The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|            to live with them. This surely cannot be intentional; and
  2 Intro|           if not themselves) might surely come into court and witness
  3 Intro|        youth their relations would surely have witnessed against him,
  4 Text |          have inflicted on me will surely await you. Me you have killed
  5 Text |           the customary sign would surely have opposed me had I been


Charmides
    Part
  6 Text |         opinion.~Well, I said; but surely you would agree with Homer
  7 Text |        general?~Certainly not.~But surely we are assuming a science
  8 Text |          sway over other sciences, surely she will have this particular


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|            rest of the world? But, surely, there is in words a true
 10 Text |       first imposers of names must surely have been considerable persons;
 11 Text |     Socrates, as an Athenian, will surely not forget; there are also
 12 Text |        Phaeos istora)?~HERMOGENES: Surely.~SOCRATES: Ephaistos is
 13 Text |          Very true.~SOCRATES: Then surely Pan, who is the declarer
 14 Text |         you call them?~HERMOGENES: Surely, we must not leave off until
 15 Text |       generation of things is most surely indicated.~HERMOGENES: No,
 16 Text |   tethelenai).~HERMOGENES: That is surely probable.~SOCRATES: Yes;
 17 Text |            rho inserted? This must surely be the addition of some
 18 Text |           being names.~HERMOGENES: Surely.~SOCRATES: But the secondary,
 19 Text |           you.~CRATYLUS: Well, but surely, Hermogenes, you do not
 20 Text |          or he may be bad; it must surely be so if our former admissions
 21 Text |          one of us?~CRATYLUS: Nay, surely there is a significance
 22 Text |           in thinking that he must surely have known; or else, as


Crito
    Part
 23 Text |        order to save you, we ought surely to run this, or even a greater
 24 Text |             may we do evil?~CRITO: Surely not, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
 25 Text |       Would that be decent of you? Surely not. But if you go away


Euthydemus
    Part
 26 Text |            of this, and I replied: Surely wisdom is good-fortune;
 27 Text |         Nothing else, he said.~And surely, in the manufacture of vessels,
 28 Text |           same thing? Then we must surely be speaking the same thing?~
 29 Text |          The art of the general is surely an art of hunting mankind.~
 30 Text |           Certainly.~SOCRATES: And surely it ought to do us some good?~
 31 Text |         not to ask again.~Why, you surely have some notion of my meaning,
 32 Text |           and the other other; for surely the other is not the same;
 33 Text |         expression which he used. ‘Surely,’ I said, ‘philosophy is


Euthyphro
    Part
 34 Text |          Porch of the King Archon? Surely you cannot be concerned
 35 Text |         who is not a relation; for surely the pollution is the same
 36 Text |            is done among them. For surely neither God nor man will
 37 Text |           accomplish? For you must surely know if, as you say, you


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 38 Text |            propose to advise them? Surely not about building?~ALCIBIADES:
 39 Text |            tell.~SOCRATES: But you surely know what are the charges
 40 Text |         did you discover them—not, surely, at the time when you thought
 41 Text |          ever so much opposed, you surely do not imagine that you
 42 Text |       Socrates?~SOCRATES: Why, you surely know that our city goes
 43 Text |           the city.~SOCRATES: Not, surely, over horses?~ALCIBIADES:
 44 Text |        perhaps, be sufficient; for surely there is nothing which may


Gorgias
    Part
 45 Intro|        condemned him to death. Yet surely he would be a bad tamer
 46 Intro|         taught the city better! He surely cannot blame the state for
 47 Text | rhetorician be taken into counsel? Surely not. For at every election
 48 Text |            banished from the city;—surely not. For they taught their
 49 Text |          and skill, his instructor surely ought not on that account
 50 Text |           the inference.~SOCRATES: Surely, then, the just man will
 51 Text |          say so still.~POLUS: Then surely they do as they will?~SOCRATES:
 52 Text |      because you will not; for you surely must think as I do.~SOCRATES:
 53 Text |           soul is improved.~POLUS: Surely.~SOCRATES: Then he who is
 54 Text |       SOCRATES: Yes; for happiness surely does not consist in being
 55 Text |            what you meant; for you surely do not think that two men
 56 Text |     happiest of all.~SOCRATES: But surely life according to your view
 57 Text |          be sure.~SOCRATES: But he surely cannot have the same eyes
 58 Text |          not.~SOCRATES: That would surely be marvellous and absurd?~
 59 Text |      CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES: But surely the wise and brave are the
 60 Text |           I cannot.~SOCRATES: Yet, surely, Callicles, if you look
 61 Text |           will he be unjust still? Surely you might say, Callicles,
 62 Text |          indeed.~SOCRATES: And yet surely swimming saves a man from
 63 Text |    buildings or none at all, then, surely, it would be ridiculous
 64 Text |           public man? Nay, we have surely said so; for if you will
 65 Text |            badness?~SOCRATES: Why, surely you would say that he was
 66 Text |          of favour.~CALLICLES: But surely, Socrates, no living man


