The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |             have such an evil fame. Please to attend then. And although
  2 Text |           man who ever did. But now please to answer the next question:


Charmides
    Part
  3 Text |            I give you the medicine. Please, therefore, to inform me
  4 Text |         medicine: therefore, if you please, I will share the enquiry
  5 Text |             signification which you please, if you will only tell me
  6 Text |           me what you mean by them. Please then to begin again, and
  7 Text |            I agree with you or not. Please then to allow me time to
  8 Text |        would follow. Let us, if you please, assume the possibility
  9 Text |           and true. Aye, and if you please, you may suppose that prophecy,


Cratylus
    Part
 10 Intro|        names of slaves, whenever we please, and the altered name is
 11 Text |          argument?~CRATYLUS: If you please.~HERMOGENES: I should explain
 12 Text |        example, we do not cut as we please, and with any chance instrument;
 13 Text |         words, and give names as we please and change the accents.
 14 Text |             they called psyche. But please stay a moment; I fancy that
 15 Text |       observe. Let us, then, if you please, in the first place announce
 16 Text |            and manliness, or if you please, from his hard and unchangeable
 17 Text |             difficulty in the word. Please, however, to note the contrivance
 18 Text |           out any letters which you please, names will be too easily
 19 Text |             rightly understand you. Please to say, then, whether both
 20 Text |      suppose that to any extent you please you can learn things through


Critias
    Part
 21 Text |             as female, may, if they please, practise in common the
 22 Text |       stones, varying the colour to please the eye, and to be a natural


Crito
    Part
 23 Text |           not dispute with you; but please to tell me, Socrates, whether
 24 Text |            better judgment. And now please to consider my first position,


Euthydemus
    Part
 25 Text |      possession of his kingdom. And please to tell me whether you intend
 26 Text |          may skin me alive, if they please (and I am pretty well skinned
 27 Text |            me in another, will that please you—if I answer what is
 28 Text |             to the point?~That will please me very well; but will not
 29 Text |             very well; but will not please you equally well, as I imagine.~
 30 Text |       Euthydemus?~Thereupon I said, Please not to interrupt, my good
 31 Text |       wisdom is strangely mistaken; please, however, to tell me how
 32 Text |              That, he said, is as I please.~And do you please?~Yes,
 33 Text |             as I please.~And do you please?~Yes, he said.~And you will
 34 Text |           rough; good words, if you please; in the way of religion


Euthyphro
    Part
 35 Intro|             piety is knowing how to please the gods in word and deed,
 36 Text |      prosecute them is impiety. And please to consider, Socrates, what
 37 Text |     holiness. And therefore, if you please, I will ask you not to hide
 38 Text |         your wisdom makes you lazy. Please to exert yourself, for there
 39 Text |         holiness is learning how to please the gods in word and deed,
 40 Text |             be thrown away upon me. Please then to tell me, what is


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 41 Text |          Not at all.~SOCRATES: Then please to answer.~ALCIBIADES: Ask
 42 Text |        SOCRATES: Very good; and now please to tell me what is the excellence
 43 Text |            think that you knew? And please to answer truly, that our


Gorgias
    Part
 44 Intro|           better? Tell me that, and please to be a little milder in
 45 Text |             shall soon know better; please to answer me a question:—
 46 Text |          not use as many words as I please?~SOCRATES: Only to think,
 47 Text |             any statement which you please; and in your turn ask and
 48 Text |             now you may do what you please with my answer.~POLUS: What
 49 Text |             exile any one whom they please.~SOCRATES: By the dog, Polus,
 50 Text |             exile any one whom they please?~POLUS: I did.~SOCRATES:
 51 Text |           witnesses against me. But please to refresh my memory a little;
 52 Text |            so far as they are just? Please to reflect, and tell me
 53 Text | consequences in form?~POLUS: If you please.~SOCRATES: Is it not a fact
 54 Text |             they are stronger? Then please to begin again, and tell
 55 Text |          good and evil—do we agree? Please not to answer without consideration.~
 56 Text |      without a head (compare Laws); please then to go on a little longer,
 57 Text |            Well said, Socrates; and please to observe how ready I am
 58 Text |             convinced for all that. Please, then, to remember that
 59 Text |       Mysian, Socrates, or what you please. For if you refuse, the


