Charmides
    Part
  1 Text |         that of others.~That, my dear Critias, I replied, is a
  2 Text |          thing. And the cure, my dear youth, has to be effected
  3 Text |          I am to do with you, my dear Charmides.~Critias, when
  4 Text |        declares you to be, then, dear Charmides, blessed art thou,
  5 Text |        act well and be happy, my dear Critias,— this is a point
  6 Text |       war?~Quite so.~And yet, my dear Critias, none of these things


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|       difficult question.’ O, my dear Hermogenes, I believe that
  8 Text | difficult question.~SOCRATES: My dear Hermogenes, the first imposers
  9 Text |         But, as I was saying, my dear Hermogenes, let us get away
 10 Text |     etymology.~SOCRATES: Yes, my dear friend; but then you know
 11 Text |          composition of them, my dear Hermogenes, will be a sorry
 12 Text |          mean.~CRATYLUS: Yes, my dear friend, and the explanation


Crito
    Part
 13 Text |   refused.~SOCRATES: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about
 14 Text |       and do as I say.~SOCRATES: Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable,
 15 Text |     convinced; or else cease, my dear friend, from repeating to
 16 Text |         and not to Crito.’~This, dear Crito, is the voice which


Euthydemus
    Part
 17 Text |         this he agreed.~Then, my dear boy, I said, the knowledge
 18 Text |      seeking?~SOCRATES: Find! my dear sir, no indeed. And we cut
 19 Text |         are invincible.~Then, my dear Crito, there was universal
 20 Text |      study philosophy.~SOCRATES: Dear Crito, do you not know that


Euthyphro
    Part
 21 Intro|           that ‘Piety is what is dear to the gods, and impiety
 22 Intro|       and impiety is what is not dear to them.’ But may there
 23 Intro|        And therefore what may be dear to one god may not be dear
 24 Intro|       dear to one god may not be dear to another, and the same
 25 Intro|        father, Euthyphro, may be dear or pleasing to Zeus (who
 26 Intro|          therefore that which is dear to the gods is dear to the
 27 Intro|     which is dear to the gods is dear to the gods because it is
 28 Intro|      loved of them because it is dear to them. But the pious or
 29 Intro|      loved by them because it is dear to them. Here then appears
 30 Intro|          but what is pleasing or dear to them; and this is the
 31 Text |          me.~SOCRATES: And I, my dear friend, knowing this, am
 32 Text |           then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety
 33 Text |     impiety is that which is not dear to them.~SOCRATES: Very
 34 Text |         thing or person which is dear to the gods is pious, and
 35 Text |         and are both hateful and dear to them?~EUTHYPHRO: True.~
 36 Text |          SOCRATES: Well then, my dear friend Euthyphro, do tell
 37 Text |          to be also pleasing and dear to them.’ And therefore,
 38 Text |      SOCRATES: And that which is dear to the gods is loved by
 39 Text |     SOCRATES: Then that which is dear to the gods, Euthyphro,
 40 Text |      SOCRATES: But that which is dear to the gods is dear to them
 41 Text |     which is dear to the gods is dear to them because it is loved
 42 Text |      loved by them because it is dear to them.~EUTHYPHRO: True.~
 43 Text |          same with that which is dear to God, and is loved because
 44 Text |         holy, then that which is dear to God would have been loved
 45 Text |         have been loved as being dear to God; but if that which
 46 Text |        God; but if that which is dear to God is dear to him because
 47 Text |          which is dear to God is dear to him because loved by
 48 Text |         piety really is, whether dear to the gods or not (for
 49 Text |      gods, but not beneficial or dear to them?~EUTHYPHRO: I should
 50 Text |        is repeated that piety is dear to the gods?~EUTHYPHRO:
 51 Text |         this the same as what is dear to them—do you see?~EUTHYPHRO:
 52 Text |      impiety. Speak out then, my dear Euthyphro, and do not hide


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 53 Text |        very true. For indeed, my dear fellow, the design which
 54 Text |       SOCRATES: Then imagine, my dear fellow, that I am the demus
 55 Text |     better of them.~SOCRATES: My dear friend, what a sentiment!
 56 Text |          else.~SOCRATES: But, my dear friend, do consider what
 57 Text |    SOCRATES: And if the soul, my dear Alcibiades, is ever to know
 58 Text |       SOCRATES: For if a man, my dear Alcibiades, has the power


Gorgias
    Part
 59 Text |         must not be offended, my dear Socrates, for I am speaking
 60 Text |      both doing wrong. Still, my dear friend, I would ask you
 61 Text |     answer can I give, Callicles dear; have you any?~CALLICLES:
 62 Text |    performances.~SOCRATES: O, my dear friend, I say nothing against