Ion
    Part
 67 Intro|          any other poet. ‘And yet, surely, he who knows the superior
 68 Text |          better.~SOCRATES: And yet surely, my dear friend Ion, in
 69 Text |       Homer do you speak well?—not surely about every part.~ION: There
 70 Text |          can assure you.~SOCRATES: Surely not about things in Homer
 71 Text |           ION: Yes.~SOCRATES: Yes, surely; for if the subject of knowledge
 72 Text |            SOCRATES: Not all, Ion, surely. Have you already forgotten


Laches
    Part
 73 Text |         latter, Socrates; as would surely be reasonable.~SOCRATES:
 74 Text |         that which we know we must surely be able to tell?~LACHES:
 75 Text |         the braver.~SOCRATES: But, surely, this is a foolish endurance
 76 Text |            by this wisdom; for you surely do not mean the wisdom which
 77 Text |           so, Laches?~LACHES: Why, surely courage is one thing, and


Laws
    Book
 78 1    |    overcome by pain.~Athenian. But surely the lawgivers of Crete and
 79 1    |             What is there which so surely gives victory and safety
 80 2    |        takes pleasure in them will surely become like those in whom
 81 2    |            vice?~Cleinias. That is surely quite unreasonable, and
 82 2    |    necessity live basely? You will surely grant so much?~Cleinias.
 83 2    |         the better soul?~Cleinias. Surely, that of the better soul.~
 84 2    |     Cleinias. They will.~Athenian. Surely then he who would judge
 85 3    |            Athenian. And every man surely likes his own laws best,
 86 3    |           I should reply him, this surely is not contrary to nature,
 87 3    |         legislation, or they would surely not have imagined that oaths
 88 3    |       Certainly not.~Athenian. And surely justice does not grow apart
 89 4    |         that in a storm there must surely be a great advantage in
 90 4    |       doctrine?~Athenian. There is surely no difficulty in seeing,
 91 4    |        plainer.~Athenian. I will:—”Surely,” they say, “the governing
 92 4    |      virtue as possible; this will surely be the aim of the legislator
 93 4    |       ought to say and do, you can surely tell.”~Cleinias. Of course
 94 5    |           intercourse of life. And surely in his relations to the
 95 5    |        will arouse opposition; for surely the artist who is to be
 96 7    |           make such a prayer would surely be too ridiculous.~Cleinias.
 97 8    |      previously by daily practice? Surely, if we were boxers we should
 98 8    |            their original compact:—surely, we will say to them, you
 99 10   |      excellent.~Athenian. You will surely remember our saying that
100 10   |          which we ascribe to them. Surely we should say that to be
101 10   |           most just one.~Athenian. Surely God must not be supposed
102 10   |      neglect can be explained? For surely, when it is impossible for
103 10   |           this also.~Athenian. And surely we three and they two—five
104 10   |       Assuredly not.~Athenian. And surely they are not like charioteers


Lysis
    Part
105 Text |             Socrates, he said; you surely do not attach any importance
106 Text |          is our slave, he replied.~Surely, I said, this is a strange
107 Text |        sake of something?~Yes.~And surely this object must also be
108 Text |        nothing?~Likely enough.~But surely, I said, he who desires,


