The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |        anything he is doing right or wrong—acting the part of a good
  2 Text |           not frighten me into doing wrong; and when we came out of
  3 Text |          there seems to be something wrong in asking a favour of a
  4 Text |        dishonourable and impious and wrong, especially now, when I
  5 Text |        another, I will assuredly not wrong myself. I will not say of
  6 Text |              penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my


Charmides
    Part
  7 PreS |       awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words. They also
  8 Text |           the assumption is right or wrong may hereafter be investigated.
  9 Text |            us much good. For we were wrong, I think, in supposing,
 10 Text |            was afraid we were on the wrong track; for however ready
 11 Text |          Critias, that I was not far wrong in fearing that I could
 12 Text |         command me, I should be very wrong not to obey you.~And I do


Cratylus
    Part
 13 Intro|        either wholly right or wholly wrong, or that Plato, though he
 14 Intro|              But we shall not be far wrong in placing the Cratylus
 15 Intro|         pictures may give a right or wrong representation of a man
 16 Intro|          true and right or false and wrong? Cratylus admits that pictures
 17 Intro|           that there is a right or a wrong assignment of names, and
 18 Intro|           Timaeus.)~Neither is Plato wrong in supposing that an element
 19 Intro|            from them about right and wrong, matter and mind, freedom
 20 Intro|             that there is a right or wrong in the formation of words.
 21 Text |           SOCRATES: And we cannot be wrong in supposing that this is
 22 Text |          others. Nor shall we be far wrong in supposing that the author
 23 Text |            piece of work, and in the wrong direction.~HERMOGENES: That,
 24 Text |          shall we say that this is a wrong name, or not his name at
 25 Text |              which is unlike, I call wrong, and in the case of names,
 26 Text |              names, false as well as wrong.~CRATYLUS: That may be true,
 27 Text |              may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
 28 Text |               Now if there be such a wrong assignment of names, there
 29 Text |           names, there may also be a wrong or inappropriate assignment
 30 Text |         occasional substitution of a wrong letter, and if of a letter
 31 Text |           hardness? Were we right or wrong in saying so?~CRATYLUS:


Critias
    Part
 32 Text | unintentionally I have said anything wrong, I pray that he will impose


Crito
    Part
 33 Text |               if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the
 34 Text |            never intentionally to do wrong, or that in one way we ought
 35 Text |       another way we ought not to do wrong, or is doing wrong always
 36 Text |             to do wrong, or is doing wrong always evil and dishonorable,
 37 Text |         SOCRATES: Then we must do no wrong?~CRITO: Certainly not.~SOCRATES:
 38 Text |          will of the Athenians, do I wrong any? or rather do I not
 39 Text |              any? or rather do I not wrong those whom I ought least
 40 Text |          those whom I ought least to wrong? Do I not desert the principles
 41 Text |               as we maintain, thrice wrong: first, because in disobeying
 42 Text |            you ought least of all to wrong, that is to say, yourself,


Euthydemus
    Part
 43 Intro|           may be too much of them in wrong places. ‘No,’ says Ctesippus, ‘
 44 Text |               and turn his mind in a wrong direction, and he may be
 45 Text |             answer to Euthydemus was wrong.~Then once more the admirers
 46 Text |              Then, he said, you were wrong in your answer.~The word
 47 Text |          quite true, I said. And the wrong use of a thing is far worse
 48 Text |          certainly they were not far wrong; for the man, Crito, began
 49 Text |            error, then again you are wrong in saying that there is


Euthyphro
    Part
 50 Text |         suppose that people think me wrong. But, as you who are well
 51 Text |         doubt.~SOCRATES: Then we are wrong in saying that where there
 52 Text |        SOCRATES: Then either we were wrong in our former assertion;
 53 Text |              were right then, we are wrong now.~EUTHYPHRO: One of the
 54 Text |             run such a risk of doing wrong in the sight of the gods,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 55 Text |              persons have done great wrong and profited by their injustice;
 56 Text |            no, my friend, I am quite wrong, and I think that you ought
 57 Text |          ALCIBIADES: You are not far wrong about me.~SOCRATES: And


