The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |          your benefactor, and who desires leisure that he may instruct


Charmides
    Part
  2 Text |          itself, and of all other desires?~Certainly not.~Or can you


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|    happiness. The cultivated mind desires something more, which a
  4 Text |      SOCRATES: And there are many desires?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
  5 Text |        soul is liberated from the desires and evils of the body. Now


Gorgias
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  6 Intro|         Gorgias may be tired, and desires to answer for him. ‘Who
  7 Intro|         that a man should let his desires grow, and take the means
  8 Intro|         and to have all the other desires and to satisfy them, that,
  9 Intro|          And to indulge unnatural desires, if they are abundantly
 10 Intro|         his words and actions; he desires to implant justice and eradicate
 11 Intro|    suffering goodness which Plato desires to pourtray, not without
 12 Text |     ignorant of the pleasures and desires of mankind and of human
 13 Text |           live ought to allow his desires to wax to the uttermost,
 14 Text |          which is the seat of the desires is liable to be tossed about
 15 Text |          uninitiated in which the desires are seated, being the intemperate
 16 Text |       mean; he is to have all his desires about him, and to be able
 17 Text |           agree that all wants or desires are painful?~CALLICLES:
 18 Text |           satisfaction of our own desires and those of others; but
 19 Text |          the satisfaction of some desires makes us better, and of
 20 Text |       thirsty, and to satisfy his desires as he likes, but when he
 21 Text |         suffer him to satisfy his desires at all: even you will admit
 22 Text |        and unjust and unholy, her desires ought to be controlled,
 23 Text |        further affirm that he who desires to be happy must pursue
 24 Text |          as to transforming those desires and not allowing them to
 25 Text |      citizens and satisfied their desires, and people say that they


Laches
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 26 Text |         mighty to contend against desires and pleasures, either fixed
 27 Text |        and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and


Laws
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 28 1    |           pains and pleasures and desires, and the vehemence of all
 29 1    |        and pains, or also against desires and pleasures, and against
 30 3    |         and chief part of what he desires.~Megillus. He would.~Athenian.
 31 3    |           the opposite of what he desires. And if you would rather
 32 4    |     rebuking Agamemnon because he desires to draw down the ships to
 33 4    |         does for a state which he desires to be eminently prosperous;
 34 4    |         eager after pleasures and desires—wanting to be filled with
 35 5    |          victory of peace or war, desires to win the palm of obedience
 36 5    |           Pleasures and pains and desires are a part of human nature,
 37 5    |      gentle pleasures, and placid desires and loves not insane; whereas
 38 5    |         and vehement and stinging desires, and loves utterly insane;
 39 5    |           the increase of a man’s desires and not the diminution of
 40 5    |          that the true legislator desires to have the city the best
 41 6    |     legislator similar? First, he desires that his laws should be
 42 6    |           disorderly, and diverse desires of meats and drinks always,
 43 6    |       depend upon three wants and desires, of which the end is virtue,
 44 7    |           pleasures and pains and desires of individuals, which run
 45 7    |       want to know what an infant desires, judge by these signs?—when
 46 7    |           male or female, whom he desires; and he will know whom he
 47 8    |            will they abstain from desires which thrust many a man
 48 8    |           better of most of these desires; the prohibition of excessive
 49 8    |     regulating influence upon the desires in general. But how can
 50 8    |      possessed by this third love desires; moreover, he is drawn different
 51 8    |      which is of virtue and which desires the beloved youth to be
 52 8    |        extending to other sensual desires, and conquering them, would
 53 8    |           which arises out of the desires, whether rightly or wrongly
 54 8    |       passing along the road, and desires to eat, let him take of
 55 9    |          pain, and jealousies and desires, tyrannize over the soul,
 56 9    |       consisting of pleasures and desires, and a third of hopes, which
 57 9    |       influence of pleasures, and desires, and jealousies.~Cleinias.
 58 9    |          of wealth breeds endless desires of never–to–be–satisfied
 59 9    |           done something which he desires that no one should know
 60 10   |          he is by the bent of his desires and the nature of his soul.~
 61 11   |        when assailed by wants and desires, are able to hold out and
 62 11   |          the very opposite: their desires are unbounded, and when
 63 12   |           one either young or old desires to travel anywhere abroad
 64 12   |         perfectly to show him who desires to learn and know or whose


Lysis
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 65 Text |     friendly; for that everything desires not like but that which
 66 Text |      unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the
 67 Text |           of thirst and the other desires,— that they will remain,
 68 Text |        even if evil perishes, the desires which are neither good nor
 69 Text |          a man love that which he desires and affects?~He must.~Then,
 70 Text |        friendship; for that which desires is dear to that which is
 71 Text |        But surely, I said, he who desires, desires that of which he
 72 Text |           I said, he who desires, desires that of which he is in want?~
 73 Text |          that no one who loves or desires another would ever have