Meno
    Part
109 Intro|            sons to whom they would surely, if they could have done
110 Intro|          large fortunes; this must surely be a criterion of their
111 Text |      inference.~SOCRATES: And they surely would not have been good
112 Text |   magnanimity, and the like?~MENO: Surely.~SOCRATES: And such of these
113 Text |      teachers and disciples?~MENO: Surely.~SOCRATES: And conversely,
114 Text |            Socrates?~SOCRATES: You surely know, do you not, Anytus,
115 Text |          MENO: True.~SOCRATES: And surely the good man has been acknowledged
116 Text |          MENO: True.~SOCRATES: But surely we acknowledged that there


Parmenides
    Part
117 Intro|            we have in ours.’ ‘Yet, surely, to deprive God of knowledge
118 Text |            the things of men.~Yet, surely, said Socrates, to deprive
119 Text |            and not one?~True.~But, surely, it ought to be one and
120 Text |         same with itself.~How not?~Surely the nature of the one is
121 Text |           be one and also not one.~Surely that is impossible.~And
122 Text |           That is inevitable.~But, surely, the elder is a difference
123 Text |           in a part only?~Yes.~And surely not in all of a part, for
124 Text |        others?~Of course not.~But, surely, that which is must always
125 Text |           be,’ which is ‘now’: for surely in going from the past to
126 Text |   impossible?~Impossible.~And yet, surely, the one was shown to have
127 Text |          changes to motion, it can surely be in no time at all?~How
128 Text |        impossible.~Impossible.~And surely there cannot be a time in
129 Text |        itself one of them, it will surely be a part of itself, which
130 Text |            each other?~Yes.~And we surely cannot say that what is
131 Text |          Clearly.~Further, it must surely in a sort partake of being?~
132 Text |            appears to be true.~But surely if it is nowhere among what
133 Text |         that which is unmoved must surely be at rest, and that which
134 Text |    determine that.~The others must surely be; for if they, like the


Phaedo
    Part
135 Intro|        under their protection; and surely he cannot take better care
136 Intro|           the cause of all things, surely mind must dispose them all
137 Intro|          taken themselves off. But surely there is a great confusion
138 Text |             is not reasonable; for surely no wise man thinks that
139 Text |            he not depart with joy? Surely he will, O my friend, if
140 Text |         because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing.~Very true.~
141 Text |          what you say is true. But surely it requires a great deal
142 Text |         generations is visible—for surely the act of dying is visible?~
143 Text |           act of dying is visible?~Surely, he said.~What then is to
144 Text |         like or unlike, there must surely have been an act of recollection?~
145 Text |          she has to be born again?—Surely the proof which you desire
146 Text |        word of God which will more surely and safely carry him. And
147 Text |          of the body; for you will surely never allow yourself to
148 Text |            And yet, he said, there surely ought to be harmony in a
149 Text |     another?~Not in the least.~Yet surely of two souls, one is said
150 Text |           state inflicts. There is surely a strange confusion of causes
151 Text |        snow?~Yes.~And yet you will surely admit, that when snow, as
152 Text |          my first notion.~Which is surely a correct one, said Simmias.~


Phaedrus
    Part
153 Intro|           eyes of Dante or Bunyan? Surely the latter. But it would
154 Text |         blessing on your head. Yet surely you ought not to be granting
155 Text |          me, then, in silence; for surely the place is holy; so that
156 Text |        lips. For if love be, as he surely is, a divinity, he cannot
157 Text |         fancy, not having seen nor surely known the nature of God,
158 Text |            pleasures of discourse? Surely not for the sake of bodily
159 Text |          music like yourself ought surely to have heard the story
160 Text |    PHAEDRUS: There is a great deal surely to be found in books of
161 Text |           PHAEDRUS: They too would surely laugh at him if he fancies
162 Text |       groping of a blind man. Yet, surely, he who is an artist ought


Philebus
    Part
163 Intro|       eating and drinking; and yet surely we might as well speak of
164 Intro|            greater share of truth? Surely wisdom; for pleasure is
165 Text |          left the field.~SOCRATES: Surely the truth about these matters
166 Text |           that she is one; and yet surely she takes the most varied
167 Text |            some third quality; for surely we are not now simply contending
168 Text |             not some but all would surely choose this third rather
169 Text |          Why, yes, Protarchus; for surely we cannot imagine that of
170 Text |          Nay, Protarchus, we shall surely lose the puzzle if we find
171 Text |            And yet he who desires, surely desires something?~PROTARCHUS:
172 Text |          the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Surely.~SOCRATES: No tedious and
173 Text |            could we?~SOCRATES: And surely pleasure often appears to
174 Text |           termed clownishness, are surely an evil?~PROTARCHUS: To
175 Text |          course.~SOCRATES: And yet surely by far the greatest number
176 Text |           being a generation, must surely be for the sake of some
177 Text |             SOCRATES: And he would surely laugh also at those who
178 Text |           pleasure is.~PROTARCHUS: Surely.~SOCRATES: The fifth class