Gorgias
    Part
 58 Intro|          contained in it, that doing wrong is worse than suffering,
 59 Intro|          prevent him from ever doing wrong. Polus is naturally exasperated
 60 Intro|         dishonourable than to suffer wrong. And as they are the superior
 61 Intro|      punishment, but if he have done wrong he must endure punishment.
 62 Intro|             and excess. But if he be wrong in this, and if self-control
 63 Intro|           right in saying that to do wrong is worse than to suffer
 64 Intro|              is worse than to suffer wrong, and Gorgias was right in
 65 Intro|             a just man. And you were wrong in taunting me with my defenceless
 66 Intro|             not be ridiculous. To do wrong is the greatest of evils,
 67 Intro|              of evils, and to suffer wrong is the next greatest evil.
 68 Intro|             to have said or done any wrong to himself or others. If
 69 Intro|             exposed to every sort of wrong and obloquy.~Plato, like
 70 Intro|           actions which are right or wrong in themselves. This is the
 71 Intro|              is better to suffer for wrong doing than not to suffer.~
 72 Intro|           apt to imagine a right and wrong apart from consequences;
 73 Text |              if the pugilist makes a wrong use of his pugilistic art;
 74 Text |           prove that many men who do wrong are happy.~SOCRATES: What
 75 Text |            about doing and suffering wrong? Did you not say, that suffering
 76 Text |              not say, that suffering wrong was more evil, and doing
 77 Text |             was more evil, and doing wrong more disgraceful?~POLUS:
 78 Text |             SOCRATES: Then, if doing wrong is more disgraceful than
 79 Text |         justly corrected when you do wrong?~POLUS: I should.~SOCRATES:
 80 Text |          POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: To do wrong, then, is second only in
 81 Text |            scale of evils; but to do wrong and not to be punished,
 82 Text |          other who like him has done wrong and has not been punished,
 83 Text |          guard himself against doing wrong, for he will thereby suffer
 84 Text |            about whom he cares, does wrong, he ought of his own accord
 85 Text |             friends who may be doing wrong; he should bring to light
 86 Text |          declaring that you had done wrong when you had done no wrong,
 87 Text |           wrong when you had done no wrong, you must allow that you
 88 Text |           that you seem to have been wrong in your former assertion,
 89 Text |               Then we are both doing wrong. Still, my dear friend,
 90 Text |            friend if he did anything wrong, and that to this end he
 91 Text |              or in any way at all to wrong me and mine, is far more
 92 Text |              evil to the doer of the wrong than to me who am the sufferer.
 93 Text |          conclusion that no one does wrong voluntarily, but that all
 94 Text |         voluntarily, but that all do wrong against their will?~CALLICLES:
 95 Text |        rather contrive to do as much wrong as possible, and not be
 96 Text |          indignation at the supposed wrong which is done to them; ‘
 97 Text |          never said or done anything wrong, either in respect of gods
 98 Text |            but he is afraid of doing wrong. For to go to the world
 99 Text |         souls found their way to the wrong places. Zeus said: ‘I shall
100 Text |           there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly
101 Text |           that when any one has been wrong in anything, he is to be


Laches
    Part
102 Text |             in being reminded of any wrong thing which we are, or have
103 Text |             own opinion, and if I am wrong you shall set me right:
104 Text |         Lysimachus, I should be very wrong in refusing to aid in the