Ion
    Part
 63 Text |     SOCRATES: And yet surely, my dear friend Ion, in a discussion
 64 Text |         true.~SOCRATES: Then, my dear friend, can I be mistaken


Laches
    Part
 65 Text |        nature.~SOCRATES: But, my dear friend, should not the good
 66 Text |        what I am going to do, my dear friend. Do not, however,
 67 Text |           SOCRATES: But then, my dear friend, if a man knew all


Laws
    Book
 68 1    |          Athenian. No wonder, my dear friends; and if, as is very
 69 2    |      Possibly.~Athenian. But, my dear friend, let us distinguish
 70 2    |        now we are of two. To me, dear Cleinias, the truth of what
 71 3    |       Megillus. We do.~Athenian. Dear is the son to the father—
 72 3    |        is awarded by lot, and is dear to the Gods and a token
 73 3    |        excess. I mean to say, my dear friends, that there is no
 74 3    |     everything that was near and dear to them, as they did; but
 75 4    |         him. And he who would be dear to God must, as far as is
 76 5    |        about Gods, and about our dear forefathers:—Of all the
 77 5    |        law, choosing, I say, the dear and the pleasant and the
 78 7    |         you mean?~Athenian. O my dear Cleinias, I, like yourself,
 79 8    |           How is that?~Athenian. Dear is the like in virtue to
 80 8    |          the equal to the equal; dear also, though unlike, is
 81 10   |           In the first place, my dear friend, these people would
 82 10   |        evil men; and I will tell dear Cleinias, why I am so. I
 83 11   |         mean?~Athenian Stranger. Dear Cleinias, the class of men
 84 12   |         estimation of posterity. Dear companions, if this our
 85 12   |      which is in them.~Megillus. Dear Cleinias, after all that


Lysis
    Part
 86 Text |       and not the other.~Yes, my dear youth, I said, the reason
 87 Text |         he replied.~Then now, my dear Lysis, I said, you perceive
 88 Text |         to whom his children are dear, and steeds having single
 89 Text |         loving or hating, may be dear to the lover of it: for
 90 Text |        beloved, is the friend or dear one?~Yes.~And the hated
 91 Text |      friends. Yet how absurd, my dear friend, or indeed impossible
 92 Text |        which makes him a friend, dear to him, or neither dear
 93 Text |          dear to him, or neither dear nor hateful to him?~I do
 94 Text |          saying, is a friend, or dear to us for the sake of health?~
 95 Text |          Yes.~And health is also dear?~Certainly.~And if dear,
 96 Text |          dear?~Certainly.~And if dear, then dear for the sake
 97 Text |     Certainly.~And if dear, then dear for the sake of something?~
 98 Text |         this object must also be dear, as is implied in our previous
 99 Text |          Yes.~And that something dear involves something else
100 Text |          involves something else dear?~Yes.~But then, proceeding
101 Text |   maintain, all other things are dear, and, having there arrived,
102 Text |    things, which, as we say, are dear for the sake of another,
103 Text |       friend? That which is only dear to us for the sake of something
104 Text |         is improperly said to be dear, but the truly dear is that
105 Text |        to be dear, but the truly dear is that in which all these
106 Text |        which all these so-called dear friendships terminate.~That,
107 Text |        to be true.~And the truly dear or ultimate principle of
108 Text |          of any other or further dear.~True.~Then we have done
109 Text |       mean, which are relatively dear and for the sake of something
110 Text |        them. For they are called dear because of another dear
111 Text |          dear because of another dear or friend. But with the
112 Text |          with the true friend or dear, the case is quite the reverse;
113 Text |         for that is proved to be dear because of the hated, and
114 Text |       away it would be no longer dear.~Very true, he replied:
115 Text |        for that which desires is dear to that which is desired
116 Text |        of which he is in want is dear to him?~True.~And he is
117 Text |          that what is useless is dear, would be absurd? Suppose,


Menexenus
    Part
118 Text |          and above all, as being dear to the Gods. This is proved


Meno
    Part
119 Text |         different is our lot! my dear Meno. Here at Athens there
120 Text |      SOCRATES: Not only that, my dear boy, but you may say further
121 Text |         good? Do not all men, my dear sir, desire good?~MENO:
122 Text |       pieces. And, therefore, my dear Meno, I fear that I must
123 Text |   acquainted.~SOCRATES: Then, my dear friend, how can you know


Phaedo
    Part
124 Intro|          alive; Antigone will be dear to her brethren after death;
125 Text |           And in like manner, my dear Cebes, if all things which
126 Text |         changeable. Can this, my dear Cebes, be denied?~It cannot.~
127 Text |       say? That can never be, my dear Simmias and Cebes. The truth
128 Text |          of good cheer, then, my dear Crito, and say that you


