The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|             the heaven; and making the worse appear the better cause,
  2 Intro|               should make the citizens worse when he has to live with
  3 Text |            earth beneath, and made the worse appear the better cause.
  4 Text |               heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause;
  5 Text |                no gods, and making the worse appear the better cause;
  6 Text |             and not have been much the worse. But I have none, and therefore


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|             Some of these are not much worse than the conjectures of
  8 Intro|            better and some of them are worse than others, and give better
  9 Intro|             others, and give better or worse laws, and make better or
 10 Intro|               laws, and make better or worse names. Cratylus cannot admit
 11 Intro|              one another. But they are worse than useless when they outrun
 12 Text |        therefore to be deemed by you a worse legislator, provided he
 13 Text |           saying? for there is nothing worse than self-deception—when
 14 Text |               some are better and some worse?~CRATYLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 15 Text |               figures, better, and the worse execute them worse; and
 16 Text |             and the worse execute them worse; and of builders also, the
 17 Text |           build fairer houses, and the worse build them worse.~CRATYLUS:
 18 Text |               and the worse build them worse.~CRATYLUS: True.~SOCRATES:
 19 Text |             their work better and some worse?~CRATYLUS: No; there I do
 20 Text |             laws are better and others worse?~CRATYLUS: No, indeed.~SOCRATES:


Crito
    Part
 21 Text |              care. Now, can there be a worse disgrace than this—that
 22 Text |               property; or that even a worse evil may happen to us? Now,
 23 Text |         consequences whether better or worse, shall we insist on the


Euthydemus
    Part
 24 Intro|      philosophy and politics, a little worse by perverting the objects
 25 Text |            wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use; for the
 26 Text |               only make a bad business worse.~And now that you have delivered
 27 Text |                better than the one and worse than the other; but if they
 28 Text |         talking nonsense, for they are worse than either; or, if the
 29 Text |                better than the one and worse than the other; only on


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 30 Intro|           expedient.~However, he is no worse than other Athenian statesmen;
 31 Text |                are unable to teach the worse?~ALCIBIADES: I think that


Gorgias
    Part
 32 Intro|             called): (1) that to do is worse than to suffer evil; and (
 33 Intro|                it, that doing wrong is worse than suffering, and that
 34 Intro|            opinion of any man to do is worse than to suffer evil.~Polus,
 35 Intro|       testimony of Polus himself to be worse or more hurtful than suffering.~
 36 Intro|               go unpunished and become worse and worse, taking care only
 37 Intro|        unpunished and become worse and worse, taking care only that he
 38 Intro|             and discord in life is far worse than the discord of musical
 39 Intro|             saying that to do wrong is worse than to suffer wrong, and
 40 Intro|                more, that to strike is worse than to be stricken—to do
 41 Intro|             Pericles make the citizens worse? For he gave them pay, and
 42 Intro|             between the better and the worse is going on within us. And
 43 Intro|              is a better (as well as a worse) public opinion of which
 44 Intro|            fear of being governed by a worse man than himself (Republic).
 45 Text |               was saying that to do is worse than to suffer injustice?~
 46 Text |           better to have more than the worse, the more powerful than
 47 Text |             the better should rule the worse, the noble have more than
 48 Text |           weaker, and the superior the worse, or whether better is to
 49 Text |                nothing of a better and worse, and there are other processes
 50 Text |             whether they are better or worse for this?~CALLICLES: I must
 51 Text |              Athenians, who found them worse and made them better, from
 52 Text |              us better, and of others, worse, and we ought to gratify
 53 Text |              gave him nothing, or even worse if rightly estimated. Is
 54 Text |              suffer, is in that degree worse; and the other position,
 55 Text |            city, whether for better or worse, then I can only say that
 56 Text |             citizens better instead of worse?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:


