The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |        will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain
  2 Text |         of implicating as many as possible in their crimes; and then
  3 Text |         of escape which is either possible or honourable; the easiest


Charmides
    Part
  4 PreS |           should retain as far as possible the characteristic qualities
  5 Text |           else, not as quietly as possible, but as quickly as possible?~
  6 Text |       possible, but as quickly as possible?~Yes.~And in the searchings
  7 Text |           whether it is or is not possible for a person to know that
  8 Text |      place, whether, if perfectly possible, such knowledge is of any


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|      which makes such observation possible. What is supposed to be
 10 Intro|         principles of language is possible and may be defended.~The
 11 Intro|          in appreciating, and the possible variety in the order of
 12 Text |         Yes; what other answer is possible?~SOCRATES: Then in a proposition
 13 Text |         be? Is not all that quite possible?~CRATYLUS: I would fain
 14 Text |       that words should as far as possible resemble things; but I fear


Crito
    Part
 15 Text |          no longer practicable or possible; I beseech you therefore,


Euthydemus
    Part
 16 Text |      think, Ctesippus, that it is possible to tell a lie?~Yes, said
 17 Text |           him to drink as much as possible; when he takes his medicine,
 18 Text |        many spears and shields as possible?~Very true, said Ctesippus;
 19 Text |        and always, and as much as possible in himself, and may he not
 20 Text |          a speaking of the silent possible? “The silent” denotes either
 21 Text |         asleep, and that if it be possible to speak and say nothing—


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 22 Intro|         wish to become as good as possible. But to be good in what?
 23 Text |           that secrecy was hardly possible, as you could not have come
 24 Text |       order to preserve as far as possible the purity of the Heracleid
 25 Text |           he may be as shapely as possible; which being their calling,
 26 Text |         not wish to be as good as possible?~ALCIBIADES: We do.~SOCRATES:


Gorgias
    Part
 27 Intro|        avoid intemperance, and if possible escape the necessity of
 28 Intro|          to making men as good as possible. And those who have the
 29 Intro|           the citizens as good as possible. But who would undertake
 30 Intro|     author of them has ‘the least possible power’ while seeming to
 31 Intro|          with truth, may still be possible. Neither is the element
 32 Text |          to make them as short as possible; for a part of my profession
 33 Text |        and tyrants have the least possible power in states, as I was
 34 Text |    wickedness; or, if this is not possible, let him at any rate be
 35 Text |           gold, and the very best possible one to which I might bring
 36 Text |          and have as much seed as possible for his own land?~CALLICLES:
 37 Text |    injustice, and yet there is if possible a greater than this greatest
 38 Text |         not wholly, yet as far as possible? I want to know whether
 39 Text |     contrive to be as like him as possible?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 40 Text |   contrive to do as much wrong as possible, and not be punished?~CALLICLES:
 41 Text |         you may become as like as possible to the Athenian people,
 42 Text |          and make them as good as possible? For we have already discovered
 43 Text |          the Athenians as good as possible; or am I to be the servant
 44 Text |         of men will be as just as possible.’~From this tale, Callicles,


