHES: Very true,
144 Text |     might have been reason in so doing; but why should a man deck


Laws
    Book
145 1    |         that is just what we are doing in this discussion. At the
146 1    |         in cultivated spots, and doing mischief, were to censure
147 1    |    fortune will he be saved from doing some great evil.~Cleinias.
148 1    |          for drinking instead of doing all we can to avoid it?~
149 2    |        shall we say that the not–doing of wrong and there being
150 2    |     pleasure in it, and that the doing wrong is pleasant, but evil
151 2    |      this I term amusement, when doing neither harm nor good in
152 2    |        ignorant of what they are doing. Now every melody is right
153 3    |       combined with the power of doing in the whole world, Hellenic
154 3    |          that he or the state is doing an unholy and unpatriotic
155 4    |         his fortune to the dead. Doing this, and living after this
156 5    |         greatest penalty of evil–doing—namely, to grow into the
157 5    |          hears one of themselves doing or saying anything disgraceful;
158 5    |          but hinders others from doing any; the first may count
159 6    |       order to prevent them from doing any harm to the country
160 6    |        provide against the rains doing harm instead of good to
161 6    |        exact; and if he fails in doing so, let him be answerable
162 6    |      their mind to what they are doing, but when they do not give
163 7    |          some suitable method of doing so. But what do I mean?
164 7    |       have seen the sun and moon doing what we all know that they
165 8    |          should not be found out doing anything of the sort. Concealment
166 8    |          to prevent any one from doing any in dealings between
167 9    |        about laws, as we are now doing, is giving the citizens
168 9    |      many murders. When a man is doing or has done something which
169 9    |        one should know him to be doing or to have done, he will
170 9    |         brethren or wife who are doing no wrong, he shall assuredly
171 10   |       unrighteous acts, but upon doing them and atoning for them.
172 11   |         shall have the honour of doing rightly, and he who informs
173 11   |    informs not, the dishonour of doing wrongly; and if he be a
174 11   |      others knows not what he is doing, either as regards the body (
175 11   |         abate much of their evil–doing. Having an eye to all these
176 11   |    blameless; but if he fails in doing so, he shall not claim the
177 12   |          of violence, that he is doing nothing base, but only what
178 12   |         for to know which we are doing, and to stand fast by our
179 12   |          end does not consist in doing something or acquiring something


Lysis
    Part
180 Text |    rebuke you or hinder you from doing what you desire?~Yes, indeed,
181 Text |        which they hinder me from doing.~What do you mean? I said.
182 Text |          and yet hinder you from doing what you like? for example,
183 Text |        you from being happy, and doing as you like?—keeping you
184 Text |         another, and, in a word, doing nothing which you desire;


Menexenus
    Part
185 Text |  SOCRATES: And what might you be doing at the Council? And yet
186 Text |         came upon us was our own doing. We were never conquered


Meno
    Part
187 Text | Aristippus. And this is Gorgias’ doing; for when he came there,
188 Text |       admissions, that virtue is doing what you do with a part
189 Text |       and we were quite right in doing so.~SOCRATES: But then,


Parmenides
    Part
190 Intro|          to be an irreverence in doing so. About the Divine Being


Phaedo
    Part
191 Text |         me do what I was already doing, in the same way that the
192 Text |          of pleasures and pains, doing a work only to be undone
193 Text |          discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite— leading
194 Text |      Odyssee represents Odysseus doing in the words—~‘He beat his
195 Text |       out what state of being or doing or suffering was best for


Phaedrus
    Part
196 Intro|          because he is afraid of doing injustice to Anacreon and
197 Intro|     which he may seem also to be doing an injustice to himself.
198 Text |       before he knows what he is doing?~PHAEDRUS: He is close at
199 Text |      gods are passing, every one doing his own work; he may follow
200 Text |          plaintiff and defendant doing in a law court— are they
201 Text |           as you and I have been doing, to the authors of such


Philebus
    Part
202 Intro|         they knew what they were doing, or, in the language of
203 Intro|          nature. The pleasure of doing good to others and of bodily
204 Intro|     without a reward. It is not ‘doing the will of God for the
205 Intro|          eternal happiness,’ but doing the will of God because
206 Intro|     philanthropist under that of doing good, the quietist under
207 Intro|         loving the truth, and of doing all things for the sake
208 Intro|         conscious of what we are doing or of what happens to us,’
209 Text |          he may argue, as we are doing, that pleasures are oftener
210 Text |         loving the truth, and of doing all things for the sake


Protagoras
    Part
211 Text |    whether you know what you are doing?~And what am I doing?~You
212 Text |         are doing?~And what am I doing?~You are going to commit
213 Text |   punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again. He punishes
214 Text |   condition of their learning or doing anything else, and if he
215 Text |         sense is good counsel in doing injustice?~Granted.~If they
216 Text |       the bad.’~But what sort of doing is good in letters? and
217 Text |        letters? and what sort of doing makes a man good in letters?
218 Text | individuals can by any amount of doing ill become physicians, any
219 Text |         that sort; and he who by doing ill cannot become a physician
220 Text |          accident (the only real doing ill is to be deprived of
221 Text |          happiness to consist in doing or choosing the greater,
222 Text |          the greater, and in not doing or in avoiding the less,


