The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |        charge against me. But the simple truth is, O Athenians, that


Charmides
    Part
  2 Intro|  philosophical. The first two are simple enough and partially true,
  3 Text |    speaking is knowledge pure and simple.~Very true.~And if a man


Cratylus
    Part
  4 Intro|           now proceeds to analyse simple words into the letters of
  5 Intro|        made a distinction between simple and compound words, a truth
  6 Intro|        musical scale, are few and simple, though admitting of infinite
  7 Intro|           trace in poetry how the simple succession of lines, not
  8 Text |        you mean?~SOCRATES: A very simple matter. I may illustrate
  9 Text |        imagine, is to inform: the simple truth is, that he who knows


Critias
    Part
 10 Text |           of their buildings were simple, but in others they put


Euthydemus
    Part
 11 Intro|           like the schoolmen; the simple use of language has been,
 12 Text |           perhaps, is even a more simple question than the first,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 13 Pre  |            the lesson imparted is simple, and the irony more transparent


Gorgias
    Part
 14 Intro|          truth, and draw out in a simple form the main theses of
 15 Intro|         can be true and innocent, simple and independent; he can
 16 Intro| intellectual world. They are very simple in style; a few touches
 17 Text |          do.~SOCRATES: Not so, my simple friend, but because you
 18 Text |        over himself’?~SOCRATES: A simple thing enough; just what


Ion
    Part
 19 Intro|          genuineness. The plan is simple; the dramatic interest consists


Laches
    Part
 20 Intro|           is less of poetical and simple beauty, and more of dramatic


Laws
    Book
 21 1    |        would be very childish and simple.~Athenian. Suppose, Cleinias
 22 3    |          they were what is called simple–minded; and when they were
 23 3    |        generations living on in a simple manner, although ruder,
 24 4    |          the law of marriage in a simple form; it may run as follows:—
 25 4    |     privileges. This would be the simple law about marriage. The
 26 4    |         but employ force pure and simple. Moreover, there is a third
 27 4    |        sort, was the law pure and simple; and that which preceded,
 28 5    |        that he be always true and simple; and that no deceitful person
 29 5    |       money may be easy and quite simple.~The next thing to be noted
 30 6    |       daily food ought to be of a simple and humble kind. When the
 31 9    |          into two sorts: there is simple ignorance, which is the
 32 10   |       watery, or fiery substance, simple or compound—how should we
 33 10   |          law. And let this be the simple form of the law:—No man
 34 11   |         principle of them is very simple:—Thou shalt not, if thou


Lysis
    Part
 35 Intro|    Menexenus and the reserved and simple Lysis. Socrates draws out
 36 Text |    already far gone in your love. Simple and foolish as I am, the


Menexenus
    Part
 37 Pre  |            the lesson imparted is simple, and the irony more transparent


Meno
    Part
 38 Intro|         ancient, begins with very simple conceptions. It is almost
 39 Text |            Socrates, it is such a simple answer.~SOCRATES: Why simple?~
 40 Text |      simple answer.~SOCRATES: Why simple?~MENO: Because, according


Parmenides
    Part
 41 Text |         some one were to abstract simple notions of like, unlike,


Phaedo
    Part
 42 Intro|         to dissolution? Is it the simple or the compound, the unchanging
 43 Intro|        things. This is a safe and simple answer, which escapes the
 44 Intro|         step beyond ‘the safe and simple answer.’ We may say, not
 45 Intro|        knowledge by his ‘safe and simple answer,’ that beauty is
 46 Intro|       satisfied with his safe and simple method of ideas. He wants
 47 Text |           do you mean? he said.~A simple thing enough, which I will
 48 Text |         they are, having the same simple self-existent and unchanging
 49 Text |           the divine and pure and simple.~Most true, Socrates, answered
 50 Text |       comparison was, that when a simple man who has no skill in


Phaedrus
    Part
 51 Text |          apparitions innocent and simple and calm and happy, which
 52 Text |           learn and to teach is a simple or multiform thing, and
 53 Text |           multiform thing, and if simple, then to enquire what power
 54 Text |      SOCRATES: He would be a very simple person, and quite a stranger
 55 Text |       them in such a way that the simple form of speech may be addressed


Philebus
    Part
 56 Intro|           the only good?’ are the simple forms which the enquiry
 57 Intro|         distinguish the original, simple elements from the manifold
 58 Intro|      water. These and a few other simple principles, as they have
 59 Intro|   reducing physics, to a few very simple truths. And not unfrequently
 60 Intro|    estimate the influence which a simple principle such as ‘Act so
 61 Intro|     honesty, virtue, love, have a simple meaning; they have become
 62 Intro|    abstract ideas: or compare the simple manner in which the question
 63 Text |          not pleasure and pain be simple and devoid of quality?~PROTARCHUS:


Protagoras
    Part
 64 Text |        good (this would be a very simple observation, and quite unworthy