Phaedrus
    Part
129 Intro|      generalization which are so dear to the dialectician, that
130 Text |        the Ilissus.~SOCRATES: My dear Phaedrus, whence come you,
131 Text |          sloping to the head. My dear Phaedrus, you have been
132 Text |        life.~SOCRATES: You are a dear golden ass if you suppose
133 Text |       erromenos eros).’~And now, dear Phaedrus, I shall pause
134 Text |         pain. And this state, my dear imaginary youth to whom
135 Text |         whole soul. They too are dear, but not so dear to one
136 Text |         too are dear, but not so dear to one another as the others,
137 Text |       the world below.~And thus, dear Eros, I have made and paid


Philebus
    Part
138 Text |       learned all this, then, my dear friend, you are perfect;
139 Text |          true.~SOCRATES: Yes, my dear Protarchus, and your answer
140 Text |          is too much for you, my dear friend; but there was not
141 Text |       whence comes that soul, my dear Protarchus, unless the body
142 Text |          will explain to you, my dear Protarchus, what they mean,
143 Text |       PROTARCHUS: How?~SOCRATES: Dear Protarchus, I never asked


Protagoras
    Part
144 Text |        aid him, saying:~‘Brother dear, let us both together stay


The Republic
    Book
145 1    |       But when a man is well, my dear Polemarchus, there is no
146 1    |         not make the attempt, my dear man; but to avoid any misunderstanding
147 1    |       separate function? And, my dear illustrious friend, do say
148 1    |       And this is the reason, my dear Thrasymachus, why, as I
149 2    |         of the two. ~Heavens! my dear Glaucon, I said, how energetically
150 2    |        likely to be affected, my dear Socrates-those of them,
151 2    |         to us. ~Then, I said, my dear friend, the task must not
152 2    |      judgment. ~Then, I said, my dear friend, let none of the
153 3    |        my eyes verily I behold a dear friend of mine chased round
154 3    |       cannot be so confident, my dear Glaucon, I said; I am much
155 5    |          lest our aspiration, my dear friend, should turn out
156 5    |   Undoubtedly. ~Good heavens! my dear friend, I said, what consummate
157 5    |   opinion about what is near and dear to them, and therefore they
158 5    |         Such was the thought, my dear Glaucon, which I would fain
159 7    |        said, you may now append, dear Glaucon, to the previous
160 7    |        of knowledge is there, my dear Glaucon, which is of the
161 7    |         lead to our final rest. ~Dear Glaucon, I said, you will
162 7    |       lest they should taste the dear delight too early; for youngsters,
163 8    |        be sure. ~Yes, indeed, my dear friend, but you will find
164 8    |         the minds of men who are dear to the gods, and are their
165 9    |          them, and will keep his dear old fatherland or motherland,
166 10   |      anything else which is most dear to him, will bear the loss
167 10   |          defence fails, then, my dear friend, like other persons
168 10   |       with you. ~Yes, I said, my dear Glaucon, for great is the
169 10   |        states also. And here, my dear Glaucon, is the supreme
170 10   |         evil. Thus shall we live dear to one another and to the


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
171 Text |         to inflict? Consider, my dear friend: may it not be quite


The Seventh Letter
    Part
172 Text |        in souls-from which it is dear that it is something different


The Sophist
    Part
173 Text |        out.~STRANGER: But oh! my dear youth, do you suppose this
174 Text |          referring?~STRANGER: My dear friend, we are engaged in


The Statesman
    Part
175 Text |     statesman, philosopher! O my dear Theodorus, do my ears truly
176 Text |   STRANGER: The higher ideas, my dear friend, can hardly be set


The Symposium
    Part
177 Text |       saying: not answer him, my dear Agathon; for if he can only
178 Text |          be in a strait.~Why, my dear friend, said Socrates, must
179 Text |          that you were right, my dear Agathon, in proposing to
180 Text |       poor and foolish. Such, my dear Socrates, is the nature
181 Text |   essence of beauty is. This, my dear Socrates,’ said the stranger


Theaetetus
    Part
182 Text |         Then now is the time, my dear Theaetetus, for me to examine,
183 Text |          the pangs of labour, my dear Theaetetus; you have something
184 Text |        in their own. It is quite dear that they never learned
185 Text |        them.~SOCRATES: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus
186 Text |       changed.~SOCRATES: Why, my dear boy, you are young, and
187 Text |     truer than others. And, O my dear Socrates, I do not call
188 Text |        we are the more bound, my dear Theodorus, to examine the
189 Text |        in labour and travail, my dear friend, or have you brought


Timaeus
    Part
190 Text |        two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of
191 Text |          there anything more, my dear Timaeus, which has been
192 Text |          He was a relative and a dear friend of my great-grandfather,
193 Text |       law testifies, a substance dear to the gods. The compounds