Laws
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 45 1    |          to be quit of as soon as possible?~Cleinias. He would have
 46 1    |        Athenian. And we ought, if possible, to provide them with a
 47 1    |         be framed in the best way possible in states, and that some
 48 1    |    impudence and shamelessness as possible, and to be afraid to say
 49 2    |          me to live as happily as possible? And yet you also never
 50 2    |          should live as justly as possible. Now, here the giver of
 51 3    |          has, that all things, if possible—at any rate, things human—
 52 4    |            Cleinias. It is hardly possible, I admit; and yet, Stranger,
 53 4    |        tyranny.~Cleinias. By what possible arguments, Stranger, can
 54 4    |         to God must, as far as is possible, be like him and such as
 55 4    |    readily persuaded to virtue as possible; this will surely be the
 56 4    |            or as quickly good, as possible. The case of the many proves
 57 5    |  legislator, and abstain in every possible way from the one and practise
 58 5    |    improvement, as far as this is possible. And of all human possessions,
 59 5    |         may leave them as rich as possible. For the possession of great
 60 5    |        live a true man as long as possible, for then he can be trusted;
 61 5    |          live in the happiest way possible? Let us say that the temperate
 62 5    |         whole of number has every possible division, and the number
 63 5    |        utmost—whether all this is possible or not, I say that no man,
 64 5    |           as great and as rich as possible, and should possess gold
 65 5    |        city the best and happiest possible. But they do not see that
 66 5    |          some of these things are possible, and some of them are impossible;
 67 5    |         state will desire what is possible, and will not indulge in
 68 5    |        may be, and as friendly as possible to one another. And men
 69 5    |           seeing that this is not possible, and one man will have greater
 70 5    |         and offices as equally as possible, and there will be no quarrels
 71 5    |     should be placed as nearly as possible in the centre of the country;
 72 5    |         their property, as far as possible, so as to form twelve equal
 73 5    |           the citizens, as far as possible, not to lose sight of numerical
 74 6    |        inferior men, but the best possible. For as the proverb says, “
 75 6    |        chance enters as seldom as possible.~Thus, O my friends, and
 76 6    |        the state may be as far as possible of one mind. The officers
 77 6    | everything have a guard as far as possible. Let the defence of the
 78 6    |          into twelve as nearly as possible equal parts, and let the
 79 6    |          in order that as many as possible of the guards may not only
 80 6    |            taking them, as far as possible, at the times when they
 81 6    |     enemies, and as accessible as possible to friends; there shall
 82 6    |          suits, too, as far as is possible, all should have a share;
 83 6    |          be written down with all possible exactness; in the second
 84 6    |     themselves, as far as this is possible.~Cleinias. Certainly; if
 85 6    |           such matters, as far as possible, a man should deem it all
 86 6    |          the same country, nor if possible, speaking the same language;
 87 6    |       them, and to do to them, if possible, even more justice than
 88 6    |   citizens is provided, as far as possible, with a sufficient number
 89 6    |          regard be had to what is possible and suitable to each.~  ~
 90 7    |         should live, if that were possible, as if they were always
 91 7    |           these three years every possible care were taken that our
 92 7    |         in general of pain as was possible, might we not expect in
 93 7    |   together the new state in every possible way, omitting nothing, whether
 94 7    |           not, then, try in every possible way to prevent our youth
 95 7    |        and sundry, as far this is possible; and the pupils shall be
 96 7    |          that if these things are possible, nothing can be more absurd
 97 7    |          ought to share as far as possible in education and in other
 98 7    |           boys, and, if that were possible, everybody and everything
 99 7    |      satisfactory? Now, as far as possible, the law ought to leave
100 7    |        themselves being as far as possible alike, and shall live well
101 7    |          neither easy, nor at all possible for every one; but there
102 8    |        come as near to reality as possible, instead of cestuses we
103 8    |       dangerous, and as nearly as possible like the true ones, in order
104 8    |      beloved youth to be the best possible; and the other two, if possible,
105 8    |   possible; and the other two, if possible, we should hinder? What
106 8    |         seeing that such a law is possible, and in what way; for, as
107 8    |          that such enactments are possible, and not beyond human nature?~
108 9    |          rob a temple, the fewest possible words of admonition and
109 9    |       houses as holy and happy as possible. And if any one of the houses
110 9    |           cases to fall short, if possible, of the terrors of the world
111 10   |         such persuasion be at all possible, then a legislator who has
112 10   |       impiety, and that we may if possible use arguments which may
113 11   |          as few retail traders as possible; and in the second place,
114 11   |          good or as little bad as possible, the guardians of the law
115 11   |       every one, and do the least possible injury to those in the state
116 11   |     complete; and this, as far as possible, is to continue always.
117 11   |          as little sad to them as possible. In the first place, we
118 11   |         orphans, seeking in every possible way to do them good, for
119 11   |    destitute of any art, ought if possible never to come into existence,
120 12   |           in all things as far as possible in common and together;
121 12   |       mixture causes the greatest possible injury; but seeing that
122 12   |       they should send as many as possible, and the best and fairest
123 12   |        this shall be as little as possible. The second kind is just
124 12   |      contracts as far as this was possible, the next thing will be
125 12   |       dead with as little hurt as possible to the living. No man, living
126 12   |        not labour to obtain every possible evidence that there is respecting
127 12   |        the thing is in any degree possible.~Athenian. Let us make a


Lysis
    Part
128 Text |           return? which is a very possible case.~Yes.~Or is, perhaps,
129 Text |          I do not see how that is possible.~And yet, I said, if friendship
130 Text |          the like? For if that is possible, then I think, Lysis and


Menexenus
    Part
131 Text |          the Hellenes that it was possible to ward off the barbarians
132 Text |  all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your
133 Text |        the calamity as lightly as possible, and not to condole with
134 Text |  happiness rests with himself, if possible, wholly, and if not, as
135 Text |          and if not, as far as is possible,—who is not hanging in suspense
136 Text |          desiring as far as it is possible that their orphanhood may


Meno
    Part
137 Intro|           sense is admitted to be possible. Right opinion is again
138 Text |          right and good action is possible to man under other guidance


Parmenides
    Part
139 Intro|           been taken? It is quite possible that the obscurity of the
140 Intro|         universal; and that every possible conception which we can
141 Text |      different—the only different possible is one which is becoming.~
142 Text |         necessary to make contact possible?~They are.~And if to the