Protagoras
    Part
179 Text |           between you and him? For surely you cannot have discovered
180 Text |       which he keeps from me.~But, surely, I said, if you give him
181 Text |           is the food of the soul?~Surely, I said, knowledge is the
182 Text |           this gift. Now he cannot surely mean to say that to be good
183 Text |           whom we are speaking are surely madmen.~Then who are the
184 Text |   cowardice?~He nodded assent.~But surely courage, I said, is opposed


The Republic
    Book
185 1    |        would make to us? ~He would surely reply that medicine gives
186 1    |              Yes, Polemarchus, but surely not in the use of money;
187 1    |       really, or only in seeming? ~Surely, he said, a man may be expected
188 1    |          art? ~True, he said. ~But surely, Thrasymachus, the arts
189 1    |         and not as a shepherd. Yet surely the art of the shepherd
190 1    |          And, O my friend, I said, surely the gods are just? ~Granted
191 2    |         truth of your remark. ~And surely this instinct of the dog
192 2    |          from without? ~True. ~But surely God and the things of God
193 3    |           Yes, I replied; but that surely is what ought not to be,
194 3    |       slaves? ~They must not. ~And surely not bad men, whether cowards
195 3    |          for the words, there will surely be no difference between
196 3    |           in the country. ~That is surely the conclusion to be drawn
197 3    |    perpetual aim? ~They must. ~And surely the art of the painter and
198 3    |            Well, he said, that was surely an extraordinary drink to
199 3    |         what is good for him. ~Yet surely, I said, this ferocity only
200 4    |         answer: Sir, you would not surely have us beautify the eyes
201 4    |           and self-sufficing. ~And surely, said he, this is not a
202 4    |          State or individual. ~And surely, I said, we have explained
203 5    |          in the manner described? ~Surely not, he replied. ~That is
204 6    |          next question? he asked. ~Surely, I said, the one which follows
205 6    |          this new light, they will surely change their notion of him,
206 6    |         fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon
207 6    |            whom we have rejected? ~Surely not. ~Then will they still
208 6    |           by nature philosophers? ~Surely no man, he said. ~And when
209 6    |            them in beauty; for you surely cannot mean to say that
210 7    |            compel to be guardians? Surely they will be the men who
211 7    |  contemplation of true being. ~And surely, he said, this occurs notably
212 7    |          we have to learn? For you surely would not regard the skilled
213 7    |     certainly agree with you. ~And surely you would not have the children
214 8    |        against one another. ~That, surely, is at least as bad. ~Another
215 8    |           I should expect so. ~And surely the miser individually will
216 8    |           no external cause. ~Yes, surely. ~And then democracy comes
217 9    |            which he resembles: and surely the resemblance holds? ~
218 9    |            the lover of gain would surely be the most trustworthy? ~
219 9    |      others are a shadow only; and surely this will prove the greatest
220 9    |       being will be less truly and surely satisfied, and will participate
221 10   |           is recorded of him. For, surely, Socrates, Creophylus, the
222 10   |              Most true. ~And this, surely, must be the work of the
223 10   |            who are not harmed), is surely an awful thing? ~Yes, certainly,
224 10   |        this can be proved we shall surely be the gainers-I mean, if
225 10   |        threescore years and ten is surely but a little thing in comparison
226 10   |          affirmed by any man. ~And surely, he replied, no one will
227 10   |          if he is like God he will surely not be neglected by him. ~


