The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|         the sons of gods, is he serious or jesting? It may be observed
  2 Intro|     might desire that to such a serious charge Socrates had given
  3 Intro|       Socrates had given a more serious answer.~Truly characteristic
  4 Intro|        all his life long. He is serious when he is speaking of his
  5 Intro|      evidence, do not require a serious refutation. Nor are the
  6 Text |         similar, or even a less serious occasion, prayed and entreated
  7 Text |      will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that


Charmides
    Part
  8 PreS |        the same motive, whether serious or only literary. Nor is


Cratylus
    Part
  9 Intro|      with Hermogenes, and is he serious in those fanciful etymologies,
 10 Intro|     greatly to relish? Or is he serious in part only; and can we
 11 Intro|         not prove that they are serious. For Plato is in advance
 12 Intro|         blaze of jests the most serious matters, and then again
 13 Intro|       the dialogue stand to the serious? Granting all that can be
 14 Intro|  dialogue Socrates becomes more serious, though he does not lay
 15 Intro|      explain all that will be a serious business; still, as I have
 16 Intro|        human speech, trivial or serious, there is a law of proportion.
 17 Text |     solemn question; there is a serious and also a facetious explanation
 18 Text |        of both these names; the serious explanation is not to be


Euthydemus
    Part
 19 Intro| elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim
 20 Intro|       The two strangers are not serious; there are jests at the
 21 Intro|         plays of words received serious attention; in which contradiction
 22 Intro|      the jests appear to have a serious meaning; but we have lost
 23 Text |       parts of learning are not serious, and therefore I say that
 24 Text |      that the gentlemen are not serious, but are only playing with
 25 Text |       will exhibit to you their serious purpose, and keep their
 26 Text |       from abroad. They are not serious, but, like the Egyptian
 27 Text |         when they see me deeply serious and interested, they also
 28 Text |    interested, they also may be serious. You, Cleinias, I said,
 29 Text |        said, and they should be serious, and show us in sober earnest


Euthyphro
    Part
 30 Intro|       of Socrates, were equally serious in their religious beliefs
 31 Text |        the charge? Well, a very serious charge, which shows a good


Gorgias
    Part
 32 Intro|   jesting when he is profoundly serious. At length he makes even
 33 Intro|     sham, in which, without any serious purpose, the poet lends
 34 Intro|     Greek writings which have a serious purpose; in spirit they
 35 Intro|   balances the two sides of the serious controversy, which he has
 36 Text |       what question can be more serious than this?—whether he should


Laches
    Part
 37 Intro|   plurality of votes: in such a serious matter as the education
 38 Text |      not. But perhaps Nicias is serious, and not merely talking


Laws
    Book
 39 2    |        is incapable of enduring serious training, they are called
 40 3    |    second capture of Troy was a serious offence against them, because
 41 6    |         Athenian. The matter is serious, and excuses will not serve
 42 6    |   amusement, but they will be a serious employment too; for the
 43 6    |      You mean, I suppose, their serious and noble pursuit?~Athenian.
 44 6    |        a mistake, and with this serious purpose let games be instituted
 45 7    |        not seeing that the most serious and detrimental consequences
 46 7    |     bodily fashions are no such serious evils, but frequent changes
 47 7    |      Athenian. I say that about serious matters a man should be
 48 7    |         matters a man should be serious, and about a matter which
 49 7    |     about a matter which is not serious he should not be, serious;
 50 7    |       serious he should not be, serious; and that God is the natural
 51 7    |       worthy object of our most serious and blessed endeavours,
 52 7    |   present they think that their serious suits should be for the
 53 7    |     sports, for they deem war a serious. pursuit, which must be
 54 7    |     deemed by us to be the most serious of our pursuits. And therefore,
 55 7    |        of measures—some who are serious, others who aim only at
 56 7    |    further subdivisions. Of the serious, one kind is of those engaged
 57 7    |         which these afford. For serious things cannot be understood
 58 7    |        he should never take any serious interest in them himself,
 59 7    |      comedy. And, if any of the serious poets, as they are termed,
 60 7    |    mankind, or able to take any serious thought or charge of them.
 61 9    |      spare time hear and take a serious interest in listening to
 62 9    |       that then there is a very serious evil, which affects the
 63 9    |        omission shall be a most serious charge.~If a slave strike
 64 10   |         other arts which have a serious purpose, and these co–operate
 65 10   |         their impiety is a very serious matter; they not only make
 66 11   |      orphans, the law speaks in serious accents, both of persuasion
 67 11   |        in jest; in anger and in serious earnest they shall not be
 68 12   |      power the greater and more serious evil from the lesser. And


Lysis
    Part
 69 Intro|     When Menexenus returns, the serious dialectic begins. He is


Parmenides
    Part
 70 Intro|      remark that Plato is quite serious in his objections to his
 71 Intro|        for the undertaking is a serious one, as he truly says; nor
 72 Intro|     danger of error is the most serious; for, if they remain unexamined,
 73 Text |        a great purpose; nor any serious intention of deceiving the
 74 Text |    better.~That, Socrates, is a serious task to impose on a man