Ion
    Part
 60 Text |       Panathenaea.~ION: And I will, please heaven.~SOCRATES: I often


Laches
    Part
 61 Text |           for a young man to learn. Please to say whether you agree
 62 Text |            reckon you as one of us. Please then to take my place, and


Laws
    Book
 63 1    |             are equally in earnest. Please follow me and the argument
 64 1    |      another form of virtue, if you please. In this way we shall have
 65 1    |              Let us proceed, if you please.~Athenian. Well, then, if
 66 2    |            composing with a view to please the bad taste of their judges,
 67 3    |            for the argument’s sake. Please to remark that the experience
 68 3    |         give them any laws which we please, whether taken from the
 69 3    |          will do all in my power to please you.~Cleinias. Thank you.~
 70 4    |            better beginning, if you please, with the principles which
 71 6    |            may pass the day as they please, and that there is no necessity
 72 7    |           what extent we may, if we please, without difficulty implant
 73 7    |           not only if their parents please, but if they do not please;
 74 7    |          please, but if they do not please; there shall be compulsory
 75 7    |           by a question, and do you please to answer me: You know,
 76 7    |           our state, if they do not please either us who give them,
 77 9    |              and we may also, if we please, at this very moment choose
 78 9    |             soon be. Let us, if you please, consider these matters.~
 79 9    |         great as the voluntary? And please to consider whether I am
 80 9    |             his life) whatever they please, and they will be pure;
 81 9    |            in any manner which they please.~And if (which is a rare
 82 9    |            or in any way which they please, and if he return he shall
 83 10   |          our request is a fair one, please to accept our challenge.”~
 84 10   |       argument, they may do as they please and act according to their
 85 12   |            friends, we will, if you please, hold fast, and not let


Lysis
    Part
 86 Text |      letters in any order which you please, or to take up the lyre
 87 Text |            plectrum, exactly as you please, and neither father nor
 88 Text |          women,—and we may do as we please about them, and no one will


Menexenus
    Part
 89 Text |          assured that they will not please us by sorrowing and lamenting
 90 Text |             to heart, and they will please us best if they bear their


Meno
    Part
 91 Text |         that you know what he said: please, therefore, to remind me
 92 Text |            you I must answer.~MENO: Please do.~SOCRATES: Would you
 93 Text |           matter, but I will try to please you to the utmost of my
 94 Text |           virtue, and who they are. Please, Anytus, to help me and
 95 Text |           Meno (let them be, if you please, the Sophists); I only ask


Parmenides
    Part
 96 Intro|             our own ideas, while we please ourselves with the conviction


Phaedo
    Part
 97 Text |      earnestness of Cebes seemed to please Socrates. Here, said he,
 98 Text |             have no concern:—If you please, then, we will proceed with
 99 Text |            be made. And now, if you please, let us return to the point
100 Text |        Socrates; what else should I please?~Very good.~Must we not,
101 Text |         will maintain our position. Please to tell me then, Cebes,
102 Text |           which is already forfeit. Please then to do as I say, and


Phaedrus
    Part
103 Intro|        before: I did so in order to please Phaedrus. If I said what
104 Intro|            what was wrong at first, please to attribute my error to
105 Intro|           good man should not be to please or persuade his fellow-servants,
106 Intro|             fellow-servants, but to please his good masters who are
107 Intro|            as he says, ‘in order to please Phaedrus.’ The speech of
108 Intro|          man of sense should try to please not his fellow-servants,
109 Intro|         knowledge; they are—what we please, and if employed as ‘peacemakers’
110 Text |            to read, where would you please to sit?~SOCRATES: Let us
111 Text |           to other men, in order to please his beloved;—that, if true,
112 Text |             anything else which you please.~SOCRATES: Come, O ye Muses,
113 Text |             may take any which they please. The soul of a man may pass
114 Text |           Granted; if you will only please to get on.~SOCRATES: Suppose
115 Text |             again:~PHAEDRUS: If you please; but you will not find what
116 Text |             sense should not try to please his fellow-servants (at


