The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |         indictment in a spirit of mere wantonness and youthful
  2 Text |       approaching end happened by mere chance. But I see clearly


Charmides
    Part
  3 PreS |           of a finer quality; the mere prose English is slow in
  4 PreS | civilization; but in some cases a mere word has survived, while
  5 Text |          distinguished not by the mere fact that they are sciences,


Cratylus
    Part
  6 Intro|       expression of a thing, or a mere inarticulate sound (a fallacy
  7 Intro|          foolish; and this is not mere appearance but reality.
  8 Intro|           is the true answer. But mere antiquity may often prevent
  9 Intro|        Hermogenes and himself are mere sciolists, but Cratylus
 10 Intro|     should say that they would be mere unmeaning sounds, like the
 11 Intro|        words have the same laws.’ Mere consistency is no test of
 12 Intro|  expressively distinguish between mere imitation and the symbolical
 13 Intro|  confusion of ideas with facts—of mere possibilities, and generalities,
 14 Intro|          think without words is a mere illusion,—they are always
 15 Intro|       accompany them; between the mere mechanical cohesion of sounds
 16 Intro|      though very far from being a mere chaos, is indefinite, admits
 17 Intro|         the word and the use of a mere synonym for it,—e.g. felicity
 18 Text |    greater part of nature to be a mere receptacle; and they say
 19 Text |          SOCRATES: Of such as are mere negatives I hardly think


Critias
    Part
 20 Intro|         by Xenophon, and that the mere acquaintance with him was
 21 Text |       having fallen away, and the mere skeleton of the land being


Crito
    Part
 22 Text |           for the sake of talking—mere childish nonsense? That


Euthydemus
    Part
 23 Intro|          analysis of grammar, and mere puns or plays of words received


Euthyphro
    Part
 24 Text |           or simply to accept the mere statement on our own authority


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 25 Pre  |          same name. Moreover, the mere existence of a Greater and


Gorgias
    Part
 26 Intro|           or simulations of them, mere experiences, as they may
 27 Intro|        happiness; all the rest is mere talk.’~Socrates compliments
 28 Intro|        such condemnations are not mere paradoxes of philosophers,
 29 Intro|           of mankind. He is not a mere theorist, nor yet a dealer
 30 Intro|            Although he is not the mere executor of the will of
 31 Intro|        that the future is to be a mere blank to him. The greatest
 32 Intro|           familiar names, just as mere fragments of the words of
 33 Text |         can you believe that this mere doing as you think best
 34 Text |       happiness—all the rest is a mere bauble, agreements contrary
 35 Text |        that to hunger, I mean the mere state of hunger, was pleasant
 36 Text |          two sorts; one, which is mere flattery and disgraceful
 37 Text |      going to tell you now is not mere hearsay, but well known


Laches
    Part
 38 Intro|      courage is a good thing, and mere endurance may be hurtful


Laws
    Book
 39 1    |     wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence
 40 1    |         nature to be preferred to mere bodily exercise, inasmuch
 41 2    |           and the lyre not as the mere accompaniments of the dance
 42 3    |       good; a quality, which is a mere appendage of things which
 43 4    |        laws, considering that the mere preservation and continuance
 44 4    |      slave doctor prescribes what mere experience suggests, as
 45 6    |          present, trusting to the mere assertion of this principle,
 46 6    |      about the state has not been mere idle talk, I should like
 47 7    |          learn quickly, and their mere necessary acquirements are
 48 7    |           invented for the use of mere children, which they learn
 49 7    |        upon him which goes beyond mere legislation. There is something
 50 9    |            O my friends, that the mere giving or taking away of
 51 9    |          this, and is made by the mere prelude to dread such a
 52 10   |     afterwards; and this is not a mere conjecture of ours about
 53 12   |      loses, with the exception of mere necessaries, and the assignment
 54 12   |           actions will proceed by mere chance.~Cleinias. Very true.~


Lysis
    Part
 55 Intro|     prepared for the part which a mere youth takes in a difficult


Menexenus
    Part
 56 Pre  |          same name. Moreover, the mere existence of a Greater and


Meno
    Part
 57 Intro|          candid friend, and not a mere disputant, Socrates is willing
 58 Text | acquisition, and without them the mere acquisition of good will


