The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |           the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreF |            my deep respect for his noble and gentle character, and
  3 Intro|           Temperance is a fine and noble thing; and quietness in
  4 Intro|      temperance is good as well as noble, and Homer has declared
  5 Text |          said Critias.~If he has a noble soul; and being of your
  6 Text |           no one, however rich, or noble, or fair, persuade you to
  7 Text |          to be of the class of the noble and good?~Yes.~But which
  8 Text |    admitted by us to be a good and noble thing, and the quick have
  9 Text |            now, that temperance is noble?~Yes, certainly, he said.~
 10 Text |        that temperance is not only noble, but also good?~That is


Cratylus
    Part
 11 Text |          king, the good son or the noble son of a good or noble sire;
 12 Text |         the noble son of a good or noble sire; and similarly the
 13 Text |         made of gold, but good and noble; and I am convinced of this,
 14 Text |           this is easy enough; the noble breed of heroes are a tribe
 15 Text |         knowledge (eidenai) of all noble things.~HERMOGENES: Very


Critias
    Part
 16 Intro|        than Plato how to invent ‘a noble lie.’ Observe (1) the innocent
 17 Text |         lovers of honour, and of a noble nature, and had a soil the


Euthydemus
    Part
 18 Text |           I beseech you, what that noble study is?~The teaching of
 19 Text |          strong man?~A weak man.~A noble man or a mean man?~A mean
 20 Text |            the art of the general, noble arts?~CRITO: Certainly they


Euthyphro
    Part
 21 Text |          the quarrels of the gods, noble Euthyphro, when they occur,
 22 Text |           love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 23 Text |        great, good or ill-looking, noble or ignoble—makes no difference.~
 24 Text |   injustice, gets up to advise the noble Athenians or the ignoble
 25 Text |           And how unworthy of your noble form and your high estate!~
 26 Text |         you mean to accomplish any noble action really worthy of
 27 Text |       fitness to contend in such a noble arena: there is no reason
 28 Text |          are likely to be found in noble races or not in noble races?~
 29 Text |           in noble races or not in noble races?~ALCIBIADES: Clearly
 30 Text |             ALCIBIADES: Clearly in noble races.~SOCRATES: Are not
 31 Text |          Zeus!~SOCRATES: And mine, noble Alcibiades, to Daedalus,
 32 Text |            spoiled by them. Many a noble Athenian has been ruined


Gorgias
    Part
 33 Intro|            is opposed the true and noble art of life which he who
 34 Intro|            giving utterance to any noble sentiments.~For you, Socrates,
 35 Intro|         the play, that you have ‘a noble soul disguised in a puerile
 36 Intro|            new dignity; he finds a noble expression for the common-places
 37 Intro|        without a true sense of the noble purposes to which art may
 38 Intro|            have attained to such a noble conception of God and of
 39 Intro|             11) the parable of the noble captain, the pilot, and
 40 Intro|          of language is puerile or noble depends upon the genius
 41 Text |            of politics.~POLUS: And noble or ignoble?~SOCRATES: Ignoble,
 42 Text |             SOCRATES: There again, noble Polus, you are raising hobgoblins
 43 Text |        aspire to anything great or noble. But if I see him continuing
 44 Text |            you~‘Who have a soul so noble, are remarkable for a puerile
 45 Text |         should rule the worse, the noble have more than the mean?
 46 Text |    Republic.)~SOCRATES: There is a noble freedom, Callicles, in your
 47 Text |   declamation; the other, which is noble and aims at the training
 48 Text |           want you to see that the noble and the good may possibly
 49 Text |         help of Callicles good and noble? Was there ever such a man,
 50 Text |         not the State had good and noble citizens? and when I ask
 51 Text |        luxury, who have no good or noble notions of their art, and
 52 Text |    flatterer? well, sir, that is a noble invitation.~CALLICLES: The


Ion
    Part
 53 Text |          his oracles. Many are the noble words in which poets speak


