Charmides
    Part
  1 Text |        that I am, I shall have to praise myself, which would be ill
  2 Text |   discovers, is thought worthy of praise, but he who does so most


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|        there not as many terms of praise which signify rest as which
  4 Text |   intelligence and mind worthy of praise, and are not other works
  5 Text |        the good, and is a term of praise; and the author of names


Crito
    Part
  6 Text |         supposed to attend to the praise and blame and opinion of
  7 Text |           censure and welcome the praise of that one only, and not


Gorgias
    Part
  8 Intro|          time to Hellenize and to praise knowing; for we have Hebraized
  9 Intro|         the age of Plato admitted praise to be one of the chief incentives
 10 Text |          thinks that he will thus praise himself. The true principle
 11 Text |     satisfy their pleasures, they praise temperance and justice out
 12 Text |         observe how ready I am to praise you when you talk sense.~
 13 Text |       what you are now doing. You praise the men who feasted the


Ion
    Part
 14 Text |      dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains,
 15 Text |            The answer is that you praise Homer not by art but by
 16 Text |      enough to persuade me that I praise Homer only when I am mad
 17 Text |         knowledge you are able to praise Homer, you do not deal fairly


Laches
    Part
 18 Text |           in terms of the highest praise; but I have never thought
 19 Text |     LYSIMACHUS: That is very high praise which is accorded to you,
 20 Text |     actions like those which they praise. Let me tell you the pleasure
 21 Text |    pursuing; and as Homer says in praise of the horses of Aeneas,


Laws
    Book
 22 1    |         say to him, the excellent praise which you have bestowed
 23 1    |     Athenian. Well, now, when you praise and blame war in this high–
 24 1    |            Tyrtaeus, as it seems, praise those who distinguish themselves
 25 1    |          over them, and blame and praise them rightly by the mouth
 26 1    |           at a moment’s notice to praise or censure any practice
 27 1    |         thus:—Suppose a person to praise the keeping of goats, and
 28 1    |           observers of this class praise or blame such meetings,
 29 1    |         when we speak in terms of praise or blame about the bringing–
 30 2    |           natures wrong, and they praise one thing, but are pleased
 31 2    |           though he be ashamed to praise them. And what greater good
 32 3    |         of view does this sort of praise appear just: First, in reference
 33 3    |     honour, or the like, he would praise them under the idea that
 34 3    |       they compelled every one to praise all that they said or did.
 35 4    |           worthy of extraordinary praise. For we should not teach
 36 4    |        burial in a poem, I should praise the extravagant sort; and
 37 4    |           himself moderate, would praise a moderate funeral. Now
 38 5    |        not matters of law, but of praise and blame only; in which
 39 5    |          and blame only; in which praise and blame educate a man,
 40 5    |          palm of virtue. The same praise may be given about temperance
 41 5    |   interest. And therefore we must praise the noblest life, not only
 42 5    |       common, and all men express praise and blame and feel joy and
 43 6    |         ought or ought not to be, praise and blame the laws—blame
 44 6    |          decreases: all men shall praise him who is obedient to the
 45 7    |           frequent changes in the praise and censure of manners are
 46 7    |          ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given
 47 7    |          will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women
 48 7    |       like men. Let him who will, praise your legislators, but I
 49 7    |           nature and deserving of praise, so there is an excellent
 50 7    |         been thus delineated, the praise of the virtuous citizen
 51 7    |            but the higher form of praise is that which describes
 52 7    |          laws and when he assigns praise and blame. This is the truest
 53 7    |        word that can be spoken in praise of a citizen; and the true
 54 7    |         he to do? He will have to praise and blame hunting with a
 55 7    |     follow next in order moderate praise and censure of hunting;
 56 7    |           censure of hunting; the praise being assigned to that kind
 57 7    |         with their own hands. The praise and blame which is assigned
 58 8    |          works of good men, which praise of blame has been awarded
 59 9    |           of education, the false praise of wealth which is bruited
 60 9    |         to the rescue, shall have praise, and if he do not come,
 61 10   |           their parents, I cannot praise them, or think that they
 62 11   |           having an ingredient of praise, not compelling but advising
 63 12   |       will be worthy of receiving praise from the whole city.~When