Parmenides
    Part
 59 Intro|         mysteries; by others as a mere illustration, taken at random,
 60 Intro|      dialogue, combining with the mere recital of the words spoken,
 61 Intro|           have forgotten—he was a mere child when I was last here;—
 62 Intro|     dialectic of Zeno than in the mere interrogation of Socrates.
 63 Intro|          existence;’ they are not mere forms or opinions, which
 64 Intro|   treatment of them in Plato as a mere straw-splitting, or legerdemain
 65 Intro|          answered that they are a mere logical puzzle, while others
 66 Intro|           places at once. It is a mere fiction; and we may observe
 67 Intro|       some other logical forms, a mere figure of speech transferred
 68 Intro|        For the Platonic Ideas are mere numerical differences, and
 69 Intro|           sometimes regarded as a mere abstraction, and then elevated
 70 Intro|          that the term ‘law’ is a mere abstraction, under which
 71 Text |          have forgotten; he was a mere child when I last came hither


Phaedo
    Part
 72 Intro|       than the sea, for that is a mere chaos or waste of water
 73 Intro|     opposition of soul and body a mere illusion, and the true self
 74 Intro|       union of the two? Is it the mere force of life which is determined
 75 Intro|         of the divine nature. The mere fact of the existence of
 76 Intro|          or existence of evil are mere dialectical puzzles, standing
 77 Intro|           a true mystic and not a mere retainer or wand-bearer:
 78 Text |    trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and
 79 Text |         are brought together, the mere juxtaposition or meeting
 80 Text |         the wave casts them forth—mere homicides by way of Cocytus,


Phaedrus
    Part
 81 Intro|      philosophers. All others are mere flatterers and putters together
 82 Text |    natural, whether friendship or mere pleasure be the motive.
 83 Text |       there is no disgrace in the mere fact of writing.~PHAEDRUS:
 84 Text |         time I boldly assert that mere knowledge of the truth will
 85 Text |            and that rhetoric is a mere routine and trick, not an


Philebus
    Part
 86 Intro|        which for the most part is mere guess-work. But there is
 87 Intro|        copula, or that unity is a mere unit, is to us easy; but
 88 Intro|        and that the infinite is a mere negative, which is on the
 89 Intro|       part, of which the first is mere guess-work, the second is
 90 Intro|       them, happiness will be the mere aggregate of the goods of
 91 Intro|          of them, if they are not mere sophisms and illusions,
 92 Text |        the difference between the mere art of disputation and true
 93 Text |      assured, and not rest upon a mere assertion.~PROTARCHUS: Very


Protagoras
    Part
 94 Intro|         to prevention, of course —mere retribution is for beasts,
 95 Intro|     Phaedo to deny that good is a mere exchange of a greater pleasure
 96 Text |          no longer satisfied with mere secret intercourse, they


The Republic
    Book
 97 1    |           captain of sailors or a mere sailor? ~A captain of sailors. ~
 98 1    |           a subject, and is not a mere money-maker; that has been
 99 1    |       ruler of sailors, and not a mere sailor? ~That has been admitted. ~
100 1    |        their own good, but like a mere diner or banqueter with
101 3    |           am quite aware that the mere athlete becomes too much
102 3    |         of a savage, and that the mere musician IS melted and softened
103 4    |          that you mean to exclude mere uninstructed courage, such
104 5    |           not an impossibility or mere aspiration; and the contrary
105 6    |        not know, I said, that all mere opinions are bad, and the
106 7    |           to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the
107 7    |           the government is not a mere dream, and although difficult,
108 9    |         of suffering in which the mere rest and cessation of pain,
109 9    |           otherwise? For they are mere shadows and pictures of
110 10   |         knowledge, and not been a mere imitator-can you imagine,


The Seventh Letter
    Part
111 Text |          I can inform you from no mere conjecture but from positive
112 Text |        myself wholly and solely a mere man of words, one who would
113 Text |         philosophic temper, but a mere surface colouring of opinions


