Charmides
    Part
  1 PreS |               idea’ or ‘class,’ (Greek), ‘temperance’ or ‘prudence,’—at the point
  2 Intro|               subject of the Charmides is Temperance or (Greek), a peculiarly
  3 Intro|                   different places either Temperance or Wisdom, as the connection
  4 Intro|               asked by Socrates, ‘What is Temperance?’ He answers characteristically, (
  5 Intro| characteristically, (1) ‘Quietness.’ ‘But Temperance is a fine and noble thing;
  6 Intro|                   again and says (2) that temperance is modesty. But this again
  7 Intro|                 application of Homer: for temperance is good as well as noble,
  8 Intro|              Critias must be the author: ‘Temperance is doing one’s own business.’
  9 Intro|               doing his own business; and temperance defined thus would be opposed
 10 Intro|                   exclusively good sense: Temperance is doing one’s own business;—(
 11 Intro|                   a fifth definition, (5) Temperance is self-knowledge. But all
 12 Intro|           medicine—what is the subject of temperance or wisdom? The answer is
 13 Intro|                    The answer is that (6) Temperance is the knowledge of what
 14 Intro|                   knowledge which we term Temperance is of this reflex nature,
 15 Intro|                   and the knowledge which temperance gives must be of a kind
 16 Intro|                which will do us good; for temperance is a good. But this universal
 17 Intro|                ascertaining the nature of temperance, which Charmides has already
 18 Intro|              contained in the notion that temperance is ‘doing one’s own business,’
 19 Intro|                 as the definition, not of temperance, but of justice; (5) The
 20 Intro|             Socrates of any definition of temperance in which an element of science
 21 Intro|                The preceding definition, ‘Temperance is doing one’s own business,’
 22 Intro|            conclusion.~The definitions of temperance proceed in regular order
 23 Intro|                   of the word (Greek), or temperance. From the ethical notion
 24 Intro|                From the ethical notion of temperance, which is variously defined
 25 Intro|                  a light on the nature of temperance, and that, unlike the distinction
 26 Text |                             CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
 27 Text |                   fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul,
 28 Text |          implanted in the soul, and where temperance is, there health is speedily
 29 Text |                  and this, as you say, is temperance?~Yes, I said.~Then let me
 30 Text |                them. If to beauty you add temperance, and if in other respects
 31 Text |           declares, you have this gift of temperance already, and are temperate
 32 Text |                   you not this quality of temperance?~Charmides blushed, and
 33 Text |             asking you a question; for if temperance abides in you, you must
 34 Text |               conjecture whether you have temperance abiding in you or not, tell
 35 Text |                 what, in your opinion, is Temperance?~At first he hesitated,
 36 Text |                   he said that he thought temperance was doing things orderly
 37 Text |               answer that, in my opinion, temperance is quietness.~Are you right,
 38 Text |                 you would not acknowledge temperance to be of the class of the
 39 Text |                    Yes, certainly.~And is temperance a good?~Yes.~Then, in reference
 40 Text |                   be the higher degree of temperance, if temperance is a good?~
 41 Text |                  degree of temperance, if temperance is a good?~True, he said.~
 42 Text |                    Clearly they are.~Then temperance is not quietness, nor is
 43 Text |                    even if we grant this, temperance will not be acting quietly
 44 Text |                  the unquiet, seeing that temperance is admitted by us to be
 45 Text |                 consider the effect which temperance has upon yourself, and the
 46 Text |              brave youth, tell me—What is temperance?~After a moment’s pause,
 47 Text |                opinion is, Socrates, that temperance makes a man ashamed or modest,
 48 Text |               ashamed or modest, and that temperance is the same as modesty.~
 49 Text |                 not admit, just now, that temperance is noble?~Yes, certainly,
 50 Text |                  And you would infer that temperance is not only noble, but also
 51 Text |                 is not good?~Clearly.~But temperance, whose presence makes men
 52 Text |                 And the inference is that temperance cannot be modesty—if temperance
 53 Text |           temperance cannot be modesty—if temperance is a good, and if modesty
 54 Text |               about another definition of temperance, which I just now remember
 55 Text |                 some one, who said, ‘That temperance is doing our own business.’
 56 Text |                  course, he replied.~Then temperance, I said, will not be doing
 57 Text |              saying, he who declared that temperance is a man doing his own business
 58 Text |                   heard this answer about temperance from Critias. And Charmides,
 59 Text |              author of this definition of temperance did not understand the meaning
 60 Text |                  accept his definition of temperance, I would much rather argue
 61 Text |               proposes as a definition of temperance, ‘doing one’s own business,’
 62 Text |                  use, of good actions, is temperance?~I do, he said.~Then not
 63 Text |                   good, and not evil: for temperance I define in plain words
 64 Text |                 are ignorant of their own temperance?~I do not think so, he said.~
 65 Text |                not know his own wisdom or temperance?~But that, Socrates, he
 66 Text |                  prove, if you deny, that temperance is self-knowledge.~Yes,
 67 Text |                replied, and discover that temperance, or wisdom, if implying
 68 Text |                  a similar question about temperance, or wisdom, which, according
 69 Text |             worthy of the name wise, does temperance or wisdom, which is the
 70 Text |                  asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from the other sciences,
 71 Text |                    And this is wisdom and temperance and self-knowledge—for a
 72 Text |                 which is called wisdom or temperance is included. I altogether
 73 Text |          acknowledge this to be wisdom or temperance, until I can also see whether
 74 Text |                   have an impression that temperance is a benefit and a good.
 75 Text |        Callaeschrus, as you maintain that temperance or wisdom is a science of
 76 Text |                 are right in your view of temperance.~Critias heard me say this,
 77 Text |               knows health;—not wisdom or temperance, but the art of medicine
 78 Text |                   neither, from wisdom or temperance: and the same of other things.~
 79 Text |                Then, assuredly, wisdom or temperance, if only a science of science,
 80 Text |                   any longer in wisdom or temperance which yet remains, if this
 81 Text |                  science is not wisdom or temperance, but a science of human
 82 Text |                 be of use, then wisdom or temperance will not be of use.~And
 83 Text |                   names gave this name of temperance or wisdom. And yet many
 84 Text |                 be the true definition of temperance or wisdom: which result,
 85 Text |                beauty and such wisdom and temperance of soul, should have no
 86 Text |                 life from your wisdom and temperance. And still more am I grieved
 87 Text |                   enquirer, for wisdom or temperance I believe to be really a
 88 Text |                   this gift of wisdom and temperance; for how can I know whether
 89 Text |                shall have a proof of your temperance, that is, if you allow yourself


