The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |              what you value far more—actions. Let me relate to you a
  2 Text |            always the same in all my actions, public as well as private,
  3 Text |         which he observes in all his actions. What shall be done to such


Charmides
    Part
  4 Intro|          business, the doing of good actions, the dialogue passes onto
  5 Text |          Then, I said, in all bodily actions, not quietness, but the
  6 Text |            very seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better
  7 Text |         supposing that of the nobler actions, there are as many quiet,
  8 Text |         which you would use, of good actions, is temperance?~I do, he
  9 Text |              to be the doing of good actions.~And you may be very likely


Cratylus
    Part
 10 Intro|             And not only things, but actions, have distinct natures,
 11 Intro|            fail;—this is true of all actions. And speaking is a kind
 12 Intro|             their lives and of their actions as links in a chain of causes
 13 Intro|            collective and individual actions or processes, and not attribute
 14 Intro|              imitations of things or actions in sound, although a letter
 15 Text |        themselves, or equally to the actions which proceed from them?
 16 Text |           proceed from them? Are not actions also a class of being?~HERMOGENES:
 17 Text |          being?~HERMOGENES: Yes, the actions are real as well as the
 18 Text |           things.~SOCRATES: Then the actions also are done according
 19 Text |           And this holds good of all actions?~HERMOGENES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 20 Text |            SOCRATES: And we saw that actions were not relative to ourselves,


Critias
    Part
 21 Text |             are preserved, but their actions have disappeared by reason
 22 Text |              very little about their actions. The names they were willing
 23 Text |        preserved to us and not their actions. This I infer because Solon


Crito
    Part
 24 Text |           care for virtue in all his actions, like yourself. And indeed,


Euthyphro
    Part
 25 Text |           and by which I may measure actions, whether yours or those


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 26 Text |           and have your thoughts and actions fixed upon them, look away


Gorgias
    Part
 27 Intro|             have to do with external actions. Socrates extends this distinction
 28 Intro|           conforms all his words and actions; he desires to implant justice
 29 Intro|              breadth the morality of actions which are right or wrong
 30 Intro|            the consequences of their actions:—if they are lovers of pleasure,
 31 Intro|              the consequences of our actions, and we can only foresee
 32 Intro|              consequences of his own actions, until at length they are
 33 Intro|           principle applies to human actions generally. Not to have been
 34 Intro|      intentions, and even benevolent actions, when they are not prompted
 35 Intro|          will, but what we wish. All actions of which the consequences
 36 Intro| contemplation of the consequences of actions, and the ignorance of men
 37 Intro|          matters. In his most secret actions he can show the same high
 38 Text |              in our words and in our actions: and now, if I and Gorgias
 39 Text |              benefit to a man if his actions turn out to his advantage,
 40 Text |             unjust or doer of unjust actions is miserable in any case,—
 41 Text |            that his and their unjust actions may be made manifest, and
 42 Text |             have agreed that all our actions are to be done for the sake
 43 Text |           good is the end of all our actions, and that all our actions
 44 Text |            actions, and that all our actions are to be done for the sake
 45 Text |         souls of men, and in all his actions, both in what he gives and
 46 Text |             used by him, and all his actions should be done always, with


Ion
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 47 Text |           poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself


Laches
    Part
 48 Intro|           from Socrates, because his actions, in the true Dorian mode,
 49 Intro|            Dorian mode’ of words and actions; for their words are all
 50 Intro|            confusion, although their actions are courageous. Still they
 51 Intro|             only acquainted with his actions. Laches is the admirer of
 52 Text |           faithful witnesses and for actions like those which they praise.
 53 Text |           his words. But a man whose actions do not agree with his words
 54 Text |            and in many other similar actions, or rather which we possess
 55 Text |             by the term ‘courageous’ actions which I call rash;—my courageous
 56 Text |             call rash;—my courageous actions are wise actions.~LACHES:
 57 Text |          courageous actions are wise actions.~LACHES: Behold, Socrates,