Laches
    Part
 54 Text |            the lads about the many noble deeds which our own fathers
 55 Text |           where the youth have any noble study or pursuit, such as
 56 Text |           man to the love of other noble lessons; for every man who
 57 Text |           under your care good and noble? For if this is your first
 58 Text |           deeds show that free and noble sentiments are natural to
 59 Text |      consider courage to be a very noble quality.~LACHES: Most noble,
 60 Text |        noble quality.~LACHES: Most noble, certainly.~SOCRATES: And
 61 Text |         endurance is also good and noble?~LACHES: Very noble.~SOCRATES:
 62 Text |            and noble?~LACHES: Very noble.~SOCRATES: But what would
 63 Text |          SOCRATES: And is anything noble which is evil and hurtful?~
 64 Text |          be courage— for it is not noble, but courage is noble?~LACHES:
 65 Text |          not noble, but courage is noble?~LACHES: You are right.~
 66 Text |           was acknowledged to be a noble quality.~LACHES: True.~SOCRATES:


Laws
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 67 1    |        alive.~Athenian. Yes, and a noble reputation it was, worthy
 68 2    |           as he ought, by fair and noble words, in his rhythms, the
 69 2    |           him who accomplishes all noble things, not having justice;
 70 2    |    mistaken, what is that good and noble principle in life which
 71 2    |           and men, though good and noble, are nevertheless unpleasant,
 72 2    |          just and the good and the noble has an excellent moral and
 73 2    |    Cleinias. Truth, Stranger, is a noble thing and a lasting, but
 74 2    |           in their strains all the noble thoughts of which we have
 75 2    |       profitable, the good and the noble, are qualities which the
 76 2    |         infuse into him a just and noble fear, which will take up
 77 3    |           destruction of great and noble interests, than are here
 78 3    |           expedition, which was so noble, and might have had such
 79 3    |           how to use his great and noble possession, how happy would
 80 3    | nevertheless thinks to be good and noble, and loves and embraces
 81 3    |     follows the principle that the noble should rule over the ignoble;
 82 4    |         the attainment of just and noble sentiments: this was said
 83 4    |            and of a courageous and noble nature; let him have that
 84 4    |           memory, courageous, of a noble nature?~Athenian. Yes; and
 85 4    |         elder the younger, and the noble the ignoble? And there were
 86 5    |        base and evil, the good and noble, according to the standard
 87 5    |           justice and the just are noble, whereas retribution is
 88 5    |         and no man who is not of a noble spirit is able to accomplish
 89 5    |          number and every good and noble quality. And, above all,
 90 5    |             while he who spends on noble objects, and acquires wealth
 91 6    |         suppose, their serious and noble pursuit?~Athenian. Perhaps;
 92 6    |           obeys this law will do a noble action; but he who will
 93 7    |           and is the exercise of a noble person and a manly heart;
 94 7    |           which are appropriate to noble bodies and generous souls.
 95 8    |         never in his life done any noble or illustrious action; but
 96 8    |          in the state, creators of noble actions—let their poems
 97 8    |           art of war, or any other noble aim, but makes the orderly
 98 8    |         allow him to become either noble, or rich, or strong, or
 99 8    |          person of the freeborn or noble class except his wedded
100 9    |        every man should honour the noble and the just. Fly from the
101 11   |        received the benefit of any noble service in war, does not
102 11   |        accordingly.~There are many noble things in human life, but
103 11   |         spoil them. Is not justice noble, which has been the civilizer
104 11   |           of justice be other than noble? And yet upon this profession
105 12   |       rather than a courageous and noble and blessed death—in such


Lysis
    Part
106 Intro|            is an Athenian youth of noble descent and of great beauty,
107 Intro|          his reach. He who is of a noble mind will dwell upon his
108 Text |        Hippothales, I said; what a noble and really perfect love