Meno
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 74 Intro|          and as every one equally desires the good, the point of the
 75 Intro|          in the spirit of one who desires to include in his philosophy
 76 Text |          take it, is when he, who desires the honourable, is able
 77 Text |         SOCRATES: And does he who desires the honourable also desire
 78 Text |       knows evils to be evils and desires them notwithstanding?~MENO:
 79 Text |        But if there is no one who desires to be miserable, there is
 80 Text |        there is no one, Meno, who desires evil; for what is misery
 81 Text |           and I admit that nobody desires evil.~SOCRATES: And yet,
 82 Text |       telling me, Anytus, that he desires to attain that kind of wisdom


Phaedo
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 83 Intro|        the court.~The philosopher desires death—which the wicked world
 84 Intro|     nature of that death which he desires? Death is the separation
 85 Intro|          body—and the philosopher desires such a separation. He would
 86 Intro|           of his own weakness; he desires to be impartial, but he
 87 Intro|     unfulfilled, just as above he desires before he departs to compose
 88 Intro|         is good, and therefore he desires that all other things should
 89 Text |   deserves, or how he deserves or desires death. But enough of them:—
 90 Text |       runs away from his body and desires to be alone and by herself?~
 91 Text | fascinated by the body and by the desires and pleasures of the body,
 92 Text |       abstains from pleasures and desires and pains and fears, as
 93 Text |       joys or sorrows or fears or desires, he suffers from them, not
 94 Text |  threatening, now admonishing the desires, passions, fears, as if
 95 Text |  surroundings; but the soul which desires the body, and which, as


Phaedrus
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 96 Intro|         But of all the irrational desires or excesses the greatest
 97 Intro|         that which is led away by desires of a kindred nature to the
 98 Intro|        and hindered by the animal desires of the inferior or concupiscent
 99 Intro|        finally enjoyed the animal desires must be subjected.~The moral
100 Intro|      something is conceded to the desires, after they have been finally
101 Intro|          as great an enemy as the desires; and hence two things which
102 Text |          he ever imagine that the desires were good which he conceived
103 Text |         which my good friend here desires me to rehearse, in order
104 Text |       higher reason and the other desires, is called gluttony, and
105 Text |           personal beauty, by the desires which are her own kindred—
106 Text |       evident to all men, that he desires above all things to deprive


Philebus
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107 Intro|       gratification of our bodily desires constantly affords some
108 Intro|          argument is in play, and desires to intimate that there are
109 Intro|       human life. To this all our desires will be found to tend, and
110 Text |           the previous discussion desires an answer is, how they are
111 Text |         the like, in the class of desires?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
112 Text |    SOCRATES: Then he who is empty desires, as would appear, the opposite
113 Text |  experiences; for he is empty and desires to be full?~PROTARCHUS:
114 Text |          SOCRATES: And yet he who desires, surely desires something?~
115 Text |        yet he who desires, surely desires something?~PROTARCHUS: Of
116 Text |       thirst is emptiness; but he desires replenishment?~PROTARCHUS:
117 Text |         that the impulses and the desires and the moving principle
118 Text |     little while since, that when desires, as they are termed, exist
119 Text |         mankind have the greatest desires?~PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES:
120 Text |       that when a man is empty he desires to be full, and has pleasure
121 Text |           of sense in any one who desires to see a fair and perfect


Protagoras
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122 Intro|           he be better?’—Socrates desires to have a more precise answer.
123 Text |           that manner. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment
124 Text |        drinking and other sensual desires which are pleasant, and