Laws
    Book
 58 1    |       opposite ways, and to opposite actions; and herein lies the difference
 59 2    |         manners occurring in various actions, fortunes, dispositions—
 60 3    |               since they proclaim by actions that the ordinary distinctions
 61 3    |            may properly speak of the actions of that day. And I would
 62 4    |          praising and rewarding some actions and reproving others, and
 63 5    |           accomplish this. As to the actions of those who do evil, but
 64 6    |           than is fitting in all his actions, ought to desire to become
 65 6    |             is all abroad in all his actions, and beside himself both
 66 6    |            regard to the natures and actions of his slaves is undefiled
 67 7    |          souls or bodies, or for the actions which they perform. For
 68 8    |             state, creators of noble actions—let their poems be sung,
 69 8    |              one takes notice of his actions before the judges at the
 70 9    |            of unholy and treasonable actions, and to him who hearkens
 71 9    |              just men and things and actions, are all fair, and, if a
 72 9    |             the correlatives of just actions.~Cleinias. And what is the
 73 9    |         respect these two classes of actions differ from one another?
 74 9    |             whatsoever, two kinds of actions have been distinguished—
 75 9    |              now get five sources of actions; and for these five we will
 76 9    |       Athenian. There is one kind of actions done by violence and in
 77 9    |             day, and another kind of actions which are done in darkness
 78 9    |         passion, in the case of such actions we must begin by making
 79 9    |           informed themselves of the actions of the criminals, and they
 80 9    |              And we were saying that actions done from passion are of
 81 10   |             they will not make their actions conform to the copy which
 82 10   |              and primitive works and actions will be works of art; they
 83 10   |           When the king saw that our actions had life, and that there
 84 10   |           become happy; and in their actions, as in a mirror, you seemed
 85 10   |          secret performance of these actions—by raising temples and by
 86 11   |            purity in their religious actions. But if a man will not conform
 87 11   |         punishments are to be of all actions of theft and violence, and
 88 12   |            and sense, and in all her actions will proceed by mere chance.~
 89 12   |         learn and know or whose evil actions require to be punished and


Lysis
    Part
 90 Text |             tell me by what words or actions I may become endeared to


Menexenus
    Part
 91 Text |        memorial and a crown of noble actions, which are given to the
 92 Text |            set forth how noble their actions were, and how worthy of
 93 Text |              memories.~Such were the actions of the men who are here


Meno
    Part
 94 Text |            virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in


Phaedo
    Part
 95 Intro|   interrupted by them. Where are the actions worthy of rewards greater
 96 Intro|            supply the motives of our actions, or at any time seriously
 97 Intro|           the performance of certain actions. All these punishments are
 98 Text |             mind is the cause of the actions of Socrates, but who, when
 99 Text |             the causes of my several actions in detail, went on to show


Phaedrus
    Part
100 Intro|            in all their thoughts and actions. Something too of the recollections
101 Intro|           eyes the thoughts, wishes, actions of the other; how they saw
102 Text |           they praise your words and actions in a wrong way; partly,
103 Text |            these adorning the myriad actions of ancient heroes for the
104 Text |              view the affections and actions of the soul divine and human,


Philebus
    Part
105 Intro|           and pleasure the motive of actions. For the universal test
106 Intro|              universal test of right actions (how I know them) may not
107 Intro|     attention to the consequences of actions. Mankind were said by him
108 Intro|    acknowledge that a large class of actions are made right or wrong
109 Intro|            and under which all human actions are or may be included.
110 Intro|       animated. Neither in referring actions to the test of utility have
111 Intro|           for example in judging the actions of others, we have no hesitation
112 Intro|               That which alone makes actions either right or desirable
113 Intro|             now to begin classifying actions under the head of utility;
114 Intro|         ten-thousandth part of human actions. This is the domain of casuistry.
115 Intro|         about the right and wrong of actions, but only about the general
116 Intro|         minds.~When we are told that actions are right or wrong only
117 Intro|              patriotic or benevolent actions we can give a straightforward
118 Intro|         explained by the tendency of actions to promote happiness. Whence
119 Intro|      necessity of them? Why are some actions rather than others which
120 Intro|         instances, but in classes of actions. But is it not distracting
121 Intro|            s-breadth the morality of actions, which cannot be allowed
122 Intro|        concerned not with particular actions but with classes of actions,
123 Intro|          actions but with classes of actions, is the tendency of actions
124 Intro|          actions, is the tendency of actions to happiness a principle
125 Intro|            in the law which measures actions by their tendencies towards
126 Intro|             right, that there are no actions which tend to the happiness
127 Intro|              not only that all right actions tend to happiness, but that
128 Intro|             differ in kind, and that actions are already classified;
129 Intro|           motive, now as the test of actions, and sometimes varying in
130 Intro|             partial account of human actions: it is one among many theories
131 Intro|              the argument that these actions regarded as a class will
132 Intro|             of an army. For in human actions men do not always require
133 Intro|       relates to the consequences of actions, we still have to consider
134 Intro|             one half of our virtuous actions into the likeness of the
135 Intro|               the reference of human actions to the standard of the better
136 Text |             introducing degrees into actions, instituting a comparison