Euthydemus
    Part
 90 Text |                  said. What do you say of temperance, justice, courage: do you


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 91 Intro|               ought to aim at justice and temperance, not at wealth or power.
 92 Text |        inferiority; or if you look at the temperance and orderliness and ease
 93 Text |                   true.~SOCRATES: Then if temperance is the knowledge of self,


Gorgias
    Part
 94 Intro|                would be happy must pursue temperance and avoid intemperance,
 95 Text |              their pleasures, they praise temperance and justice out of their
 96 Text |                   truly base or evil than temperance—to a man like him, I say,
 97 Text |                 reputation of justice and temperance hinders from giving more
 98 Text |                   orderly:—and so we have temperance and justice: have we not?~
 99 Text |                away injustice, to implant temperance and take away intemperance,
100 Text |                  must pursue and practise temperance and run away from intemperance
101 Text |                acting so that he may have temperance and justice present with
102 Text |            friendship and orderliness and temperance and justice bind together
103 Text |                 possession of justice and temperance, and the miserable miserable
104 Text |                   no room for justice and temperance. And when the crisis of


Laches
    Part
105 Intro|               only have courage, but also temperance, justice, and every other
106 Text |                   For I say that justice, temperance, and the like, are all of
107 Text |               virtue, whether justice, or temperance, or holiness? He would possess


Laws
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108 1    |                same degree as justice and temperance and wisdom, when united
109 1    |                   goods, and next follows temperance; and from the union of these
110 1    |                them to be in harmony with temperance and justice, and not with
111 1    |                   for after courage comes temperance), what institutions shall
112 1    |                 shall we find relating to temperance, either in Crete or Lacedaemon,
113 1    |                 for the promotion both of temperance and courage.~Athenian. There
114 1    |                  we to suppose, that with temperance it is otherwise, and that
115 2    |                view to the enforcement of temperance, and in like manner, and
116 3    |                 consider when we say that temperance is to be the aim, or wisdom
117 3    |                 this particular virtue of temperance.~Megillus. What do you mean,
118 3    |                  does not grow apart from temperance?~Megillus. Impossible.~Athenian.
119 3    |               should like to know whether temperance without the other virtues,
120 3    |             Megillus. You are speaking of temperance?~Athenian. Yes; but of the
121 3    |                the scale, always assuming temperance to be the condition of them;
122 4    |                  Stranger speaks, must be temperance?~Athenian. Yes, Cleinias,
123 4    |                  Athenian. Yes, Cleinias, temperance in the vulgar sense; not
124 4    |               speech, and yet more in his temperance. This, however, according
125 4    |                   the greatest wisdom and temperance, then the best laws and
126 5    |                 praise may be given about temperance and wisdom, and all other
127 5    |               whole multitude of men lack temperance in their lives, either from
128 5    |              health has been preferred to temperance, or wealth to health and
129 7    |                inclines to moderation and temperance, may be declared both in
130 8    |                  gain in the direction of temperance, and the whole education
131 8    |                  seducer the principle of temperance? Who will ever believe this?—
132 8    |                   reverences and respects temperance and courage and magnanimity
133 8    |                    as being inspectors of temperance and violence, they should
134 10   |        destruction of us, and justice and temperance and wisdom are our salvation;
135 12   |                 are now speaking—courage, temperance, wisdom, justice?~Cleinias.
136 12   |                 affirm, in courage and in temperance, and in justice and in prudence,