Laws
    Book
105 1    |              principles of right and wrong in laws.~Cleinias. What
106 1    |              I thought that you went wrong when you added that all
107 1    |   Lacedaemonian polities is right or wrong. But I believe that I can
108 1    |           which of them are right or wrong; but with one mouth and
109 1    |         discredit in knowing what is wrong; he who receives what is
110 1    |           them ignorantly and at the wrong time, is the reverse of
111 1    |           seem to me to proceed in a wrong way. Let me give you an
112 1    |            general they were utterly wrong.~Cleinias. What do you mean,
113 1    |           our way, what was right or wrong in such societies.~Athenian.
114 1    |              way will turn out to be wrong, because done without the
115 1    |              though liable to take a wrong direction, is capable of
116 2    |           are right and their habits wrong, or whose habits are right
117 2    |              right and their natures wrong, and they praise one thing,
118 2    |            say that the not–doing of wrong and there being no wrong
119 2    |             wrong and there being no wrong done is good and honourable,
120 2    |            in it, and that the doing wrong is pleasant, but evil and
121 2    |              harmony and rhythm, and wrong when unsuitable.~Cleinias.
122 3    |             that you would have gone wrong.~Megillus. I am fortunate.~
123 3    |            distinctions of right and wrong which are made in a state
124 4    |          overflow with insolence and wrong. Which reflection led him
125 4    |             or not. Yet we should be wrong in requiring that all laws,
126 5    |             that law must clearly be wrong. Wherefore, also, the legislator
127 6    |              country, if they do any wrong to those of whom they have
128 6    |           and in regard to any other wrong which they do to the inhabitants
129 6    |         having intentionally decided wrong, let him go to the guardians
130 6    |          what involves insolence and wrong; for he cannot help leaving
131 7    |            any of them does anything wrong; and he who comes across
132 7    |           right and in what they are wrong.~Cleinias. Yes, I do.~Athenian.
133 7    |            attainable; and if we are wrong in our mode of speaking
134 8    |             in the first place do no wrong to one another, and ought
135 8    |             perfectly secure against wrong, unless he has become perfectly
136 8    |              or in case any one does wrong to any of the citizens or
137 8    |              the citizens or they do wrong to any other, up to fifty
138 9    |           any great or unmentionable wrong, either in relation to the
139 9    |          whether I am right or quite wrong in what I am going to say;
140 9    |          third. And in this way they wrong both posterity and themselves,
141 9    |              a slave who has done no wrong, because he is afraid that
142 9    |             or wife who are doing no wrong, he shall assuredly be guiltless.~
143 9    |           cast, he shall pay for the wrong three times over, but if
144 10   |           nature, which however is a wrong term for men to apply to
145 10   |             why is the word “nature” wrong?~Athenian. Because those
146 10   |             sun, we shall not be far wrong in supposing one of three
147 10   |          shall teach us that we were wrong in saying that the soul
148 11   |          their feelings of right and wrong. He who in any way shares
149 11   |            and they punish those who wrong the orphan and the desolate,
150 11   |        precedes the law, and does no wrong to an orphan, will never
151 11   |              the compensation of the wrong, let a man pay a further
152 11   |         offence: he who has done the wrong instigated by the folly
153 11   |              punished because he did wrong, for that which is done
154 12   |       magistrates is carried on in a wrong way, then, by the relaxation
155 12   |              the many are not so far wrong in their judgment of who
156 12   |            of them receive or do any wrong up to the sum of fifty drachmae,
157 12   |           and suffers if he has done wrong to any one, and receives


Lysis
    Part
158 Intro|              too obtrusively, at the wrong time, or in the wrong manner;
159 Intro|            the wrong time, or in the wrong manner; or the need of it
160 Text |          them; and that the poet was wrong who sings—~‘Happy the man
161 Text |             do not think that he was wrong.~You think that he is right?~
162 Text |             not have been altogether wrong in our conclusions?~I am
163 Text |            am sure that we have been wrong, Socrates, said Lysis. And
164 Text |        should never have gone so far wrong; let us proceed no further
165 Text |           are we not indeed entirely wrong?~How so? he replied.~Have


Menexenus
    Part
166 Text |          fathers and mothers have no wrong done to them. The city herself