Menexenus
    Part
109 Text |       certainly in many respects a noble thing. The dead man gets
110 Text |           and by law ordained. For noble words are a memorial and
111 Text |            memorial and a crown of noble actions, which are given
112 Text |          then let us set forth how noble their actions were, and
113 Text |            a way of praising their noble birth.~The country is worthy
114 Text |          and private capacity many noble deeds famous over the whole
115 Text |            so, notwithstanding our noble sentiments, we were again
116 Text |           of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity,


Meno
    Part
117 Text |         opposite of fair; rich and noble, or the reverse of rich
118 Text |            the reverse of rich and noble? Do you think that I could?~
119 Text |          these are they who become noble kings and mighty men and
120 Text |         Pheidias, who created such noble works, or any ten other


Parmenides
    Part
121 Text |            philosophy is assuredly noble and divine; but there is


Phaedo
    Part
122 Intro|        they hardly know what. Many noble poems and pictures have
123 Intro|         Almighty ‘s praises, are a noble image, and may furnish a
124 Intro|            and his language are so noble and fearless. He is the
125 Text |          words and bearing were so noble and gracious, that to me
126 Text |           invisible, and pure, and noble, and on her way to the good
127 Text |        brine, neither is there any noble or perfect growth, but caverns


Phaedrus
    Part
128 Intro|          his two steeds, the one a noble animal who is guided by
129 Intro|          they cannot undertake any noble enterprise, such as makes
130 Intro|         the other, or how soon the noble but fleeting aspiration
131 Intro|           Order. Then again in the noble art of politics, who thinks
132 Intro|  fellow-servants, but his good and noble masters,’ like St. Paul
133 Text |         lover.~SOCRATES: O that is noble of him! I wish that he would
134 Text |           one who was himself of a noble and gentle nature, and who
135 Text |       inspired madness which was a noble thing; for the two words,
136 Text |           might tell of many other noble deeds which have sprung
137 Text |           the gods are all of them noble and of noble descent, but
138 Text |           all of them noble and of noble descent, but those of other
139 Text |           pair; and one of them is noble and of noble breed, and
140 Text |            of them is noble and of noble breed, and the other is
141 Text |     entitled a horse beginning: ‘A noble animal and a most useful
142 Text |           object) but his good and noble masters; and therefore if
143 Text |            A pastime, Socrates, as noble as the other is ignoble,


Philebus
    Part
144 Intro|  Protarchus, the son of Callias, a noble Athenian youth, sprung from
145 Intro|          other gods who have other noble attributes. Observe how
146 Intro|          absence of pain. They are noble fellows, and, although we
147 Intro|           other dependent; the one noble and majestic, the other
148 Intro|   intelligent being.’ This view is noble and elevating; but it seems
149 Text |        extreme detestation which a noble nature has of the power
150 Text |           there is nothing good or noble in the body, or in anything


Protagoras
    Part
151 Intro|           as Socrates admits, is a noble profession; but he is or
152 Text |            you do indeed possess a noble art, if there is no mistake
153 Text |        good-looking, and rich, and noble, they will not listen to
154 Text |        knowledge which makes a man noble and good; and I give my
155 Text |          think that knowledge is a noble and commanding thing, which
156 Text |          refuse the request of the noble Callias. So the conversation


The Republic
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157 2    |          with the testimony of the noble Hesiod and Homer, the first
158 2    |          and kneading them, making noble cakes and loaves; these
159 2    |        best. ~We must. ~Is not the noble youth very like a well-bred
160 2    |            to be a really good and noble guardian of the State will
161 3    |         soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly
162 3    |           son, and then only for a noble purpose, and he must first
163 3    |         all enchantments, and of a noble bearing always, good guardians
164 4    |            State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes
165 4    |         persevere and conquer. His noble spirit will not be quelled
166 4    |         sustaining the reason with noble words and lessons, and moderating
167 5    |             that the useful is the noble, and the hurtful is the
168 6    |        having first chained up the noble captain's senses with drink
169 6    |      description of the gentle and noble nature. Truth, as you will
170 6    |           except that the just and noble are the necessary, having
171 6    |          of a great city, rich and noble, and a tall, proper youth?
172 6    |            remnant: perchance some noble and welleducated person,
173 6    |            if ever, heard free and noble sentiments; such as men
174 6    |         highest accuracy! ~A right noble thought; but do you suppose
175 6    |          replied. ~True, he said. ~Noble, then, is the bond which
176 7    |             and is true. ~Then, my noble friend, geometry will draw
177 7    |           the fairest; and, having noble and generous tempers, they
178 8    |          friend. ~Yes, she is of a noble spirit. ~These and other
179 8    |          satisfactions of good and noble desires, and others of evil
180 9    |            powers, and fed them on noble thoughts and inquiries,
181 9    |       think you of things esteemed noble and ignoble? Is not the
182 9    |            and ignoble? Is not the noble that which subjects the
183 10   |      poetry which the education of noble States has implanted in
184 10   |           and evil consequences of noble and humble birth, of private