Lysis
    Part
137 Intro|                 to the question, ‘What is Temperance?’ There are several resemblances


Menexenus
    Part
138 Text |                more renown for valour and temperance than the friends of others.


Meno
    Part
139 Intro|                 virtues, such as courage, temperance, and the like; just as round
140 Intro|        pre-existence of ideas of justice, temperance, and the like. Nor is Socrates
141 Intro|                  is friendship?’ ‘what is temperance?’ ‘what is courage?’ as
142 Intro|                  divine forms of justice, temperance, and the like, in their
143 Intro|              images or ideals of justice, temperance, holiness and the like;
144 Text |                   be well ordered without temperance and without justice?~MENO:
145 Text |                 or justly order them with temperance and justice?~MENO: Certainly.~
146 Text |                  have the same virtues of temperance and justice?~MENO: True.~
147 Text |               asked me.~MENO: Courage and temperance and wisdom and magnanimity
148 Text |                 SOCRATES: Then justice or temperance or holiness, or some other
149 Text |             saying just now that justice, temperance, and the like, were each
150 Text |               goods of the soul: they are temperance, justice, courage, quickness
151 Text |                   the same may be said of temperance and quickness of apprehension;


Parmenides
    Part
152 Intro|                   lost; ideas of justice, temperance, and good, are really distinguishable


Phaedo
    Part
153 Text |          philosopher?~Certainly.~There is temperance again, which even by the
154 Text |                superiority to them—is not temperance a virtue belonging to those
155 Text |            assuredly.~For the courage and temperance of other men, if you will
156 Text |                 happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures
157 Text |                  sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. And is not all
158 Text |                  of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage,
159 Text |                  virtues which are called temperance and justice, and are acquired
160 Text |                 in her own proper jewels, temperance, and justice, and courage,


Phaedrus
    Part
161 Intro|                 of the rational is called temperance, and the victory of the
162 Intro|            prospect, and beholds justice, temperance, and knowledge in their
163 Intro|                 of justice and wisdom and temperance and truth which she once
164 Intro|                 of honour and modesty and temperance, and a follower of true
165 Intro|                absolute forms of justice, temperance, and the like, which are
166 Intro|                 awe the forms of justice, temperance, holiness, yet finding them
167 Intro|                   great ideas of justice, temperance, wisdom, should be expressed
168 Text |            conquering principle is called temperance; but when desire, which
169 Text |                   infatuation, wisdom and temperance are his bosom’s lords; but
170 Text |                  she beholds justice, and temperance, and knowledge absolute,
171 Text |                 is no light of justice or temperance or any of the higher ideas
172 Text |                 of honour and modesty and temperance, and the follower of true


Philebus
    Part
173 Intro|                   pleasures of health and temperance, which are the handmaidens
174 Intro|                 of morals, the virtues of temperance and benevolence with another.
175 Text |                  has pleasure in his very temperance,—that the fool is pleased
176 Text |           pleasures in wantonness than in temperance? Reflect before you speak.~
177 Text |             pleasure; and that courage or temperance or understanding, or any
178 Text |                which accompany health and temperance, and which every Virtue,


