The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|            of Socrates, there are no means of determining. It certainly
  2 Intro|              popular gods; he had no means of knowing about them. According
  3 Text |            proportion the fine to my means. Well, perhaps I could afford


Charmides
    Part
  4 Text |            of the difficulty?~By all means, he replied.~Does not what


Cratylus
    Part
  5 Intro|              definite notion. But he means to express generally that
  6 Intro|         explain to him what Cratylus means; or, far rather, he would
  7 Intro|             really the same,—the one means a king, and the other is ‘
  8 Intro|             Hesiod, and by golden he means not literally golden, but
  9 Intro|            an old form of ousia, and means the first principle of things:
 10 Intro|       mechane, apo tou mekous, which means polu, and anein, I shall
 11 Intro|              is really demiodes, and means that which binds motion (
 12 Intro|            in your presence, what he means by the fitness of names?’
 13 Intro|     knowledge of language. But if he means that the word or the meaning
 14 Text |           Socrates, what this oracle means; or rather tell me, if you
 15 Text |           only making fun of you;—he means to say that you are no true
 16 Text |            the shuttle well—and well means like a weaver? and the teacher
 17 Text |           use the name well—and well means like a teacher?~HERMOGENES:
 18 Text |             think; and what the poet means by correctness may be more
 19 Text |             to win Hippodamia by all means for his bride. Every one
 20 Text |               Why, I suppose that he means by the golden men, not men
 21 Text |             name.~HERMOGENES: By all means.~SOCRATES: Poseidon is Posidesmos,
 22 Text |               Ploutos), and his name means the giver of wealth, which
 23 Text |           this; whereas the new name means only that the Goddess is
 24 Text |          Homeric word emesato, which means ‘he contrived’—out of these
 25 Text |           these sort of Gods, by all means, Socrates. But why should
 26 Text |      language of Homer (Od.) gegaasi means gegennesthai.~HERMOGENES:
 27 Text |            and the whole proposition means that his power of reviewing
 28 Text |             chain (desmos), for lian means strength, and therefore
 29 Text |            you.~SOCRATES: I am by no means positive, Cratylus, in the


Critias
    Part
 30 Intro|             devoted to acquiring the means of life...And the armed


Crito
    Part
 31 Intro|         taken in the sense, which he means, of moral evil; in his own
 32 Text |         which you mention, but by no means the only one.~CRITO: Fear
 33 Text |          money will satisfy them. My means, which are certainly ample,


Euthydemus
    Part
 34 Intro|            men desire good; and good means the possession of goods,
 35 Intro|             time use philosophy as a means of serving their own interests.
 36 Text |          that everybody ought by all means to try and make himself
 37 Text |              men good?~CRITO: By all means.~SOCRATES: And in what will


Euthyphro
    Part
 38 Intro|           Euthyphro explains that he means by pious acts, acts of service
 39 Intro|              thought and feeling. He means to say that the words ‘loved
 40 Text |             understand, Socrates; he means to attack you about the
 41 Text |           respect?~EUTHYPHRO: By all means.~SOCRATES: I should not


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 42 Intro|           the sense which Alcibiades means, who is also bad? ‘I mean,’
 43 Text |         trained athletes, and he who means to rival them ought to have
 44 Text |               And taking proper care means improving?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~
 45 Text |              Then you or any one who means to govern and superintend,


Gorgias
    Part
 46 Intro|              and unscrupulous in his means of attaining both. There
 47 Intro|           desires grow, and take the means of satisfying them. To the
 48 Intro|             this? For if virtue only means the saving of life, whether
 49 Intro|              that mankind will by no means agree in thinking that the
 50 Intro|          goods are only desirable as means towards these. He is thought
 51 Intro|           the end cannot justify the means, they feel also that good
 52 Intro|        reflect at all, except on the means by which they can compass
 53 Text |           knowledge?~GORGIAS: By all means.~SOCRATES: And which sort
 54 Text |              the name ‘Polus,’ which means ‘a colt.’)~GORGIAS: Never
 55 Text |             if they be provided with means, are virtue and happiness—
 56 Text |          argument?~CALLICLES: By all means. (Or, ‘I am in profound
 57 Text |        Socrates, what your quibbling means.~SOCRATES: You know, Callicles,
 58 Text |              this?~CALLICLES: By all means.~SOCRATES: I think that


Ion
    Part
 59 Text |              unless he knows what he means? All this is greatly to


Laches
    Part
 60 Text |              NICIAS: That I have the means of knowing as well as Laches;
 61 Text |            advantage, which is by no means a slight one,—that this
 62 Text |      acknowledge that they are by no means firstrate in the arts of
 63 Text |            of the end and not of the means?~NICIAS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 64 Text |           other character, unless he means to say that he is a god.
 65 Text |              just to explain what he means, and if he has reason on