The Seventh Letter
    Part
185 Text |          which is wholly right and noble is to strive for that which


The Sophist
    Part
186 Intro|            and what not. This is a noble science, on which we have
187 Intro|          writings of Heracleitus— ‘Noble is that which I understand,
188 Intro|           not understand may be as noble; but the strength of a Delian
189 Text |            remember hearing a very noble discussion in which Parmenides
190 Text |         you mean?~STRANGER: Make a noble effort, as becomes youth,
191 Text |      unwittingly upon our free and noble science, and in looking
192 Text |            the pursuit of which is noble and also difficult.~THEAETETUS:


The Statesman
    Part
193 Text |         What images?~STRANGER: The noble pilot and the wise physician,
194 Text |          have education, something noble may be made, and who are
195 Text |           who were originally of a noble nature, and who have been
196 Text |          who have been nurtured in noble ways, and in those only,


The Symposium
    Part
197 Intro|       first of the two loves has a noble purpose, and delights only
198 Intro|        wealth; but the love of the noble mind is lasting. The lover
199 Intro|         his character; whereas the noble love of the other remains
200 Intro|        reasoning. He starts from a noble text: ‘That without the
201 Intro|    friendship of a great man for a noble youth into a connexion of
202 Intro|        attachments existing in any noble or virtuous form.~(Compare
203 Text |        only related to him; and so noble did this action of hers
204 Text |         whom, in admiration of her noble action, they have granted
205 Text |          but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy
206 Text |            has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise. The
207 Text |          in body or soul, and much noble enthusiasm may be thrown
208 Text |            whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long,
209 Text |        deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved
210 Text |            be nothing nobler. Thus noble in every case is the acceptance
211 Text |            would surely have built noble temples and altars, and
212 Text |          those who know him. And a noble and solemn hymn of praise
213 Text |           when he finds a fair and noble and well-nurtured soul,
214 Text |            given to the world many noble works, and have been the
215 Text |          will create many fair and noble thoughts and notions in


Theaetetus
    Part
216 Intro|            ready acceptance of the noble words of Socrates, are noticeable
217 Intro|           now I was hearing of his noble conduct in the battle.’ ‘
218 Intro|        consistency. His simple and noble thoughts, like those of
219 Text |             Yes, Terpsion, he is a noble fellow; only to-day I heard
220 Text |         forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth. And like
221 Text |          becomes?—the good and the noble, as well as all the other
222 Text |            you say the same of the noble and base, and of good and
223 Text |           base in the place of the noble, or the noble in the place
224 Text |         place of the noble, or the noble in the place of the base,
225 Text |        saying to yourself that the noble is certainly base, or the
226 Text |             that no one thinks the noble to be base, or anything
227 Text |      reason; for to think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.~
228 Text |          thinks that he has made a noble discovery.~THEAETETUS: I
229 Text |       which follow from it are all noble and good.~SOCRATES: He who
230 Text |         but they must be young and noble and fair.~And now I have


Timaeus
    Part
231 Intro|             The subject was a very noble one; he described the most
232 Text |          if there were any actions noble or great or in any other