Ion
    Part
 57 Text |            Homer.~SOCRATES: What, in a worse way?~ION: Yes, in a far
 58 Text |                way?~ION: Yes, in a far worse.~SOCRATES: And Homer in
 59 Text |            from him who recognizes the worse, or the same?~ION: Clearly


Laws
    Book
 60 1    |                really conquered by the worse, is a question which requires
 61 1    |             and in another, and even a worse manner, they will be the
 62 2    |               are not a whit better or worse than the work of to–day,
 63 3    |            more than the immoderate or worse.”~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
 64 3    |        remarked that the Persians grew worse and worse. And we affirm
 65 3    |                Persians grew worse and worse. And we affirm the reason
 66 5    |         superior, which rules, and the worse and inferior, which serves;
 67 5    |            beget better men and others worse; and we must legislate accordingly.
 68 6    |            which is likely to make men worse. These are our original
 69 7    |           whereas the other makes them worse.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
 70 7    |               and erroneous?~Cleinias. Worse than ludicrous, I should
 71 8    |                 and the whole city, be worse prepared than boxers? And
 72 8    |                Cleinias, they were far worse educated in their minds
 73 8    |         sometimes better and sometimes worse.~Cleinias. Of course.~Athenian.
 74 9    |           either better or not so much worse as he would have been. But
 75 9    |            judged by the law to be the worse may really be the less cruel,
 76 9    |                cruel may be really the worse, and may have executed the
 77 9    |              clandestinely; or what is worse, when they are disorderly
 78 9    |               matters which judges far worse educated than ours would
 79 9    |            that can happen to men; far worse are the punishments which
 80 10   |             are many of them, which is worse.~Athenian. Well, then; what
 81 10   |         knowing the better, choose the worse because they are overcome
 82 10   |              the better place, and the worse to the worse, and so assigning
 83 10   |            place, and the worse to the worse, and so assigning to them
 84 10   |                know that if you become worse you shall go to the worse
 85 10   |              worse you shall go to the worse souls, or if better to the
 86 10   |           memories and quick wits, are worse; although both of them are
 87 11   |               men are the superiors of worse men, and in general elders
 88 12   |                home neither better nor worse, let him be praised at any


Lysis
    Part
 89 Text |              it is really too bad; and worse still is his manner of singing


Meno
    Part
 90 Text |              made the shoes or clothes worse than he received them, could
 91 Text |         sending his disciples from him worse than he received them, and


Parmenides
    Part
 92 Intro|            would seem so.’ ‘There is a worse consequence yet.’ ‘What


Phaedo
    Part
 93 Text |             slower.~Very true.~And the worse is from the better, and
 94 Text |              persuade you that I am no worse off now than at any other
 95 Text |            misologists, he replied, no worse thing can happen to a man
 96 Text |           heart: Endure, my heart; far worse hast thou endured!’~Do you
 97 Text |            then he would also know the worse, since the same science
 98 Text |                know the better and the worse.~What expectations I had


Phaedrus
    Part
 99 Intro|              principles—a better and a worse—reason and desire, which
100 Intro|              Helen, or some misfortune worse than blindness might be
101 Intro|              do we not often make ‘the worse appear the better cause;’
102 Text |            best of my way home, lest a worse thing be inflicted upon
103 Text |                 Then the charioteer is worse off than ever; he falls


Protagoras
    Part
104 Text |         inferior, then the inferior or worse ought not to preside over
105 Text |            result is, that you are the worse off both in public and private