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
228 Text |          are speaking of a madman: surely you do not think that any
229 Text |          none of these complaints? Surely, they are not the only maladies
230 Text |            ophthalmia?~ALCIBIADES: Surely not. But I scarcely understand
231 Text |   Certainly not.~SOCRATES: And yet surely I may not suppose that you
232 Text |            best and the useful are surely the same?—~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~
233 Text |          the poet would be at. You surely do not suppose that Homer,
234 Text |           due to their prayer. For surely, as I conceive, the Gods
235 Text |            for them.~SOCRATES: And surely he has a wondrous care for


The Seventh Letter
    Part
236 Text |           reply could I have made? Surely none.~I took my departure,
237 Text |         committed to writing, then surely, not gods, but men “have


The Sophist
    Part
238 Intro|          doubtful.~Now, there must surely be something wrong in the
239 Text |            indeed, you imply, must surely express his nature.~STRANGER:
240 Text |           soul; the other kind you surely understand.~THEAETETUS:
241 Text |            symmetry.~STRANGER: But surely we know that no soul is
242 Text |        which are?~THEAETETUS: Yes, surely number, if anything, has
243 Text |           is nothing but unity, is surely ridiculous?~THEAETETUS:
244 Text |             they do.~STRANGER: But surely that which may be present
245 Text |      THEAETETUS: No.~STRANGER: And surely contend we must in every
246 Text |   THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER: For, surely, either all things have
247 Text |        should say.~STRANGER: Then, surely, he who can divide rightly
248 Text |            STRANGER: Whereas being surely has communion with both
249 Text |      likely we are.~STRANGER: But, surely, motion and rest are neither
250 Text |           true.~STRANGER: Yet they surely both partake of the same
251 Text |            same.~THEAETETUS: Which surely cannot be.~STRANGER: Then
252 Text |          It is not.~STRANGER: Yet, surely, motion is the same, because
253 Text |          make enquiry?~THEAETETUS: Surely we cannot admit that the
254 Text |         not-being.~THEAETETUS: And surely, Stranger, we were quite
255 Text |           where there is falsehood surely there must be deceit.~THEAETETUS:
256 Text |            would imitate you would surely know you and your figure?~


The Statesman
    Part
257 Intro|            of the gods (‘They must surely have known their own ancestors’).
258 Text |      SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER: But surely the science of a true king
259 Text |           should be of one mind is surely a desirable thing?~YOUNG
260 Text |        command about animals. For, surely, the royal science is not
261 Text |            Yes.~STRANGER: There is surely no need to ask which of
262 Text |       human flock?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Surely not.~STRANGER: Had we not
263 Text |           place, Socrates, we must surely notice that a great error
264 Text |   Certainly not.~STRANGER: And yet surely all these arts will maintain
265 Text |            commerce.~STRANGER: But surely men whom we see acting as
266 Text |     knowledge rules, his name will surely be the same—he will be called


The Symposium
    Part
267 Text |           fallen, for Achilles was surely the fairer of the two, fairer
268 Text |  impropriety and evil of them; for surely nothing that is decorously
269 Text |          understood him they would surely have built noble temples
270 Text |          of nothing?~Of something, surely, he replied.~Keep in mind
271 Text |        that of which love is.~Yes, surely.~And does he possess, or
272 Text |            Well,’ I said, ‘Love is surely admitted by all to be a


Theaetetus
    Part
273 Intro|           your statements? And yet surely you and Theodorus had better
274 Intro|            orators and judges. For surely the orator cannot convey
275 Text |         remember. Whereas he moves surely and smoothly and successfully
276 Text |      probability with you, and yet surely you and Theodorus had better
277 Text |          THEAETETUS: Of something, surely.~SOCRATES: Of things learned
278 Text |           is to be allowed at all, surely we must allow it in respect
279 Text |          How can he?~SOCRATES: But surely he cannot suppose what he
280 Text |       opinion; and true opinion is surely unerring, and the results
281 Text |      present view, a syllable must surely be some indivisible form?~
282 Text |           Certainly not.~SOCRATES: Surely I can have no conception
283 Text |         pretty end, for to know is surely to acquire knowledge.~THEAETETUS:


Timaeus
    Part
284 Intro|            gods, as they said; for surely they must have known their
285 Intro|           the men of old time must surely have known the gods who
286 Intro|        connexion between them. But surely the discovery of the New
287 Intro|        what they say—and they must surely have known their own ancestors.
288 Text |        what they say—and they must surely have known their own ancestors.