Philebus
    Part
117 Intro|           in effect: ‘Admit, if you please, that rhetoric is the greatest
118 Text |   ingeniously brought us round, and please to consider which of us
119 Text |            wish.~SOCRATES: Then now please to consider the next stage
120 Text |           Capital; and now will you please to give me your best attention?~
121 Text |         ashamed?~PROTARCHUS: As you please.~SOCRATES: May I not have


Protagoras
    Part
122 Text |          the company?~Whichever you please, I said; you shall determine
123 Text |         become better no doubt: but please to answer in a different
124 Text |            and resume the argument. Please to consider: Is there or
125 Text |             But what matter? if you please I please; and let us assume,
126 Text |             matter? if you please I please; and let us assume, if you
127 Text |             you will.~Whichever you please, if you will only answer
128 Text |            could use fewer of them. Please therefore, if you talk with
129 Text |          Protagoras replied: As you please;—and Hippias, Prodicus,


The Republic
    Book
130 1    |            Yes, he said, I will, to please you, since you will not
131 2    |            work in the soul. If you please, then, I will revive the
132 2    |           other an evil to him. And please, as Glaucon requested of
133 4    |            an illustration? ~If you please. ~You know, I said, that
134 5    |     community may be of many kinds. Please, therefore, to say what
135 5    |              and therefore you will please to give a defence of both. ~
136 5    |             and as many more as you please, if only this State of yours
137 6    |            with the mob and seek to please them? ~That is evident. ~
138 6    |             see for yourselves; and please to remark in what I am about
139 7    |             he created them, not to please themselves, but to be his
140 7    |            I guess for you? ~If you please. ~Then I should say that
141 8    |             on any others whom they please. ~That is most true, he
142 10   |           this imitator is? ~If you please. Well, then, here are three
143 10   |             is his art intended, to please or to affect the rational


The Seventh Letter
    Part
144 Text |        regular habits of life which please them but do not please me,
145 Text |        which please them but do not please me, I would not offend them
146 Text |              when Dionysios, if you please, addressed me with the remark


The Sophist
    Part
147 Intro|            him an image-maker if we please, but he will only say, ‘
148 Text |             we are in a difficulty, please to tell us what you mean,
149 Text |           we are in a great strait. Please to begin by explaining this


The Statesman
    Part
150 Intro|             tedious and irrelevant. Please to observe that they can
151 Text |           the order of enquiry. And please to say, whether he, too,
152 Text |             think that it does; and please to assist me in making the
153 Text |      distinction we may make, if we please, a subdivision of the section
154 Text |        either of them, whichever we please.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Cannot
155 Text |           assist in exhibiting him. Please to answer me a question.~


The Symposium
    Part
156 Intro|       encomium of love, or what you please.~The company applaud the
157 Text |          him. Serve up whatever you please, for there is no one to
158 Text |          unsay my words; but do you please not to watch me, as I fear
159 Text |             To this I will proceed; please to give me your very best
160 Text |             anything else which you please.~When Socrates had done
161 Text |             he may do me some harm. Please to see to this, and either
162 Text |         Socrates any task which you please, and he on his right hand
163 Text |            I will also tell, if you please—and indeed I am bound to


Theaetetus
    Part
164 Intro|          you, Socrates, whether you please or not, must continue to
165 Intro|          always at this rough game. Please, then, to favour me.~‘On
166 Intro|             of sense.~We may, if we please, carry this scepticism a
167 Text |          you when I agree with you; please, then, to take Theaetetus
168 Text |          you, Socrates, may, if you please, overthrow by an opposite
169 Text |             than you; and therefore please not to imagine that I am
170 Text |         inspires me like a passion. Please, then, to try a fall with
171 Text |          argument; to which, if you please, we will now return.~THEODORUS:
172 Text |            the mind, or whatever we please to call it, of which they
173 Text |          truly. And now, my friend, please to begin again at this point;


Timaeus
    Part
174 Text |         because he thought so or to please Critias, said that in his