Protagoras
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179 Intro|                  folly is also opposed to temperance; and therefore temperance
180 Intro|                 temperance; and therefore temperance and wisdom are the same.
181 Intro|               nearly the same as justice. Temperance, therefore, has now to be
182 Text |                   potter, but justice and temperance and holiness and, in a word,
183 Text |               were speaking, justice, and temperance, and holiness, and all these
184 Text |               whole, of which justice and temperance and holiness are parts;
185 Text |                  or like courage, or like temperance, or like holiness?~No, he
186 Text |              temperate?~Yes, he said.~And temperance makes them temperate?~Certainly.~
187 Text |                  and temperate actions by temperance?~He agreed.~And that is
188 Text |                   temperately was done by temperance, and that which was done
189 Text |                  And one thing is done by temperance, and quite another thing
190 Text |                  folly is the opposite of temperance?~Clearly.~And do you remember
191 Text |                   wisdom is distinct from temperance, and that both of them are
192 Text |                  two opposites—wisdom and temperance? Is not that true, Protagoras?
193 Text |               with great reluctance.~Then temperance and wisdom are the same,
194 Text |                 let that be admitted.~And temperance is good sense?~Yes.~And
195 Text |                  was this: Are wisdom and temperance and courage and justice
196 Text |                    including justice, and temperance, and courage,— which tends


The Republic
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197 3    |                 not the chief elements of temperance, speaking generally, obedience
198 3    |                but they do not conduce to temperance. And therefore they are
199 3    |                 is it fit or conducive to temperance for a young man to hear
200 3    |                courage, and the strain of temperance; these, I say, leave. ~And
201 3    |               know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence,
202 3    |                  pleasure any affinity to temperance? ~How can that be? he replied;
203 3    |                   music was the parent of temperance in the soul; and simplicity
204 3    |               which, as we said, inspires temperance, will be reluctant to go
205 3    |                  warriors, who are men of temperance and courage; they should
206 4    |            discovered in the State-first, temperance, and then justice, which
207 4    |                 troubling ourselves about temperance? ~I do not know how that
208 4    |                   be brought to light and temperance lost sight of; and therefore
209 4    |                  the favor of considering temperance first. ~Certainly, I replied,
210 4    |                present see, the virtue of temperance has more of the nature of
211 4    |            preceding. ~How so? he asked. ~Temperance, I replied, is the ordering
212 4    |                  of itself, if the words "temperance" and "self-mastery" truly
213 4    |           themselves, in which class will temperance be found-in the rulers or
214 4    |                   wrong in our guess that temperance was a sort of harmony? ~
215 4    |                     Why so? ~Why, because temperance is unlike courage and wisdom,
216 4    |                 the other valiant; not so temperance, which extends to the whole,
217 4    |               Most truly then may we deem temperance to be the agreement of the
218 4    |                 when the other virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom are
219 4    |                political virtues, wisdom, temperance, courage. ~Yes, he said. ~
220 4    |               that is the true account of temperance whether in the State or
221 6    |                  truth, justice, courage, temperance, who are his kindred? ~The
222 6    |               will be of the company, and temperance will follow after? ~True,
223 6    |                   virtues, their courage, temperance, and the rest of them, every
224 6    |           unskilful artificer of justice, temperance, and every civil virtue? ~
225 6    |           absolute justice and beauty and temperance, and again at the human
226 6    |               several natures of justice, temperance, courage, and wisdom? ~Indeed,
227 6    |              already given of justice and temperance and the other virtues, we
228 7    |                 And, again, in respect of temperance, courage, magnificence,
229 8    |                   into exile by them, and temperance, which they nick-name unmanliness,
230 9    |                  until he has purged away temperance and brought in madness to
231 9    |                acquirement of justice and temperance and wisdom, more than the
232 9    |                 is likely thereby to gain temperance, but he will always desire


The Seventh Letter
    Part
233 Text |                extraordinary combination. Temperance also is out of the question
234 Text |           surprising. For a man of piety, temperance and wisdom, when dealing


The Statesman
    Part
235 Intro|                 and one part of virtue is temperance, and another courage. These
236 Intro|                with the softer element of temperance, which we may imagine to
237 Text |             STRANGER: And you would think temperance to be different from courage;
238 Text |                  these qualities, and the temperance and manliness of the opposite
239 Text |                 no share of manliness and temperance, or any other virtuous inclination,


The Symposium
    Part
240 Text |                  one another and blend in temperance and harmony, they bring
241 Text |                 perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among
242 Text |                exceedingly temperate, for Temperance is the acknowledged ruler
243 Text |                   courage and justice and temperance I have spoken, but I have
244 Text |             families, and which is called temperance and justice. And he who
245 Text |                   when he is opened, what temperance there is residing within!
246 Text |                  wondering at his natural temperance and self-restraint and manliness.


Theaetetus
    Part
247 Intro|                  What is justice? what is temperance? and the like. But there
248 Intro|            friendship in the Lysis, or of temperance in the Charmides. At length