Meno
    Part
167 Intro|           and no place for right and wrong. Individuality is accident.
168 Text |          have my answer, and if I am wrong, your business is to take
169 Text |            phrhonesis), this we were wrong.~MENO: What do you mean
170 Text |          What do you mean? Can he be wrong who has right opinion, so


Parmenides
    Part
171 Intro|            parts. And if so, we were wrong in saying that being has
172 Text |              prove to him that he is wrong, unless he who denies their
173 Text |              Certainly.~Then we were wrong in saying just now, that


Phaedrus
    Part
174 Intro|         Phaedrus. If I said what was wrong at first, please to attribute
175 Intro|           style, we shall not be far wrong in placing the Phaedrus
176 Text |              entertain you? Can I be wrong in supposing that Lysias
177 Text |              acknowledges that he is wrong in his mind, but says that
178 Text |             he conceived when in his wrong mind? Once more, there are
179 Text |          your words and actions in a wrong way; partly, because they


Philebus
    Part
180 Intro|              ideas, we can hardly be wrong in assuming, amid such a
181 Intro|           this element. We should be wrong in attributing to Plato
182 Intro|           terms, we shall not be far wrong in saying that here, as
183 Intro|          their thoughts of right and wrong in another mould; or the
184 Intro|            actions are made right or wrong by their consequences only;
185 Intro|           Are our ideas of right and wrong innate or derived from experience?
186 Intro|        determining what is right and wrong. The principles of morality,
187 Intro|              doubt that falsehood is wrong than that a stone falls
188 Intro|          opinion about the right and wrong of actions, but only about
189 Intro|            that actions are right or wrong only in so far as they tend
190 Intro|            because he has done him a wrong. There is an immeasurable
191 Intro|          certain acts to be right or wrong:—can there be any universality
192 Intro|          another. Right can never be wrong, or wrong right, that there
193 Intro|         Right can never be wrong, or wrong right, that there are no
194 Intro|         individuals to make right or wrong for themselves, but only
195 Text |            think that I shall be far wrong in speaking of the cause
196 Text |            we shall not say anything wrong or disrespectful of your
197 Text |              the opinion be right or wrong, makes no difference; it
198 Text |           distinct natures, they are wrong.~PROTARCHUS: But they are
199 Text |          There is nothing envious or wrong in rejoicing at the misfortunes
200 Text |              misfortunes—is not that wrong?~PROTARCHUS: Undoubtedly.~
201 Text |          wisdom, you will not be far wrong, if I divine aright.~PROTARCHUS:


Protagoras
    Part
202 Intro|             war:—because they form a wrong estimate of good, and honour,
203 Intro|            ought always to be in the wrong, and his adversary Socrates
204 Text |             reason, that he has done wrong, —only the unreasonable
205 Text |             not retaliate for a past wrong which cannot be undone;
206 Text |           may be deterred from doing wrong again. He punishes for the
207 Text |          himself; so that he must be wrong either in his first or his
208 Text |        pleasure, would not have been wrong. ‘But how,’ he will reply, ‘


The Republic
    Book
209 1    |           the city. ~You are not far wrong, I said. ~But do you see,
210 1    |            to injure those who do no wrong? ~Nay, Socrates; the doctrine
211 1    |            public; for which acts of wrong, if he were detected perpetrating
212 1    |            disgrace-they who do such wrong in particular cases are
213 1    |            myself. Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom
214 2    |       invisible, and never doing any wrong or touching what was another'
215 2    |          keep one another from doing wrong, but everyone would have
216 2    |            because afraid, if he did wrong, of harboring in himself
217 2    |              his father when he does wrong, in whatever manner, he
218 4    |         observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that temperance
219 4    |             man thinks he has done a wrong to another, the nobler he
220 4    |            he is the sufferer of the wrong, then he boils and chafes,
221 5    |              is right every other is wrong; and the evil is one which
222 5    |            opinion that the right or wrong management of such matters
223 6    |            that those who say so are wrong? ~I cannot tell, he replied;
224 6    |               he said; there you are wrong, for I was going to ask
225 7    |      professors of education must be wrong when they say that they
226 7    |           but has been turned in the wrong direction, and is looking
227 7    |           backward, for we have gone wrong in the order of the sciences. ~
228 8    |        making them see that they are wrong, or taming them by reason,
229 8    |          help it. ~True. ~We are not wrong therefore in calling them
230 8    |        informers, seeking to do them wrong, then at last they are forced
231 9    |                          BOOK IX: ON WRONG OR RIGHT GOVERNMENT, AND
232 9    |              you are beginning to go wrong. ~What do you mean? ~I do
233 9    |              the truth, as they have wrong ideas about many other things,
234 9    |             things, should also have wrong ideas about pleasure and
235 9    |               and the disapprover is wrong and false and ignorant? ~
236 10   |               He said that for every wrong which they had done to anyone


