Charmides
    Part
  1 Text |             not he who does his duty act temperately or wisely?~Yes,
  2 Text |          seem, in doing good, he may act wisely or temperately, and
  3 Text |             provided, would live and act according to knowledge,
  4 Text |      according to knowledge we shall act well and be happy, my dear
  5 Text |             not that which makes men act rightly and be happy, not


Cratylus
    Part
  6 Intro|              been absent; the others act the scene over again when
  7 Intro|             than in any other common act of mind and body. It is
  8 Intro|             precarious, and can only act uniformly when there is
  9 Intro|             arise from any conscious act of reflection that the accusative
 10 Intro|        history of language ceases to act upon individual words; but
 11 Text |         which is naturally fitted to act as a shuttle?~HERMOGENES:


Critias
    Part
 12 Text |         ruler who commanded them, to act otherwise than according


Crito
    Part
 13 Text |           differently; and this last act, or crowning folly, will
 14 Text |            SOCRATES: And he ought to act and train, and eat and drink
 15 Text |              are you not going by an act of yours to overturn us—


Euthydemus
    Part
 16 Text |           You think, I said, that to act with a wise man is more
 17 Text |            is more fortunate than to act with an ignorant one?~He
 18 Text |           err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or


Euthyphro
    Part
 19 Intro|              that in other cases the act precedes the state; e.g.
 20 Intro|         precedes the state; e.g. the act of being carried, loved,
 21 Intro|            between the state and the act, corresponding respectively
 22 Intro|      philoumenon and phileitai). The act is prior to the state (as
 23 Intro|             loved is preceded by the act of being loved. But piety
 24 Intro|          holiness is preceded by the act of being pious, not by the
 25 Intro|              being pious, not by the act of being loved; and therefore
 26 Text |              they dispute about some act which is called in question,
 27 Text |            agree in approving of his act? Prove to me that they do,
 28 Text |            be sure to prove that the act is unjust, and hateful to
 29 Text |              being loved follows the act of being loved, and not
 30 Text |             being loved, and not the act the state.~EUTHYPHRO: Certainly.~
 31 Text |              that when you do a holy act you make any of the gods


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 32 Text |           who acted justly must also act honourably.~SOCRATES: And
 33 Text |             suppose that we begin to act when we think that we know
 34 Text |            You and the state, if you act wisely and justly, will
 35 Text |              wisely and justly, will act according to the will of
 36 Text |            is bright and divine, and act with a view to them?~ALCIBIADES:
 37 Text |            SOCRATES: And so you will act rightly and well?~ALCIBIADES:
 38 Text |       security.~SOCRATES: But if you act unrighteously, your eye


Gorgias
    Part
 39 Intro|            premises. Thus the second act of the dialogue closes.
 40 Intro|             that the rhetorician may act unjustly. How is the inconsistency
 41 Intro|              suffered justly: if the act is just, the effect is just;
 42 Intro|           among men. But such ideals act powerfully on the imagination
 43 Intro|          than the perpetrators of an act of treachery or of tyranny.
 44 Intro|            accustom his followers to act together. Although he is
 45 Intro|              have wished to speak or act otherwise than he did in
 46 Intro|           blank to him. The greatest act of faith, the only faith
 47 Text |              one of those arts which act always and fulfil all their
 48 Text |              to our good, and if the act is not conducive to our
 49 Text |              under the idea that the act is for his own interests
 50 Text |            of the same nature as the act of him who strikes?~POLUS:
 51 Text |            but these are the men who act according to nature; yes,
 52 Text |             which you exhort me, and act what you call the manly
 53 Text |            by their teachers, should act unjustly by reason of the
 54 Text |           deficiency of speed do men act unjustly, but by reason


Laches
    Part
 55 Intro|          enemy of innovation; he can act but cannot speak, and is
 56 Text |              and Melesias and I will act upon your conclusions.~SOCRATES:


Laws
    Book
 57 1    |          good men, and that good men act nobly, and conquer their
 58 1    |             play, by word, deed, and act, will still be perfectly
 59 2    |       pleasure, but now by their own act the opposite result follows.
 60 5    |          manner in which a man is to act about his parents, and himself,
 61 5    |            is just, whether the just act be his own or that of another.
 62 5    |       because we will not let others act for us in what we do not
 63 5    |            know, we are compelled to act amiss ourselves. Wherefore
 64 5    |            some way see and hear and act in common, and all men express
 65 6    |        reasons given, should a state act which would endure and be
 66 6    |            what principle you are to act. Megillus and Cleinias and
 67 7    |           side weaker than the right act contrary to nature. In the
 68 7    |           the guardian of the law to act?~Athenian. In what respect?~
 69 9    |               He who is taken in the act of robbing temples, if he
 70 9    |              legislate about such an act under the idea that I am
 71 9    |            and are not sorry for the act. And, therefore, we must
 72 9    |              under the idea that his act was involuntary, let the
 73 9    |           who has done any murderous act should of necessity suffer
 74 10   |     punishment of those who speak or act insolently toward the Gods.
 75 10   |         intentionally did any unholy act, or uttered any unlawful
 76 10   |       whether he be God or man, must act from one of two principles.~
 77 10   |      possibly suppose that they ever act in the spirit of carelessness
 78 10   |            may do as they please and act according to their various
 79 10   |              information, refuses to act, he shall be tried for impiety
 80 10   |      estimate the punishment of each act of impiety; and let all
 81 11   |             the collection, he is to act on the understanding that
 82 11   |       sometimes unable to fulfil the act which he in his ignorance
 83 11   |            And how, Stranger, can we act most fairly under the circumstances?~
 84 11   |             to any other citizen, to act negligently or dishonestly,
 85 11   |        whether he may be supposed to act from a love of money or
 86 11   |             And if he is supposed to act from contentiousness, the
 87 11   |             and if he is supposed to act as be does from love of
 88 12   |          whether he be caught in the act or not, shall be punished


Menexenus
    Part
 89 Text |            purpose, they were in the act of attempting the other,
 90 Text |             I will mention only that act of theirs which appears
 91 Text |        guilty of the base and unholy act of giving up Hellenes to


Meno
    Part
 92 Intro|              but by a special divine act (compare Phaedrus), and


Parmenides
    Part
 93 Text |              was at home, and in the act of giving a bridle to a


Phaedo
    Part
 94 Intro|              the objection, the very act of birth may be the beginning
 95 Intro|        request he utters in the very act of death, which has been
 96 Text |      introducing or intruding in the act of thought sight or any
 97 Text |            is visible—for surely the act of dying is visible?~Surely,
 98 Text |             must surely have been an act of recollection?~Very true.~
 99 Text |              most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement
100 Text |             the earth—just as in the act of respiration the air is
101 Text |            down, and the poison will act. At the same time he handed


Phaedrus
    Part
102 Intro|        passion in the most important act of his or her life’? Who
103 Intro|         heart to heart, to speak and act only, and not to write,
104 Text |      acceptable to God and always to act acceptably to Him as far
105 Text |            know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in a manner


Philebus
    Part
106 Intro|             arises from a subsequent act of reflection, of which
107 Intro|          Mankind were said by him to act rightly when they knew what
108 Intro|            simple principle such as ‘Act so as to promote the happiness
109 Intro|           happiness of mankind,’ or ‘Act so that the rule on which
110 Intro|               and the omission of an act of charity or benevolence.
111 Intro|          non-detection of an immoral act, say of telling a lie, which
112 Intro|           makes none whatever in the act itself.~Again, if we are
113 Intro|            towards happiness? For an act which is the cause of happiness
114 Intro|        unhappiness to another; or an act which if performed by one
115 Intro|           happiness he would equally act as he does. We are speaking
116 Intro|          also the greatest freedom; ‘Act so that thy action may be


Protagoras
    Part
117 Intro|          many who know what is best, act contrary to their knowledge
118 Text |            will be able to speak and act for the best in the affairs
119 Text |          true, he said.~And when men act rightly and advantageously
120 Text |       Certainly.~And they who do not act rightly act foolishly, and
121 Text |          they who do not act rightly act foolishly, and in acting
122 Text |              agree, he said.~Then to act foolishly is the opposite
123 Text |           had got up, and was in the act of departure. Son of Hipponicus,
124 Text |              have said that when men act contrary to knowledge they
125 Text |           also aware that the erring act which is done without knowledge
126 Text |        motive from which the cowards act, do you call it cowardice


The Republic
    Book
127 1    |            or anyone else is not the act of a just man, but of the
128 1    |              gang of evildoers could act at all if they injured one
129 1    |             another, then they might act together better? ~Yes. ~
130 2    |           shall discover in the very act the just and unjust man
131 4    |            and poverty. ~How do they act? ~The process is as follows:
132 4    |             behavior of States which act like the men whom I was
133 4    |            same thing clearly cannot act or be acted upon in the
134 4    |      relation to the same thing, can act or be acted upon in contrary
135 4    |              the same part of itself act in contrary ways about the
136 4    |          nature, then he proceeds to act, if he has to act, whether
137 4    |        proceeds to act, if he has to act, whether in a matter of
138 4    |           profitable, to be just and act justly and practise virtue,
139 4    |             men, or to be unjust and act unjustly, if only unpunished
140 5    |             the lips only and not to act in the spirit of them? ~
141 5    |            or is guilty of any other act of cowardice, should be
142 7    |              upon which he who would act rationally either in public
143 7    |        latter, because they will not act at all except upon compulsion,
144 8    |            the keener sort speak and act, the rest keep buzzing about
145 9    |           guilty of any other horrid act. Love is his tyrant, and
146 9    |             should ever so speak and act as to give the man within