Phaedo
    Part
 75 Intro|         The answer to the ‘very serious question’ of generation


Phaedrus
    Part
 76 Intro|        before we can attach any serious meaning to his words. Had
 77 Intro|        his life Plato was quite serious in maintaining a former
 78 Intro|      may believe that Plato was serious in his conception of the
 79 Intro|  transmigration. Was he equally serious in the rest? For example,
 80 Intro|    figure of the chariot. Is he serious, again, in regarding love
 81 Intro|         Phaedo, Symp.) Or is he serious in holding that each soul
 82 Intro|      generally. He is much more serious in distinguishing men from
 83 Intro|   inclined to ask whether he is serious: Is he not rather using
 84 Intro|       new and old are liable to serious misconstruction, as he elsewhere
 85 Text |     author; and so putting on a serious face, he proceeds to display
 86 Text |      the truth may, without any serious purpose, steal away the
 87 Text |        man who can be amused by serious talk, and can discourse
 88 Text | Phaedrus. But nobler far is the serious pursuit of the dialectician,
 89 Text |   necessarily much which is not serious, and that neither poetry
 90 Text |      higher name, befitting the serious pursuit of their life.~PHAEDRUS:


Philebus
    Part
 91 Intro|      place mind? That is a very serious and awful question, which
 92 Intro|         us to speak of the most serious objection to the utilitarian
 93 Intro|         manner playful yet also serious, and sometimes as if the
 94 Intro|         in later ages. The more serious attacks on traditional beliefs
 95 Text |      PROTARCHUS: That is a very serious question, Philebus, to which
 96 Text |         the danger will be very serious if we err on this point.~
 97 Text |      that we are raising a very serious enquiry.~PROTARCHUS: There


Protagoras
    Part
 98 Intro|      hardly consistent with the serious defence of Simonides. (6)
 99 Intro|        the day.~But is Socrates serious in maintaining (1) that


The Republic
    Book
100 1    |       to me to be of a far more serious character. Which of us has
101 2    |       the inquiry would be of a serious nature, and would require
102 2    |        to think, will be a very serious task. Reflect therefore. ~
103 2    |           A fault which is most serious, I said; the fault of telling
104 3    |        hardly be able to play a serious part in life, and at the
105 5    |         your argument do us any serious injury you shall be acquitted
106 5    |        once in their life to be serious. Not long ago, as we shall
107 5    |      have you not fallen into a serious inconsistency in saying
108 6    |        at will and engage in no serious labor, as we intend them
109 7    |        I said, that we were not serious, and spoke with too much
110 10   |    because no human thing is of serious importance, and grief stands


The Seventh Letter
    Part
111 Text |        fears might lead to some serious consequence, he now tried


The Sophist
    Part
112 Intro|        all, much less become of serious importance? The answer to
113 Intro|        of philosophy, if made a serious business (compare Republic),
114 Intro|      not the result of exact or serious enquiry, but is floating
115 Text |         do.~STRANGER: Let us be serious then, and consider the question
116 Text |        liable to accusations so serious. Yet one thing may be said


The Statesman
    Part
117 Intro|        artistic whole. Both the serious discussions and the jests
118 Intro|        called, for they have no serious use. Then (6) there are
119 Text |       with difficulty great and serious changes of many different
120 Text |     none of these things have a serious purpose—amusement is their
121 Text |    objects not worthy even of a serious censure.~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
    Part
122 Intro|   discourse, half playful, half serious, which I dedicate to the
123 Intro|     poetry, the playful and the serious, are so subtly intermingled
124 Intro|         alluding playfully to a serious problem of Greek philosophy (
125 Intro| disguises under comic imagery a serious purpose; of Agathon, who
126 Intro| earnestness in this jest; three serious principles seem to be insinuated:—
127 Text |     this world at present. I am serious, and therefore I must beg
128 Text |      this man has grown quite a serious matter to me. Since I became
129 Text |        and looked within at his serious purpose, I saw in him divine
130 Text |         purpose, which is quite serious, and do you consider what


Theaetetus
    Part
131 Intro|   illustrations, as well as the serious thoughts, run through the
132 Intro|     occupation. There is also a serious side to the image, which
133 Intro|        tell how far Socrates is serious; for the Socratic irony
134 Intro|        from you that there is a serious objection which may be urged
135 Intro|      that Protagoras bade me be serious, and complained of our getting
136 Text |        Protagoras bidding us be serious, as the text, ‘Man is the
137 Text |      which threatens to be more serious than the last.~THEODORUS:


Timaeus
    Part
138 Intro|       and Plato, or between the serious thoughts of Plato and his
139 Intro|        is a real interest and a serious lesson, if we remember that
140 Intro|     more, let us reflect on two serious passages in which the order
141 Text |         this subject would be a serious task; but if, as before,