Laws
    Book
 66 1    |             matter?~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. You ought to
 67 1    |  imperturbable, should we not by all means appoint him?~Cleinias. Assuredly.~
 68 2    |             absurd?~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. If very small
 69 2    |             that if a city seriously means to adopt the practice of
 70 3    |            one another; but then the means of travelling either by
 71 3    |            and they had scarcely any means of felling timber. Even
 72 3    |              do so?~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. Ilium was built,
 73 3    |            you say.~Cleinias. By all means, if Heaven wills. Go on.~
 74 3    |           was preserved, and was the means of preserving all the rest.
 75 3    |            you why?~Cleinias. By all means, if it will tend to elucidate
 76 3    |              authority is not by any means so good as government by
 77 4    |              is too numerous for the means of subsistence? For I suppose
 78 4    |            shall I?~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. In the primeval
 79 4    |           hold converse with them by means of prayers and offerings
 80 4    |              and the man of moderate means, who was himself moderate,
 81 5    |              deficient, and devise a means that the number of 5040
 82 5    |           acquire riches by any such means.~Further, the law enjoins
 83 5    |              acquires wealth by just means only, can hardly be remarkable
 84 5    |      settlement.~Now we ought by all means to consider that there can
 85 6    |              Cleinias. Let us by all means do as you propose.~Athenian.
 86 6    |       speaking of education, the law means to speak of those who have
 87 6    |             if any one possesses any means of accomplishing this by
 88 6    |         incomplete.~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. And is not this
 89 6    |              agreed, by no manner of means, and any one who dissents
 90 6    |            shall spend more than his means will allow; he who is of
 91 6    |            the first place, is by no means conducive to the health
 92 6    |        legislation.~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. Assuming that
 93 7    |             to you.~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. The practice
 94 7    |             bodies.~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. Let us assume,
 95 7    |            or pursuits, for by these means a city is bound together,
 96 7    |              speak.~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. Let me tell you
 97 7    |            with me.~Cleinias. By all means; that law is approved by
 98 7    |       Cleinias. Let it be so, by all means.~Athenian. Then it will
 99 7    |            truly to consider by what means, and in what ways, we may
100 7    |            proceed?~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. What will be
101 8    |       provisions do, as far as human means can effect anything, exercise
102 8    |             nature?~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. Is a man more
103 8    |             therefore proceed to the means of providing food. Now,
104 8    |             food. Now, in cities the means of life are gained in many
105 9    |            matters.~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. Concerning all
106 9    |           taking away privileges, by means of fines or gifts, or in
107 9    |          things, if he have no other means of getting rid of them.
108 10   |          disciples.~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. They say that
109 10   |            they have been created by means of these absolutely inanimate
110 10   |       meaning, but is what he really means.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
111 10   |           directed?~Cleinias. By all means.~Athenian. Let us be on
112 10   |          beheld men by such criminal means from small beginnings attaining
113 11   |            the God who gives him the means of life, but considering,
114 11   |              following will be by no means out of place:—He who is
115 11   |            which was gained by these means shall be a discussion and
116 12   |        crooked practice? It is by no means easy to find a magistrate
117 12   |             find that he has not the means of paying, and the sum deficient


Lysis
    Part
118 Text |        anxiety has regard not to the means which are provided for the


Menexenus
    Part
119 Text |              Socrates; let us by all means have the speech.~SOCRATES:
120 Text |             is that she provided the means of support for her offspring.


Meno
    Part
121 Text |            indulge you?~MENO: By all means.~SOCRATES: And then you
122 Text |              of virtue?~MENO: By all means, Socrates. And yet I would


Parmenides
    Part
123 Intro|               they assume that Plato means to show the impossibility
124 Intro|          Zeller that by the ‘one’ he means the Idea; and that he is
125 Intro|      hypothesis of the one.’ ‘By all means,’ said Zeno. ‘And who will
126 Intro|           that ‘Being is not,’ by no means intends to deny the existence
127 Text |             not-being of one?~By all means, said Zeno.~And who will
128 Text |            the parts is a part, this means, I suppose, that it is one
129 Text |           true of the others.~By all means.~Then let us begin again,
130 Text |            If one is not’ he clearly means, that what ‘is not’ is other
131 Text |              others; we know what he means—do we not?~Yes, we do.~When
132 Text |              synonymous?~True.~Other means other than other, and different,


Phaedo
    Part
133 Intro|         effect, or as the end to the means? Shall we say with Aristotle,
134 Text |              he care for them?~By no means.~And will he think much
135 Text |           which we digressed.~By all means, replied Socrates; what
136 Text |            her perpetual study—which means that she has been a true
137 Text |     determine what these are.~By all means.~Are they not, Cebes, such