Phaedo
    Part
143 Intro|          time, which are the only possible explanations of eternal
144 Intro|      should be as like himself as possible. And the manner in which
145 Intro|           be translated as far as possible into their modern equivalents. ‘
146 Text |        body, and has as little as possible to do with it, when she
147 Text |  knowledge when we have the least possible intercourse or communion
148 Text |        more than you affirm to be possible, and acknowledging not only
149 Text |            to any extent which is possible; and less of a harmony,
150 Text |       said, that we endeavour, if possible, to determine what these


Phaedrus
    Part
151 Intro|          the human mind which are possible?~To these questions many
152 Intro|      progress of education. It is possible, and even probable, that
153 Text |           agreeable to himself as possible. Now to him who has a mind
154 Text |    wanting to make him as like as possible to their own god. But those
155 Text |    beloved, and also the greatest possible good?~SOCRATES: Capital.


Philebus
    Part
156 Intro|         which to make the fairest possible mixture. There are pure
157 Intro|           To promote in every way possible the happiness of others
158 Text |       seal of some one nature, if possible, set upon them—do you remember?~
159 Text |       want to attain the plainest possible notion of pleasure and desire,
160 Text |    experience was the single case possible.~PROTARCHUS: Quite true,
161 Text |   pleasure and knowledge in every possible way, in order that if there
162 Text |         pain, but only the purest possible thought.~PROTARCHUS: He
163 Text |           make the fairest of all possible mixtures.~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
164 Text |          not good, nor altogether possible; and that if we are to make


Protagoras
    Part
165 Text |           wish that you would, if possible, show me a little more clearly
166 Text |        becoming good, yet this is possible for a time, and only for
167 Text |          Pittacus, affirm, is not possible, and is not granted to man;
168 Text |    becoming good; and yet this is possible: but to be good is an impossibility—~‘
169 Text |          even now, if you see any possible way in which evil can be


The Republic
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170 2    |           thoughtless persons; if possible, they had better be buried
171 3    |        body as far as this may be possible. What do you say? ~Yes,
172 3    |    deceive the rulers, if that be possible, and at any rate the rest
173 5    |        whether our proposals were possible, and secondly whether they
174 5    |        State should be as good as possible? ~There can be nothing better. ~
175 5    |        made an enactment not only possible but in the highest degree
176 5    |            they must be as far as possible of like natures with them;
177 5    |        the inferior as seldom, as possible; and that they should rear
178 5    |           order as far as this is possible to prevent the State from
179 5    |           to have as many sons as possible. ~True. ~And the proper
180 5    |         milk, taking the greatest possible care that no mother recognizes
181 5    |          so also among men-and if possible, in what way possible? ~
182 5    |          if possible, in what way possible? ~You have anticipated the
183 5    |          have as many children as possible? ~Agreed. ~Again, there
184 5    |           such an order of things possible, and how, if at all? For
185 5    |       tell us how such a State is possible: speak out and at once. ~
186 5    |            and let the change, if possible, be of one thing only, or,
187 5    |           be as few and slight as possible. ~Certainly, he replied. ~
188 5    |     slight or easy though still a possible one. ~What is it? he said. ~
189 6    |           a union of qualities is possible, and that those in whom
190 6    |        the ways of men, as far as possible, agreeable to the ways of
191 6    |            that all this, if only possible, is assuredly for the best. ~
192 7    |       Usefulness in war. ~Yes, if possible. ~There were two parts in
193 7    |          and the bravest, and, if possible, to the fairest; and, having
194 7    |          not impossible, but only possible in the way which has been
195 8    |           is to become as rich as possible, a desire which is insatiable? ~
196 8    |          distance and prevent, if possible, their ever coming in; and
197 8    |      cells cut out as speedily as possible. ~Yes, by all means, he
198 9    |      judges - ~The only inference possible, he replied, is that pleasures
199 9    |          we may be all, as far as possible, under the same government,
200 10   |         on either side, as far as possible, not only in this life but


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
201 Text |        Why, Socrates, how is that possible? I must have been mistaken.~


The Seventh Letter
    Part
202 Text |    affairs aright. For it was not possible to be active in politics
203 Text |         means and with the utmost possible speed to be his partner
204 Text |         means and with the utmost possible speed, before certain other
205 Text |      constitution, when it is not possible for the best constitution
206 Text |          would make him as far as possible master of himself and able
207 Text |       right well, so far as it is possible for a man to say anything
208 Text |           at home, and, as far as possible, a long line of ancestors
209 Text |    according to my view it is not possible for them to have any real
210 Text |    particulars of them as soon as possible, and you must not as yet
211 Text |   departure, and it was no longer possible for me to take mine, when