The Republic
    Book
223 1    |        that I should be right in doing so, any more than they would
224 1    |       case they will be right in doing good to the evil and evil
225 1    |          to say that justice is "doing good to your friends and
226 1    |  yielding to one another and not doing our utmost to get at the
227 1    |          The various arts may be doing their own business and benefiting
228 1    |          the choice of saying or doing more than another man who
229 2    |    becoming invisible, and never doing any wrong or touching what
230 2    |         we must allow him, while doing the most unjust acts, to
231 2    |         to keep one another from doing wrong, but everyone would
232 2    |        must follow up what he is doing, and make the business his
233 2    |         of crimes he is far from doing anything outrageous; and
234 4    |          not of citizens who are doing their duty to the State.
235 4    |       that is just what they are doing. ~I conceive, I said, that
236 4    |        affirmed that Justice was doing one's own business, and
237 4    |     quality, I mean, of everyone doing his own work, and not being
238 4    |    admitted to be the having and doing what is a man's own, and
239 4    |        Suppose a carpenter to be doing the business of a cobbler,
240 4    |         or the same person to be doing the work of both, or whatever
241 4    |        each of the three classes doing the work of its own class? ~
242 4    |         that each part of him is doing its own business, whether
243 4    |       rest of the citizens to be doing each his own business, and
244 5    |        You know not what you are doing in thus assailing me: What
245 5    |         me tell you that you are doing just the reverse; the encouragement
246 5    |       way which they have of not doing much good to a capacity
247 5    |          with the men? And in so doing they will do what is best,
248 5    |        wine? Do you not see them doing the same? They are glad
249 6    |      throw away his life without doing any good either to himself
250 6    |    describe as you were just now doing their character and profession,
251 8    |         a State, as we have been doing, must go to a democracy
252 8    |         lips? ~That is what I am doing, I replied; and I must add
253 8    |          see clearly what we are doing, let us imagine democracy
254 9    |       whole) is least capable of doing what she desires; there
255 10   |       imitation in general, when doing their own proper work, are
256 10   |          will not mind saying or doing many things which he would
257 10   |          admiring another who is doing that which any one of us


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
258 Text |        foolishly praying for and doing things which would not really


The Seventh Letter
    Part
259 Text |         them out in practice. In doing this I seem to have been
260 Text |      plainly and obviously I was doing no wrong, but was the party
261 Text |      that I could do any good by doing so. This is the history


The Sophist
    Part
262 Intro|       that being is the power of doing or suffering. Then we turn
263 Intro|        participation’ a power of doing or suffering? To this they
264 Intro|         easily find a reason for doing what he likes (Wallace).
265 Text |       that we should be wrong in doing so.~STRANGER: But how can
266 Text |           STRANGER: Any power of doing or suffering in a degree
267 Text |        and say that the power of doing or suffering is confined
268 Text |          knowing and being known doing or suffering, or both, or
269 Text |           or both, or is the one doing and the other suffering,


The Statesman
    Part
270 Text |       world is the instrument of doing something. But there is
271 Text |      knowledge of what they were doing, they would imitate the
272 Text |         a peaceful life, quietly doing their own business; this


The Symposium
    Part
273 Intro|        to be seen by the beloved doing or suffering any cowardly
274 Text |   because you think that you are doing something when in reality
275 Text |          when in reality you are doing nothing. And I dare say
276 Text |         lover who is detected in doing any dishonourable act, or
277 Text |   example, that which we are now doing, drinking, singing and talking—
278 Text |     neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable;
279 Text |       thinks that he is right in doing any service which he can
280 Text |        you thought that you were doing something disgraceful in
281 Text |   creation of the animals is his doing? Are they not all the works
282 Text |       the pursuit? what are they doing who show all this eagerness


Theaetetus
    Part
283 Intro|        As he is very desirous of doing justice to Protagoras, he
284 Intro|        of what we were saying or doing a few weeks or a few months
285 Intro|   perhaps thought that they were doing, a great deal more.~The
286 Text |        writing, but have put off doing so; and now, why should
287 Text |      argue, as you were just now doing, from the customary use
288 Text |          begins again, as we are doing now, caring not whether
289 Text |           not only of what he is doing, but he hardly knows whether
290 Text |         ourselves, as if we were doing geometrical problem.~SOCRATES:
291 Text |          slightest necessity for doing so. Were not you and Theodorus


Timaeus
    Part
292 Text | ourselves who are upon the earth doing precisely the same thing.
293 Text | unpleasant sight, and also, when doing its share of work, is much