The Republic
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125 1    |     behind, and said, Polemarchus desires you to wait. ~I turned round,
126 1    |        unlike, whereas the unjust desires more than both his like
127 2    |       which he who would be happy desires both for their own sake
128 2    |           guilt among men when he desires utterly to destroy a house." ~
129 4    |          of certain pleasures and desires; this is curiously enough
130 4    |         and complex pleasures and desires and pains are generally
131 4    |           the simple and moderate desires which follow reason, and
132 4    |         our State; and the meaner desires of the many are held down
133 4    |         held down by the virtuous desires and wisdom of the few. ~
134 4    |          of its own pleasures and desires, and master of itself, ours
135 4    |        hunger and thirst, and the desires in general, and again willing
136 4    |          that the soul of him who desires is seeking after the object
137 4    |     suppose a particular class of desires, and out of these we will
138 4    |         up and saying that no man desires drink only, but good drink,
139 4    |          so far as he is thirsty, desires only drink; for this he
140 4    |         observe that when a man's desires violently prevail over his
141 4    |     element to take part with the desires when reason decides that
142 5    |           let me ask: Does he who desires any class of goods, desire
143 6    |         awaiting us, which he who desires to see in what respect the
144 6    |           by experience, he whose desires are strong in one direction
145 6    |         channel. ~True. ~He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge
146 6    |      should study the tempers and desires of a mighty strong beast
147 7    |    general are concerned with the desires or opinions of men, or are
148 7    |           that which flatters his desires? ~He cannot. ~And from being
149 8    |        the gratification of their desires, stealing their pleasures
150 8    |    expenditure to them; his other desires he subdues, under the idea
151 8    |           found in him drone-like desires as of pauper and rogue,
152 8    |        will find that the natural desires of the drone commonly exist
153 8    |            in general, his better desires will be found to prevail
154 8    |  necessary? ~We are not. ~And the desires of which a man may get rid,
155 8    |         May we not say that these desires spend, and that the others
156 8    |        surfeited in pleasures and desires of this sort, and was the
157 8    |          slave of the unnecessary desires, whereas he who was subject
158 8    |          is changed by a class of desires coming from without to assist
159 8    |        from without to assist the desires within him, that which is
160 8    |     oligarchical, and some of his desires die, and others are banished;
161 8    |        then, again, after the old desires have been driven out, fresh
162 8    |   satisfactions of good and noble desires, and others of evil desires,
163 8    |       desires, and others of evil desires, and that he ought to use
164 9    |         by reason, and the better desires prevail over them-either
165 9    |         goes forth to satisfy his desires; and there is no conceivable
166 9    |       take part with his moderate desires, and the opposite party
167 9    |         every day and every night desires grow up many and formidable,
168 9    |        nothing left, must not his desires, crowding in the nest like
169 9    |           end of his passions and desires. ~Exactly. ~When such men
170 9    |         capable of doing what she desires; there is a gadfly which
171 9    |         in a fury of passions and desires? ~Impossible. ~Reflecting
172 9    |         vilest of mankind. He has desires which he is utterly unable
173 9    |  pleasures correspond; also three desires and governing powers. ~How
174 9    |     strength and vehemence of the desires of eating and drinking and
175 9    |        money-loving, because such desires are generally satisfied
176 9    |         the minds of fools insane desires of themselves; and they
177 9    |        the lustful and tyrannical desires are, as we saw, at the greatest
178 9    |         And the royal and orderly desires are nearest? ~Yes. ~Then
179 9    |            methinks, which he who desires may behold, and beholding,
180 10   |  themselves when they think their desires are opposed to their interests,


The Seventh Letter
    Part
181 Text |          men are quick in forming desires, which often take directions
182 Text |        pander to their wishes and desires and to advise them in what
183 Text |           the means of satisfying desires which I myself would sooner


The Sophist
    Part
184 Intro|         the general. And she only desires to have a general name,
185 Text |     STRANGER: Every one then, who desires to answer truly, will adopt


The Statesman
    Part
186 Text |          pointed out when any one desires to answer an enquirer without
187 Text |  political constitution which she desires to create, but only in what


The Symposium
    Part
188 Intro|         him, and in him all their desires centre. The pair are inseparable
189 Intro|        for he is the ruler of the desires, and if he rules them he
190 Intro|    something, and that which love desires is not that which love is
191 Intro|        love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has.
192 Intro|    beautiful, love also wants and desires the good. Socrates professes
193 Intro|        with the beloved.~But Love desires the beautiful; and then
194 Intro|       desire of the beautiful? He desires, of course, the possession
195 Intro|        one kind of love. And Love desires not only the good, but the
196 Intro|       body as of the thoughts and desires of the mind; nay, even knowledge
197 Intro|          severed from the sensual desires, or may even be regarded
198 Intro|        absorb all other loves and desires in the love of knowledge.
199 Text |        objects of this love which desires only to gain an end, but
200 Text |       unlike, they have loves and desires which are unlike; and the
201 Text |        knowledge of the loves and desires of the body, and how to
202 Text |         matter so to regulate the desires of the epicure that he may
203 Text |          soul of either evidently desires and cannot tell, and of
204 Text |        ruler of the pleasures and desires, and no pleasure ever masters
205 Text |         want to know—whether Love desires that of which love is.~Yes,
206 Text |           that which he loves and desires?~Probably not, I should
207 Text |         The inference that he who desires something is in want of
208 Text |        something, and that he who desires nothing is in want of nothing,
209 Text |           Then, said Socrates, he desires that what he has at present
210 Text |      equivalent to saying that he desires something which is non-existent
211 Text |         Then he and every one who desires, desires that which he has
212 Text |        and every one who desires, desires that which he has not already,
213 Text |           because he was in want, desires those good and fair things
214 Text |         any need to ask why a man desires happiness; the answer is
215 Text |        habits, tempers, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, fears,
216 Text |         when he comes to maturity desires to beget and generate. He


Theaetetus
    Part
217 Intro|         The philosopher naturally desires to pour forth the thoughts
218 Text |        the advocate of Protagoras desires; and give the truth of the


Timaeus
    Part
219 Intro|          philosophers.~And now he desires to see the ideal State set
220 Intro|         reason in restraining the desires. The heart is the house
221 Intro|        The part of the soul which desires meat and drink was placed
222 Intro|         and quickening the animal desires. The only security is to
223 Intro|          the gratification of his desires and cherishes the mortal
224 Text |   controlling and restraining the desires when they are no longer
225 Text |          being perpetrated by the desires within, quickly the whole
226 Text |        The part of the soul which desires meats and drinks and the
227 Text |      might strike terror into the desires, when, making use of the
228 Text |         pleasure and pain and the desires which accompany them. For
229 Text |     obtains many pleasures in his desires and their offspring, and
230 Text |         inasmuch as there are two desires natural to man,—one of food