The Sophist
    Part
114 Intro|           made by an enemy out of mere spite, or the sense in which
115 Intro|    himself seems to be aware that mere division is an unsafe and
116 Intro|         Plato from supposing that mere division and subdivision
117 Intro|        still ends to him, and not mere instruments of thought.
118 Intro|  unmeaning, unless the ‘not’ is a mere modification of the positive,
119 Intro|           among the Hellenes from mere instruction in the arts)
120 Intro|           that perfect being is a mere everlasting form, devoid
121 Intro|         things, and this not by a mere crude substitution of one
122 Intro|        worthy of the name are not mere opinions or speculations,
123 Intro|        most of us are regarded as mere categories, he saw or thought
124 Intro|          between them vary from a mere association up to a necessary
125 Intro|         is he to be regarded as a mere waif or stray in human history,
126 Intro|           any more than he is the mere creature or expression of
127 Intro|        the dead’ and dignifying a mere logical skeleton with the
128 Intro|            do we suppose that the mere accident of our being the
129 Intro|         and the unmeaningness of ‘mere’ abstractions, and above
130 Text |           unity, will represent a mere name.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
131 Text |       intended to say was, that a mere succession of nouns or of


The Statesman
    Part
132 Intro|           distinguish between the mere animal life of innocence,
133 Intro|   disregard of words. The evil of mere verbal oppositions, the
134 Intro|        has the power or not, is a mere accident; or rather he has
135 Intro|  effectual. These means are not a mere external organisation of
136 Text |      possess science, and are not mere pretenders, whether they
137 Text |       well governed, but they are mere imitations like the others.~
138 Text | imitations.~STRANGER: And yet the mere suggestion which I hastily


The Symposium
    Part
139 Intro|      nature, extending beyond the mere immediate relation of the
140 Intro|          a tie’ (Symp.), is not a mere fiction of Plato’s, but
141 Text |          other’s side, although a mere handful, they would overcome
142 Text |          or not much, whereas the mere fragments of you and your


Theaetetus
    Part
143 Intro|       deserves to live, and not a mere burden of the earth.’ But
144 Intro|        reflection and experience. Mere perception does not reach
145 Intro|           soon degenerated into a mere strife of words. And when
146 Intro|          And when thus reduced to mere words, they seem to have
147 Intro|          them. The senses are not mere holes in a ‘Trojan horse,’
148 Intro|         what he thinks; therefore mere speech cannot be knowledge.
149 Intro|           from language, although mere expression in words is not
150 Intro|    disengage ourselves from them. Mere figures of speech have unconsciously
151 Intro|     proposition—that is to say, a mere word or symbol claiming
152 Intro|           still their origin is a mere accident which has nothing
153 Intro|         sense, but by the mind. A mere sensation does not attain
154 Intro|        that he was dealing with a mere abstraction. But now that
155 Intro|         science. They and not the mere impressions of sense are
156 Intro|        combine them are apt to be mere words. We are in a country
157 Text |           it is a true birth or a mere wind-egg:—You say that knowledge
158 Text |           not become different by mere contact with another unless
159 Text |            we were satisfied with mere verbal consistency, and
160 Text |     Although professing not to be mere Eristics, but philosophers,
161 Text |           not distinguish between mere disputation and dialectic:
162 Text |           of them, ‘These are not mere good-for-nothing persons,
163 Text |         good-for-nothing persons, mere burdens of the earth, but
164 Text |           an old man, and I was a mere youth, and he appeared to
165 Text |         that only, and not in the mere impression, truth and being
166 Text |          that S is a consonant, a mere noise, as of the tongue


Timaeus
    Part
167 Intro|          own annals, Solon, are a mere children’s story. For in
168 Intro|        struggling—the tendency to mere abstractions; not perceiving
169 Intro|            like being or essence, mere vacant abstractions, but
170 Intro|           the human body is not a mere vagary, but is a natural
171 Intro|     nature. God and the world are mere names, like the Being of
172 Intro|       worlds, one of which is the mere double of the other, or
173 Intro|    whether in Plato or in Kant, a mere negative residuum of human
174 Intro|          retain an enthusiasm for mere negations. In different
175 Intro|           are consistent with the mere passive causation of them,
176 Text |      imagine that the union was a mere accident, and was to be
177 Text |   authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend, but an actual fact?~