Protagoras
    Part
137 Text |             He assented.~And foolish actions are done by folly, and temperate
138 Text |              by folly, and temperate actions by temperance?~He agreed.~
139 Text |          does evil and dishonourable actions; but they are very well
140 Text |              at another, both in our actions and in our choice of things
141 Text |             say to this? Are not all actions honourable and useful, of
142 Text |             good; for all honourable actions we have admitted to be good.~


The Republic
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143 1    |          pilot. ~And in what sort of actions or with a view to what result
144 2    |              god among men. Then the actions of the just would be as
145 2    |             the just would be as the actions of the unjust; they would
146 3    |             be dishonored by similar actions; neither will he rebuke
147 3    |            as of performing well the actions of which the imitations
148 3    |        upward, and make them perform actions in which they are most likely
149 4    |          accompany them in all their actions and be a principle of growth
150 4    |               or the commencement of actions, and the appointment of
151 4    |             disease. ~Yes. ~And just actions cause justice, and unjust
152 4    |            cause justice, and unjust actions cause injustice? ~That is
153 5    |           wholly or partially in the actions of men, or not at all? And
154 5    |            ought to perform the same actions?" What defence will you
155 5    |              shall they in all their actions be true to the name? For
156 5    |            combinations of them with actions and things and with one
157 6    |             makes the end of all his actions, having a presentiment that
158 7    |             is the rule of all their actions, private as well as public;
159 8    |              the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the
160 10   |               Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
161 Text |           own citizens,—and of their actions we have been not hearers,


The Sophist
    Part
162 Intro|      individuals and their lives and actions. In all things, if we leave
163 Text |              set on those who do the actions, we call a noun.~THEAETETUS:


The Statesman
    Part
164 Intro|             is extended by us to all actions, to the tones of the voice,
165 Intro|              The complexity of human actions and also the uncertainty
166 Text |           The differences of men and actions, and the endless irregular
167 Text |           seems to influence all our actions: we must examine it.~YOUNG
168 Text |       corresponding to their several actions.~YOUNG SOCRATES: I agree.~
169 Text |        proper solemnity. Of all such actions we predicate not courage,
170 Text |          another in their respective actions; and if we pursue the enquiry,
171 Text |        affinities to either class of actions they distribute praise and
172 Text |             and blame,—praise to the actions which are akin to their


The Symposium
    Part
173 Intro|              well as of men. Now the actions of lovers vary, like every
174 Intro|            made a daily study of the actions of Socrates—to whom the
175 Intro|              the other affections or actions of men, he regards as varying
176 Intro|          because under the same name actions of the most different degrees
177 Text |     characters of the two Loves. Now actions vary according to the manner
178 Text |            singing and talking—these actions are not in themselves either
179 Text |            meanness or flattery; the actions of a lover have a grace
180 Text |           harmonious love in all his actions, a man honours the other
181 Text |              in concealing the lofty actions of Socrates when I come


Theaetetus
    Part
182 Intro|              at the thoughts, words, actions of ourselves and others.
183 Intro|              an infinity of separate actions. The individual never reflects
184 Intro|      sensations, feelings, thoughts, actions, to ourselves, which is
185 Intro|    expression. As the differences of actions begin to be perceived, more
186 Intro|              observation of external actions, being the actions not only
187 Intro|          external actions, being the actions not only of ourselves, but
188 Intro|             sense that our thoughts, actions, sufferings, are our own.
189 Intro|               but of right and wrong actions in reference to themselves


Timaeus
    Part
190 Intro|            related to ancient famous actions of the Athenian people,
191 Intro|          have once had of the famous actions of mankind perish in the
192 Intro|              virtue, and many famous actions are recorded of you. The
193 Intro|          senses can judge of his own actions,’ is approved by modern
194 Intro|      themselves; and therefore human actions, in so far as they are dependent
195 Text |              by the greatness of her actions and the magnanimity of her
196 Text |           said, great and marvellous actions of the Athenian city, which
197 Text |           informed—if there were any actions noble or great or in any