Phaedrus
    Part
138 Intro|          cannot be taught.’ Socrates means to say, that what is truly
139 Intro|            that the extension of the means of knowledge over a wider
140 Text |        ignorant of what this rapture means, because they do not clearly
141 Text |            deities?~PHAEDRUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: Beloved Pan,


Philebus
    Part
142 Intro|        quotation from Orpheus: Plato means to say that a sixth class,
143 Intro|        practical usefulness: he only means that the refutation of the
144 Intro|             impression that Socrates means to discuss the common question—
145 Text |            sides?~PROTARCHUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: Philebus was
146 Text |          these matters ought, by all means, to be ascertained.~PROTARCHUS:
147 Text |              PROTARCHUS: Yes, by all means.~SOCRATES: And you say that
148 Text |            pointed out, but is by no means easy of application; it
149 Text |            order.~PROTARCHUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: Then the first
150 Text |        answer me.~PROTARCHUS: By all means, and I reply to them, that
151 Text |             them?~PROTARCHUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: But had we not
152 Text |         mingling.~PROTARCHUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: Are not we the
153 Text |          waters’?~PROTARCHUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: There—I have


Protagoras
    Part
154 Intro|          that he knew nothing. Plato means to say that virtue is not
155 Text |              your behalf. If our own means are sufficient, and we can
156 Text |            for the latter some other means of preservation, making
157 Text |         another, he contrived also a means of protecting them against
158 Text |            man was supplied with the means of life. But Prometheus
159 Text |             to provide them with the means of life, and did not enable
160 Text |           done by those who have the means, and those who have the
161 Text |               and those who have the means are the rich; their children
162 Text |           have all the others?~By no means, he said; for many a man
163 Text |            the others told me by all means to do as I proposed.~Then
164 Text |          would be ridiculous; but he means to say that he accepts and
165 Text |             excess and defect, which means that they become greater
166 Text |            to something else.~By all means, I said, if that is your


The Republic
    Book
167 1    |            his right mind I am by no means to make the return? ~Certainly
168 2    |            way, and lie hidden if he means to be great in his injustice (
169 2    |             rest entreated me by all means not to let the question
170 2    |         families do not exceed their means; having an eye to poverty
171 2    |            else? ~A difficulty by no means easy to overcome, he replied. ~
172 2    |     education of our heroes. ~By all means. ~And what shall be their
173 2    |        gymnastics afterward? ~By all means. ~And when you speak of
174 3    |             among the young. ~By all means, he replied. ~But now that
175 5    | administration of the State. ~By all means. ~Let us say to him: Come
176 5    |             they have discovered any means of effecting their wishes-that
177 5    |              or of the evil? ~By all means. ~Can there be any greater
178 5    |           What do you think? ~By all means, I should say. ~And he who
179 5    |          must do as he bids? ~By all means. ~And in ages to come we
180 6    |           other excellences. ~By all means. ~In the first place, as
181 6    |              than the other? ~By all means. ~And let us ask and answer
182 6    |            no real notion of what he means by the principles or passions
183 6    |           are earnestly and by every means in their power seeking after
184 6    |            to come to terms? ~By all means, he said. ~Then let us suppose
185 6    |         hear-otherwise, not. ~By all means, he said, tell us about
186 7    |           below to the gods? ~By all means, he replied. ~The process,
187 7    |              which she ought, by all means, to behold. ~True, he said. ~
188 7    |              fair city should by all means learn geometry. Moreover,
189 8    |         miserly because they have no means of openly acquiring the
190 8    |              with the State. ~By all means. ~I believe that oligarchy
191 8    |       answers to this State. ~By all means. ~Does not the timocratical
192 8    |        acquisition of wealth and the means of acquiring it. ~Of all
193 8    |           proposed to itself and the means by which it was maintained
194 8    |            as possible. ~Yes, by all means, he said. ~Then, in order
195 8    |                And the tyrant, if he means to rule, must get rid of
196 9    |        answer our inquiries. ~By all means. ~Let me ask you not to
197 9    |            or spend according to his means. ~Very true. ~And, for the
198 10   |               he said, should by all means be considered. ~Now do you
199 10   |              is good or bad. ~By all means. ~We may state the question
200 10   |            in what manner or by what means he returned to the body


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
201 Text |           character, and it is by no means everybody who can interpret
202 Text |          mortal man.’~Afterwards the means may be given to you whereby


The Seventh Letter
    Part
203 Text |            Syracuse by all manner of means and with the utmost possible
204 Text |             to come by all manner of means and with the utmost possible
205 Text |              providing them with the means of satisfying desires which
206 Text |             will provide for him the means of eating or drinking or
207 Text |               he would then by every means in his power have ordered
208 Text |          begged that I should by all means come. Dion now kept urging