Lysis
    Part
 64 Text |        truly regarded as hymns of praise composed in honour of you
 65 Text |           the wise lover does not praise his beloved until he has
 66 Text |            and not less worthy of praise for his goodness than for


Menexenus
    Part
 67 Intro|       number of such orations. To praise the Athenians among the
 68 Intro|        the Athenians was easy,—to praise them among the Lacedaemonians
 69 Intro|  well-known words, ‘It is easy to praise the Athenians among the
 70 Text |       good for much. The speakers praise him for what he has done
 71 Text |       every conceivable form they praise the city; and they praise
 72 Text |         praise the city; and they praise those who died in war, and
 73 Text |          went before us; and they praise ourselves also who are still
 74 Text |          stuff. Had the orator to praise Athenians among Peloponnesians,
 75 Text |       make a figure if he were to praise the Athenians among the
 76 Text |         is needed which will duly praise the dead and gently admonish
 77 Text |        And I think that we should praise them in the order in which
 78 Text |     Wherefore let us first of all praise the goodness of their birth;
 79 Text |        the country which the Gods praise to be praised by all mankind?
 80 Text |           all mankind? The second praise which may be fairly claimed
 81 Text |           I will speak first, and praise their valour, as is meet
 82 Text |           to the death. Worthy of praise are they also who waged


Meno
    Part
 83 Text |           the Spartans, when they praise a good man, say ‘that he


Phaedo
    Part
 84 Intro|          of the sphere of earthly praise or blame, is hardly worthy
 85 Intro|    worship of God consist only of praise, or of many forms of service?


Phaedrus
    Part
 86 Intro|        what will he not do in his praise of the non-lover? He has
 87 Intro|           of the Church, which we praise in like manner, ‘meaning
 88 Text |          will spoil you. For they praise your words and actions in
 89 Text |           the successful lover to praise what ought not to give him
 90 Text |         are you and I expected to praise the sentiments of the author,
 91 Text | transition was made from blame to praise.~PHAEDRUS: What do you mean?~
 92 Text |          Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various


Protagoras
    Part
 93 Text |         but a child;) and all men praise him, Socrates; he is reputed
 94 Text |        food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their
 95 Text |           who is in want of them, praise them all alike; though I
 96 Text |     likely to win esteem, and not praise only, among us who are your
 97 Text |           the hearers’ souls, but praise is often an insincere expression
 98 Text |      awful’ (deinon) as a term of praise. If I say that Protagoras
 99 Text |       great deal might be said in praise of the details of the poem,
100 Text |       does no evil, voluntarily I praise and love;—not even the gods
101 Text |        compel himself to love and praise another, and to be the friend
102 Text |         and constrains himself to praise them; and if they have wronged
103 Text |       compels himself to love and praise his own flesh and blood.
104 Text |          himself had often had to praise and magnify a tyrant or
105 Text |        you word); in this sense I praise no man. But he who is moderately
106 Text |         some whom I involuntarily praise and love. And you, Pittacus,


The Republic
    Book
107 1    |            and therefore I pay in praise, which is all I have; and
108 1    |       have; and how ready I am to praise anyone who appears to me
109 1    |            And now why do you not praise me? But of course you won'
110 2    |        this; and therefore I will praise the unjust life to the utmost
111 2    |        idiot, although they would praise him to one another's faces,
112 2    |      Glaucon's argument about the praise and censure of justice and
113 2    |           the style in which they praise justice. But about the wicked
114 2    |         shall say that you do not praise justice, but the appearance
115 2    |      good-I would ask you in your praise of justice to regard one
116 2    |    possessors of them. Let others praise justice and censure injustice,
117 2    |        Agamemnon; neither will we praise the verses of AEschylus
118 3    |         some cases he appeared to praise or censure the movement
119 4    |     Assuredly not. ~Nor would you praise the behavior of States which
120 4    |    himself; and this is a term of praise: but when, owing to evil
121 5    |          has a snub nose, and you praise his charming face; the hook-nose
122 6    |          a great uproar, and they praise some things which are being
123 6    |        redoubles the sound of the praise or blame-at such a time
124 6    |          to produce whatever they praise. And yet the reasons are
125 7    |      praised astronomy before, my praise shall be given in your own
126 9    |           the criterion, then the praise or blame of the lover of