The Republic
    Book
106 1    | Thrasymachus-whether we live better or worse from not knowing what you
107 1    |              to be ruled by one who is worse than himself. And the fear
108 2    |          better and fairer, or for the worse and more unsightly? ~If
109 2    |                can only change for the worse, for we cannot suppose him
110 2    |                 desire to make himself worse? ~Impossible. ~Then it is
111 3    |           heart, Endure, my heart; far worse hast thou endured!" ~Certainly,
112 3    |             narrate anything, and, the worse he is, the more unscrupulous
113 3    |                of harmony the flute is worse than all the stringed instruments
114 4    |              will be that he becomes a worse potter? ~Yes; he greatly
115 4    |           there is a better and also a worse principle; and when the
116 4    |                when the better has the worse under control, then a man
117 4    |                the greater mass of the worse -in this case he is blamed
118 4    |               the better part over the worse. ~Yes, he said, I see that
119 4    |           reasons about the better and worse to be different from the
120 5    |             Would a painter be any the worse because, after having delineated
121 5    |         existed? ~He would be none the worse. ~Well, and were we not
122 5    |             sure. ~And is our theory a worse theory because we are unable
123 6    |                and there cannot be any worse fault in a guardian of the
124 7    |                ought we to give them a worse life, when they might have
125 8    |                 for they take away the worse and leave the better part,
126 9    |                 His case will be still worse, if you suppose him to be
127 9    |               the actual tyrant lead a worse life than he whose life
128 9    |                saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes
129 9    |                honorable, or better or worse, but which is the more pleasant
130 9    |            bribe in order to compass a worse ruin." ~Yes, said Glaucon,
131 9    |        baseness, which will make him a worse man, even though he acquire
132 9    |                is undetected only gets worse, whereas he who is detected
133 10   |            pursuits make men better or worse in private or public life,
134 10   |                better and which is the worse; and so he will choose,
135 10   |               to others and suffer yet worse himself; but let him know


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
136 Text |                been beset by informers worse than they once were by their
137 Text |               not only do, but what is worse, pray for the greatest evils.


The Seventh Letter
    Part
138 Text |             were being altered for the worse, and the evil was growing


The Sophist
    Part
139 Intro|                than feared, and are no worse than the rest of mankind.
140 Intro|               it were a thousand times worse than it is, it could be
141 Text |            like or the better from the worse.~THEAETETUS: I see now what
142 Text |          second, which throws away the worse and preserves the better,
143 Text |              preceded in a greater and worse perplexity.~STRANGER: We


The Statesman
    Part
144 Intro|               that ‘the more haste the worse speed.’~And now let us begin
145 Intro|              and not by force? Is he a worse physician who uses a little
146 Intro|              would not this be a still worse evil than the other? ‘Certainly.’
147 Intro|               class neither better nor worse than other classes, not
148 Intro|            Greek cities which were far worse now in his old age than
149 Intro|              youth, and were to become worse and worse in the ages which
150 Intro|               were to become worse and worse in the ages which followed.
151 Text |            better and some of them are worse; the better are said to
152 Text |            make them better from being worse.~YOUNG SOCRATES: No one
153 Text |                better and some for the worse.~YOUNG SOCRATES: What do
154 Text |         written rules.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Worse and worse.~STRANGER: But
155 Text |              YOUNG SOCRATES: Worse and worse.~STRANGER: But hear what
156 Text |              would not this be a still worse evil than the former?~YOUNG


The Symposium
    Part
157 Text |      sacrifices, not the better to the worse, but the worse to the better.~
158 Text |           better to the worse, but the worse to the better.~I rather
159 Text |             door, and endure a slavery worse than that of any slave—in
160 Text |                 Now Plenty who was the worse for nectar (there was no


Theaetetus
    Part
161 Intro|          ignorance makes his condition worse than if he knew. For the
162 Text |              and travail which is even worse than that of the women.
163 Text |              there might have been yet worse things in store for you,
164 Text |            changed into the other, the worse into the better. As in education,
165 Text |            that there was a better and worse, and that in respect of


Timaeus
    Part
166 Intro|       preferable to a longer which was worse, and therefore they covered
167 Intro|           greater. There are other and worse diseases which are prior
168 Text |            longer-lived race which was worse, or a shorter-lived race
169 Text |                a longer one, which was worse; and therefore they covered
170 Text |            affections be severe, still worse are the prior disorders;