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
147 Text |          that you would ever wish to act towards your mother as they
148 Text |         affirms the contrary, if the act appear to you unfit even
149 Text |        result is beneficial, he will act advantageously both for
150 Text |            who know how to speak and act towards Gods and men. But


The Seventh Letter
    Part
151 Text |            and go, or how I ought to act; and finally the scale turned
152 Text |             will lay his hand to any act. Also there was reason to
153 Text |          acting, so far as a man can act, in obedience to reason
154 Text |              man that was willing to act righteously, and he by refusing
155 Text |   righteously, and he by refusing to act righteously during the whole
156 Text |             do any loyal or salutary act; but invite all others to
157 Text |          position, must by their own act and choice select from all
158 Text |            of those which are by the act of man drawn or even turned
159 Text |              the soul by word and in act that which it is not seeking (
160 Text |          whether by statement or the act of showing, fills, one may
161 Text |             at his disposal, he will act justly towards me, for it
162 Text |            regard me as empowered to act for Dion, but will along


The Statesman
    Part
163 Intro|           try to improve them, would act in the spirit of the law-giver.
164 Intro|             is spoken of as a divine act, and is at the same time
165 Intro|         protected by the law if they act rightly in their dealings
166 Intro|       honesty, but that it makes men act in the same way, and requires
167 Text |              increase it; while they act according to the rules of
168 Text |             whether young or old, to act contrary to the written
169 Text |              about the laws, were to act contrary to them from motives
170 Text |            pretends that he can only act for the best by violating
171 Text |              virtue and knowledge to act justly and holily to all;
172 Text |            royal ought not itself to act, but to rule over those
173 Text |           over those who are able to act; the king ought to know
174 Text |           Quite true.~STRANGER: They act on no true principle at


The Symposium
    Part
175 Intro|       suffering any cowardly or mean act. And a state or army which
176 Text |              doing any dishonourable act, or submitting through cowardice
177 Text |            not true; for they do not act thus from any want of shame,
178 Text |         neither when he acts does he act by force. For all men in
179 Text |               Man may be supposed to act thus from reason; but why
180 Text |            then we will consider and act as seems best about this


Theaetetus
    Part
181 Intro|              In modern language, the act of sensation is really indivisible,
182 Intro|             the facts which prove an act of violence, but he may
183 Intro|            the commission of such an act. Here the idea of true opinion
184 Intro|           thought, but united in any act of sensation, reflection,
185 Intro|              nature of man.~In every act of sense there is a latent
186 Intro|             up. This is the simplest act of memory. And as we cannot
187 Intro|        dependent on association. The act of recollection may be compared
188 Intro|            the mind, which begins to act upon them and to arrange
189 Intro|             are inseparable from the act of sense are really the
190 Intro|              instinctively and as an act of sense the differences
191 Intro|              an instant ago—that the act which we are performing
192 Intro|             he can hardly regard one act or part of his life as the
193 Intro|         cause or effect of any other act or part. Whether in practice
194 Intro|          separate them. They seem to act together; yet we feel that
195 Intro|              imagine,’ ‘I dream,’ ‘I act,’ ‘I endeavour,’ ‘I hope.’
196 Intro|      difficulty in distinguishing an act of sight or an act of will
197 Intro| distinguishing an act of sight or an act of will from an act of thought,
198 Intro|            or an act of will from an act of thought, although thought
199 Intro|            which thought passes into act, the conflict of passion
200 Intro|          deprived the mind ceases to act. It would seem as if the
201 Text |            there any stopping in the act of seeing and hearing?~THEODORUS:


Timaeus
    Part
202 Intro|             Timaeus, not as a single act, but as a work or process
203 Intro|         moving, may be truly said to act, equally with them. (6)
204 Intro|           object, this is the simple act of sight. When the particles
205 Intro|       inflammatory substances,—these act upon the testing instruments
206 Intro|          seems to appear only in the act of creation. In so far as
207 Text |             man who has his wits can act or judge about himself and
208 Text |            through the mouth did not act, the streams of the mouth