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
237 Text |        suspect that men are entirely wrong when they blame the gods


The Seventh Letter
    Part
238 Text |             obviously I was doing no wrong, but was the party wronged.~


The Sophist
    Part
239 Intro|              principles of right and wrong.~And still there is a track
240 Intro|             must surely be something wrong in the professor of any
241 Text |              there must be something wrong? The multiplicity of names
242 Text |            implies that we should be wrong in doing so.~STRANGER: But
243 Text |          STRANGER: But, if so, I was wrong in telling you just now


The Statesman
    Part
244 Intro|         think that I could have been wrong in supposing that the principal
245 Text |              cases in which they are wrong. In this way they have examples,
246 Text |            you and I will not be far wrong in trying to see the nature
247 Text |            will be a despot who will wrong and harm and slay whom he


The Symposium
    Part
248 Intro|           and he cannot do or suffer wrong; for all men serve and obey
249 Text |           Socrates, I should be very wrong in attributing to you, Agathon,
250 Text |            can neither do nor suffer wrong to or from any god or any


Theaetetus
    Part
251 Intro|            right and Socrates in the wrong. Like the hero of a novel,
252 Intro|         consistent. And we cannot be wrong in saying, first, that nothing
253 Intro|           Protagoras,—that right and wrong, holy and unholy, are to
254 Intro|        distance, put the foot in the wrong shoe—that is to say, put
255 Intro|             the seal or stamp on the wrong object: or 2ndly, when knowing
256 Intro|           men, not only of right and wrong in the abstract, but of
257 Intro|           abstract, but of right and wrong actions in reference to
258 Text |            all this, but it would be wrong for me to admit falsehood,
259 Text |       SOCRATES: I think that we were wrong in denying that a man could
260 Text |            he does not know. We were wrong before in denying the possibility
261 Text |            putting the foot into the wrong shoe— that is to say, putting
262 Text |              either of you on to the wrong impression, or if my mind,
263 Text |          general store, he takes the wrong one by mistake, that is
264 Text |           Socrates, we may have been wrong in making only forms of
265 Text |            distinguish the right and wrong birds, and which the owner
266 Text |      argument truly show that we are wrong in seeking for false opinion
267 Text |             THEAETETUS: And was that wrong?~SOCRATES: We shall soon


Timaeus
    Part
268 Intro|              his father’s horses the wrong way, and having burnt up
269 Intro|              true being; and equally wrong are we in saying that what
270 Intro|              been constructed.~I was wrong in imagining that all the
271 Intro|              bile. All things go the wrong way and cease to give nourishment
272 Intro|          their fine intelligences in wrong methods of enquiry; and
273 Intro|             number; and Plato is not wrong in attributing them to the
274 Text |             this we shall not be far wrong; as far, however, as we
275 Text |           making proclamation of any wrong assailing them from without
276 Text |      assumption by any of these of a wrong kind, or any similar irregularity,
277 Text |             substances proceeds in a wrong order; they are then destroyed.
278 Text |        phlegm. For all things go the wrong way, and having become corrupted,
279 Text |            the wicked voluntarily do wrong is not justly a matter for