The Sophist
    Part
209 Intro|              Parmenides, he probably means to imply that he is making
210 Intro|            Who they were, we have no means of determining except from
211 Intro|              or rest motion? ‘No; he means to assert the existence
212 Intro|           God in man. But this by no means implies that he conceived
213 Text |             of each of them is by no means a slight or easy task.~THEODORUS:
214 Text |       Sophist is.~THEAETETUS: By all means.~STRANGER: The first question
215 Text |           being’?~THEAETETUS: By all means.~STRANGER: Then let them
216 Text |            other?~THEAETETUS: By all means.~STRANGER: He, then, who


The Statesman
    Part
217 Intro|              states of the world the means are wanting to render a
218 Intro|    benevolent power effectual. These means are not a mere external
219 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: I think that
220 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: Shall we distinguish
221 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: I say that we
222 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: The science of
223 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: Listen, then,
224 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: Suppose that
225 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: Let us consider,
226 Text |            with all things. And this means what we are now saying;
227 Text |               YOUNG SOCRATES: By all means.~STRANGER: I must again


The Symposium
    Part
228 Intro|          which both in affection and means have married and endowed
229 Intro|            raise a laugh by whatever means), all the greater writers
230 Intro|                 At first immortality means only the succession of existences;
231 Intro|       spurious Apology.~There are no means of determining the relative
232 Text |               that we should, by all means, avoid hard drinking, for
233 Text |            on the same couch.~By all means; but who makes the third
234 Text |             replied Socrates, by all means come here and lie on the


Theaetetus
    Part
235 Intro|              youth); but he is by no means supposed to be in possession
236 Intro|              analysis had outrun the means of knowledge; and through
237 Intro|           once divines that Socrates means him to extend to all kinds
238 Intro|             him who is hot. And “is” means “appears,” and when you
239 Intro|           say “appears to him,” that means “he feels.” Thus feeling,
240 Intro|         knowledge is experience.’ He means to say that the outward
241 Intro|         connexion between them by no means affords a measure of the
242 Intro|         caring about truth, is by no means singular, either in philosophy
243 Intro|              never said that ‘change means every sort of change;’ and
244 Intro|          Socrates observes, is by no means pedantic. A still further
245 Intro|             is in the Parmenides, he means something not really different
246 Intro|              of one man, who has the means of knowing, persuading another
247 Intro|        Because it deprives us of the means and instruments of higher
248 Intro|             mind, which is our chief means of knowing it. It equally
249 Intro|             sciences, and we have no means of tracing them from one
250 Text |           Socrates.~SOCRATES: By all means, Theaetetus, in order that
251 Text |           reason?~THEAETETUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: Bear in mind
252 Text |       SOCRATES: And ‘appears to him’ means the same as ‘he perceives.’~
253 Text |               which in the soul only means want of attention and study,
254 Text |          chain in Homer, by which he means the sun, thereby indicating
255 Text |     certainly determine by any other means which of these opinions
256 Text |    Theaetetus, that the word ‘other’ means not ‘partially,’ but ‘wholly
257 Text |              him?~THEAETETUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: He will repeat
258 Text |              says?~THEODORUS: By all means.~SOCRATES: But if his wishes
259 Text |              I am to defend by every means in my power your departed
260 Text |              THEAETETUS: Then by all means venture, and no one shall


Timaeus
    Part
261 Intro|            that the Timaeus is by no means confined to speculations
262 Intro|         would have sufficed, but two means are required to unite solid
263 Intro|             numbers are two kinds of means; the one exceeds and is
264 Intro|      transmitted through the ears by means of the air, brain, and blood
265 Intro|             have now to speak of the means by which the mind and body
266 Intro|              can we of the other. He means (3) to say that the creation
267 Intro|              God that was to be.’ He means (4) to draw an absolute
268 Intro|             visible and changing. He means (5) that the idea of the
269 Intro|                By (Greek) he clearly means some conception of the intelligible
270 Intro|           bond which is given by two means is stronger than the single
271 Intro|           supposes, not that (Greek) means ‘revolving,’ or that this
272 Intro|       network of a creel.’ He really means by this what we should describe
273 Intro|          liver, being transmitted by means of the air, the brain, and
274 Intro|         quite recent times. We by no means distinguish clearly between
275 Intro|              like this is what Plato means when he speaks of the soul ‘
276 Text |         first and last both becoming means, they will all of them of
277 Text |              there were two kinds of means, the one exceeding and exceeded
278 Text |           body to be its vehicle and means of locomotion; which consequently
279 Text |          ears, and is transmitted by means of the air, the brain, and
280 Text |              bile. When bile finds a means of discharge, it boils up