The Seventh Letter
    Part
127 Text |           to me, and wished me to praise him more than I praised


The Statesman
    Part
128 Text |   rational ground on which we may praise or blame too much length
129 Text |        what has been said, should praise or blame the length or shortness
130 Text |           things; about any other praise and blame, he need not trouble
131 Text |          which they fall. When we praise quickness and energy and
132 Text |          or sound, we express our praise of the quality which we
133 Text |       these natures, we certainly praise them.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~
134 Text |     STRANGER: And do we not often praise the quiet strain of action
135 Text |           actions they distribute praise and blame,—praise to the
136 Text |      distribute praise and blame,—praise to the actions which are


The Symposium
    Part
137 Intro|        heard of the discourses in praise of love spoken by Socrates
138 Intro|        The successive speeches in praise of love are characteristic
139 Intro|     understanding that you should praise them, not that you should
140 Intro|          them—this is the sort of praise which Socrates is unable
141 Intro|        are to be found beyond all praise). (2) It may be observed
142 Text |         you about the speeches in praise of love, which were delivered
143 Text |            Let Phaedrus begin the praise of Love, and good luck to
144 Text |      should not be called upon to praise Love in such an indiscriminate
145 Text |        which Love is deserving of praise, and then try to hymn the
146 Text |        All the gods ought to have praise given to them, but not without
147 Text |            is noble and worthy of praise. The Love who is the offspring
148 Text |           this my contribution in praise of love, which is as good
149 Text |     things which might be said in praise of Love, but this was not
150 Text |       discourse; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike
151 Text |            Wherefore, if we would praise him who has given to us
152 Text |           us the benefit, we must praise the god Love, who is our
153 Text |          them. But I would rather praise the god first, and then
154 Text |       imagined that the topics of praise should be true, and that
155 Text |           knew the nature of true praise, and should speak well.
156 Text |         each of you should really praise Love, but only that you
157 Text |         that you should appear to praise him. And so you attribute
158 Text |          every imaginable form of praise which can be gathered anywhere;
159 Text |          noble and solemn hymn of praise have you rehearsed. But
160 Text |   misunderstood the nature of the praise when I said that I would
161 Text |       such a strain: for I do not praise in that way; no, indeed,
162 Text |        others to do the same, and praise the power and spirit of
163 Text |           should make a speech in praise of love, and as good a one
164 Text |           the fact, and that if I praise any one but himself in his
165 Text |           no one else whom I will praise when you are of the company.~
166 Text |          Eryximachus, if you like praise Socrates.~What do you think,
167 Text |          that the meaning of your praise?~I am going to speak the
168 Text |         And now, my boys, I shall praise Socrates in a figure which
169 Text |           Socrates when I come to praise him. Moreover I have felt
170 Text |          which I might narrate in praise of Socrates; most of his
171 Text |         man.~This, friends, is my praise of Socrates. I have added
172 Text |            and I in turn ought to praise my neighbour on the right,
173 Text |          I have a great desire to praise the youth.~Hurrah! cried


Theaetetus
    Part
174 Intro|     intellects. And if he were to praise the mental endowments of
175 Text |        should have been afraid to praise him, lest you should suppose
176 Text |         persons, either by way of praise or blame, there is no particular
177 Text |     hearing, never did I hear him praise any one as he has been praising
178 Text |           but if some one were to praise you for running, and to
179 Text |          a great runner—would the praise be any the less true?~THEAETETUS:


Timaeus
    Part
180 Text |   gratitude to you, and a hymn of praise true and worthy of the goddess,