The Sophist
    Part
212 Intro|         hooker of men’ as much as possible; each step in the pedigree
213 Intro|      theories as was necessary or possible in the age in which he lived.
214 Text |          which such a division is possible.~THEAETETUS: Where?~STRANGER:
215 Text |        youth, do you suppose this possible? for perhaps your young
216 Text |           be if such a thing were possible!~SOCRATES: But how can any
217 Text |           of reasoning? Is it not possible to enchant the hearts of
218 Text |      clearly, we ought as soon as possible to divide the image-making
219 Text |      degree of falsehood is to be possible.~STRANGER: And does not
220 Text |          them; but if this is not possible, let us imagine them to
221 Text |           THEAETETUS: How is that possible?~STRANGER: Or shall we say
222 Text |          contend we must in every possible way against him who would
223 Text |       both these classes. Is this possible?~THEAETETUS: Utterly impossible.~
224 Text |           are in one which is, if possible, even greater.~STRANGER:
225 Text |          classes, which make them possible?~THEAETETUS: To be sure
226 Text |      opinion and false speech are possible, for to think or to say
227 Text |          arise.~THEAETETUS: Quite possible.~STRANGER: And we have already


The Statesman
    Part
228 Intro|         though not the best thing possible, is best for the imperfect
229 Intro|         what is best, but what is possible.~d. Law is the first principle
230 Text |        their motion is, as far as possible, single and in the same
231 Text |           is the least alteration possible. For the lord of all moving
232 Text |   everything into as few parts as possible.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What is
233 Text |        nor Statesmanship would be possible; and yet we are not inclined
234 Text |          reject the bad as far as possible, and accept the good and


The Symposium
    Part
235 Intro|         better cared for than was possible in a great household of
236 Intro|       think evil. And it is quite possible that the malignity of Greek
237 Text |           is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal:
238 Text |       meat or drink, if that were possible—you only want to look at


Theaetetus
    Part
239 Intro|          But how is false opinion possible? The Megarian or Eristic
240 Intro|           Theaetetus, as the only possible source from which an answer
241 Intro|       knowledge, if this had been possible; and several times in the
242 Intro|         time? ‘Impossible.’ Quite possible, if you maintain that seeing
243 Intro|  ourselves, ‘How is false opinion possible?’ This difficulty may be
244 Intro|  difficulty: How is false opinion possible? For we must either know
245 Intro|         To avoid error as much as possible when we are speaking of
246 Intro|           they intermingle. It is possible to reflect upon them or
247 Intro|         The use of all of them is possible to us at all times; and
248 Text |      should scarcely have thought possible; for those who, like him,
249 Text |           and in the fewest words possible, the basis of agreement.~
250 Text |       other inference seems to be possible.~SOCRATES: And how about
251 Text |       like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him,
252 Text |            THEODORUS: How is that possible, Socrates, either in the
253 Text |          to us, Theaetetus:—Is it possible for any man to think that
254 Text | THEAETETUS: I am.~SOCRATES: It is possible then upon your view for
255 Text |         which such a deception is possible.~THEAETETUS: You mean to
256 Text |         sense;—this last case, if possible, is still more inconceivable


Timaeus
    Part
257 Intro|        eternal as far as this was possible. Wherefore he made an image
258 Intro|       irrationally in all the six possible ways, forwards, backwards,
259 Intro|    persuading necessity as far as possible to work out good. Before
260 Intro|        made things, as far as was possible, fair and good, out of things
261 Intro|         immortality, as far as is possible to man, and also to happiness,
262 Intro|         he seeks to put as far as possible out of the way of God. And
263 Intro| philosophy, show that it is quite possible that the human mind should
264 Intro|         each of these solids as a possible world in itself, though
265 Intro|          which is not now thought possible.~Section 7.~In Plato’s explanation
266 Intro|        origin of man. It would be possible to frame a scheme in which
267 Intro|         he must put God as far as possible out of the way of evil,
268 Text |          proportion so far as was possible (as fire is to air so is
269 Text |        animal should be as far as possible a perfect whole and of perfect
270 Text |       resemble this as far as was possible; for the pattern exists
271 Text |         nature, and be as like as possible to the perfect and intelligible
272 Text |           and disordered in every possible manner, so that when they
273 Text |        idea of the best as far as possible, uses as his ministers.
274 Text |          shall be as inodorous as possible; or as those who wish to
275 Text |     surface as even and smooth as possible. In the same way that which
276 Text |        equally long, but if it is possible to set forth a great principle
277 Text |           God made them as far as possible the fairest and best, out
278 Text |           them together is hardly possible; for which reason we must
279 Text |          noise and disturbance as possible, and permitting the best
280 Text |        repeat in the fewest words possible, that one part, if remaining
281 Text |      mortal, and, as far as it is possible altogether to become such,