The Republic
    Book
 65 1    |     unjust is lord over the truly simple and just: he is the stronger,
 66 1    |           did he would not be the simple amusing creature which he
 67 2    |             Then is God perfectly simple and true both in word and
 68 3    |           narration may be either simple narration or imitation,
 69 3    |            and his poetry becomes simple narration. However, in order
 70 3    |          been, not imitation, but simple narration. The passage would
 71 3    |        this way the whole becomes simple narrative. ~I understand,
 72 3    |        saying that one of them is simple and has but slight changes;
 73 3    | gymnastics is twin sister of that simple music which we were just
 74 3    |         which, like our music, is simple and good; and especially
 75 3    |       good men often appear to be simple, and are easily practised
 76 3    |        been educated only in that simple music which, as we said,
 77 3    |           content to practise the simple gymnastics, will have nothing
 78 4    |       gathered into one. ~But how simple of you to use the term State
 79 4    |  Certainly, he said. ~Whereas the simple and moderate desires which
 80 4    |        small: but thirst pure and simple will desire drink pure and
 81 4    |        will desire drink pure and simple, which is the natural satisfaction
 82 4    |        hunger? ~Yes, he said; the simple desire is, as you say, in
 83 4    |         say, in every case of the simple object, and the qualified
 84 4    |          the relation; others are simple and have their correlatives
 85 4    |           have their correlatives simple. ~I do not know what you
 86 5    |          things will be. ~Yes, my simple friend, but the answer is
 87 5    |           termed either, pure and simple; this unknown term, when
 88 7    |         supply the answer; for if simple unity could be adequately
 89 8    |           are no longer to be had simple and earnest, but are made
 90 8    |     desire of eating, that is, of simple food and condiments, in
 91 10   |           may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them
 92 10   |          only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to
 93 10   |         upon them, and recited in simple prose. ~Yes, he said. ~They


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 94 Text |         among you cannot live the simple Dorian life according to


The Sophist
    Part
 95 Intro|       Being. This doctrine is the simple converse of the famous proposition
 96 Intro|          from the analysis of the simple ideas of Unity or Being.
 97 Intro|      Again, ignorance is twofold, simple ignorance, and ignorance
 98 Intro|        opinion, may be either the simple imitator, who thinks that
 99 Intro|  described as a movement from the simple to the complex. Beginning
100 Intro|           hold them together. The simple is developed into the complex,
101 Intro|    complex returns again into the simple. Beginning with the highest
102 Text |    expected from such a short and simple question. At the same time,
103 Text |         be applied to him on some simple and smaller thing, unless
104 Text |         classes of imitators is a simple creature, who thinks that
105 Text |        Shall we regard one as the simple imitator—the other as the


The Statesman
    Part
106 Intro| circumstances are endless, and no simple or universal rule can suit
107 Text |          composite species out of simple kinds—the whole class may
108 Text |          termed the primitive and simple possession of man, and with
109 Text |        admit of any universal and simple rule. And no art whatsoever
110 Text |   describe.~STRANGER: A perfectly simple principle can never be applied
111 Text |           which is the reverse of simple.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
112 Text |   conversant with number, whether simple or square or cube, or comprising


The Symposium
    Part
113 Intro|           In the abstract, all is simple, and we are not troubled
114 Intro|           principles of music are simple in themselves, but confused
115 Text |           in most cities they are simple and easily intelligible;
116 Text |        are dishonourable is not a simple question; they are honourable
117 Text |             Then,’ she said, ‘the simple truth is, that men love
118 Text |        beauty absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which
119 Text |     converse with the true beauty simple and divine? Remember how


Theaetetus
    Part
120 Intro|          of the compound into the simple;’ or ‘right opinion with
121 Intro| philosophy, it was held in a very simple way, without much basis
122 Intro|        illogical consistency. His simple and noble thoughts, like
123 Intro|   question which to us appears so simple: ‘How do we make mistakes?’
124 Intro|           a compound of which the simple elements are unknown to
125 Intro|       than and different from the simple elements. But ancient philosophy
126 Intro|          are sometimes called our simple ideas pass into one another,
127 Intro|       relative, though apparently simple. The senses mutually confirm
128 Intro|          verify for himself. When simple and unpretentious, it is
129 Text |          when I am asking for one simple thing.~THEAETETUS: What
130 Text |          tedious way of putting a simple question, which is only,
131 Text |          blame because he appears simple and of no account when he
132 Text |          Certainly.~SOCRATES: The simple sensations which reach the
133 Text |            May we not suspect the simple truth to be that he who
134 Text |            that the syllable is a simple form arising out of the
135 Text |           the reason why they are simple and indivisible? I can see
136 Text |           say that the letters or simple elements as a class are


Timaeus
    Part
137 Intro|     element into another, for the simple air or water is without
138 Intro|           of reasoning about very simple facts, or an inability to
139 Intro|         the further step, however simple and obvious, is just what
140 Intro|      external object, this is the simple act of sight. When the particles
141 Intro|           not take words in their simple meaning or sentences in
142 Text |          would suffice for men of simple life; and they were to spend
143 Text |         not many, or definite and simple kinds; but they are distinguished