The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |             scene and makes the city ridiculous, than him who holds his


Cratylus
    Part
  2 Intro|             names to be reckless and ridiculous. Having explained compound
  3 Intro| indistinguishable from them; and how ridiculous would this be! Cratylus
  4 Intro|             his picture. It would be ridiculous for him to alter any received
  5 Text |               SOCRATES: Well, rather ridiculous, and yet plausible.~HERMOGENES:
  6 Text |          find expression, may appear ridiculous, Hermogenes, but it cannot
  7 Text |             names are truly wild and ridiculous, though I have no objection
  8 Text |               SOCRATES: But then how ridiculous would be the effect of names


Crito
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  9 Text |         advice; do not make yourself ridiculous by escaping out of the city.~‘


Euthydemus
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 10 Text |             in a very inartistic and ridiculous manner, do not laugh at
 11 Text |        perhaps, this is one of those ridiculous questions which I am afraid
 12 Text |              that there is something ridiculous in again putting forward
 13 Text |              And though I may appear ridiculous in venturing to advise you,
 14 Text |      themselves are utterly mean and ridiculous.’ Now censure of the pursuit,
 15 Text |              these arts the many are ridiculous performers?~CRITO: Yes,


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 16 Text |             but private persons. How ridiculous would you be thought if


Gorgias
    Part
 17 Intro|             other view without being ridiculous. The profession of ignorance
 18 Intro|              world. Philosophers are ridiculous when they take to politics,
 19 Intro|              politicians are equally ridiculous when they take to philosophy: ‘
 20 Intro|             deny my words and not be ridiculous. To do wrong is the greatest
 21 Intro|         other doctrine without being ridiculous.~There is a further paradox
 22 Text |         politics or business, are as ridiculous as I imagine the politicians
 23 Text |             years, the thing becomes ridiculous, and I feel towards philosophers
 24 Text |              behaviour appears to me ridiculous and unmanly and worthy of
 25 Text |              you can, and not appear ridiculous. This is my position still,
 26 Text |           want will make a man truly ridiculous? Must not the defence be
 27 Text |          other arts of salvation, is ridiculous. O my friend! I want you
 28 Text |            then, surely, it would be ridiculous in us to attempt public
 29 Text |           all that. You and I have a ridiculous way, for during the whole


Laches
    Part
 30 Intro|           pretenders are useless and ridiculous. This man Stesilaus has
 31 Text |            hands, and laughed at his ridiculous figure; and when some one
 32 Text |         valour, he cannot help being ridiculous, if he says that he has


Laws
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 33 2    |               and so make themselves ridiculous in the eyes of those who,
 34 2    |               Athenian. The many are ridiculous in imagining that they know
 35 6    |           laws—not only will they be ridiculous and useless, but the greatest
 36 6    |           not of earth; besides, how ridiculous of us to be sending out
 37 6    |              one avoid being utterly ridiculous, who attempts to compel
 38 7    |             follows? Shall we make a ridiculous law that the pregnant woman
 39 7    |            afraid of appearing to be ridiculous, I would say that a woman
 40 7    |           prayer would surely be too ridiculous.~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
 41 7    |             or say anything which is ridiculous and out of place—he should
 42 7    |          manner, nothing can be more ridiculous than such an application
 43 8    |           another may appear to some ridiculous, abstain from commanding
 44 9    |         Cleinias. There is something ridiculous, Stranger, in our proposing
 45 9    |             they disagree, be deemed ridiculous? We should consider whether
 46 10   |           and it would be paltry and ridiculous to prefer the shorter to
 47 11   |            if I may venture to say a ridiculous thing, the best men everywhere
 48 11   |             take to saying something ridiculous about their opponent, and
 49 11   |            so fond of making mankind ridiculous, if they attempt in a good–
 50 12   |       quality to our laws; for it is ridiculous, after a great deal of labour


Lysis
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 51 Text |              only too well; and very ridiculous the tale is: for although
 52 Text |             not say. Now is not that ridiculous? He can only speak of the
 53 Text |              I heard this, I said: O ridiculous Hippothales! how can you
 54 Text |           have praised him, the more ridiculous you will look at having
 55 Text |            be then or will not be is ridiculous, for who knows? This we
 56 Text |             Menexenus and Lysis, how ridiculous that you two boys, and I,


Parmenides
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 57 Text |            and seek to show the many ridiculous and contradictory results
 58 Text |             appears to be still more ridiculous than the hypothesis of the


Phaedo
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 59 Text |              first, there would be a ridiculous contradiction in men studying
 60 Text |              later; I should only be ridiculous in my own eyes for sparing


Phaedrus
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 61 Text |             of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell
 62 Text |               my sweet Phaedrus, how ridiculous it would be of me to compete
 63 Text |              PHAEDRUS: That would be ridiculous.~SOCRATES: There is something
 64 Text |              There is something more ridiculous coming:—Suppose, further,
 65 Text |             anything.’~PHAEDRUS: How ridiculous!~SOCRATES: Ridiculous! Yes;
 66 Text |            How ridiculous!~SOCRATES: Ridiculous! Yes; but is not even a
 67 Text |               Yes; but is not even a ridiculous friend better than a cunning
 68 Text |             art of rhetoric which is ridiculous and is not an art at all?~


Philebus
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 69 Intro|           partial explanation of the ridiculous.) Having shown how sorrow,
 70 Text |               there may be something ridiculous in my being unable to answer,
 71 Text |         methinks would be still more ridiculous. Let us consider, then,
 72 Text |            to know the nature of the ridiculous.~PROTARCHUS: Explain.~SOCRATES:
 73 Text |               Explain.~SOCRATES: The ridiculous is in short the specific
 74 Text |              at, may be truly called ridiculous, but those who can defend
 75 Text |           reckoned, and in truth is, ridiculous.~PROTARCHUS: That is very
 76 Text |           wisdom, and of wealth, are ridiculous if they are weak, and detestable
 77 Text |       harmless to others, are simply ridiculous?~PROTARCHUS: They are ridiculous.~
 78 Text |     ridiculous?~PROTARCHUS: They are ridiculous.~SOCRATES: And do we not
 79 Text |             superhuman, Socrates, is ridiculous in man.~SOCRATES: What do
 80 Text |           greatest of pleasures, the ridiculous or disgraceful nature of


Protagoras
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 81 Text |             them,’ for that would be ridiculous; but he means to say that
 82 Text |           pleasure. And that this is ridiculous will be evident if only
 83 Text |        swaggering sort, ‘That is too ridiculous, that a man should do what


The Republic
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 84 2    |            invention? ~That would be ridiculous, he said. ~Then the lying
 85 3    |              I fear that I must be a ridiculous teacher when I have so much
 86 3    |      guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed. ~But next, what
 87 4    |           they have a washed-out and ridiculous appearance. ~Then now, I
 88 4    |            said. ~There is something ridiculous in the expression "master
 89 4    |           her; nothing could be more ridiculous. Like people who go about
 90 4    |       passion or spirit; it would be ridiculous to imagine that this quality,
 91 4    |              question has now become ridiculous. We know that, when the
 92 4    |             question is, as you say, ridiculous. Still, as we are near the
 93 5    |            being unusual, may appear ridiculous. ~No doubt of it. ~Yes,
 94 5    |            of it. ~Yes, and the most ridiculous thing of all will be the
 95 5    |            proposal would be thought ridiculous. ~But then, I said, as we
 96 5    |             sight of a naked man was ridiculous and improper; and when first
 97 5    |           has been cobbling? ~What a ridiculous question! ~You have answered
 98 5    |          other; for what can be more ridiculous than for them to utter the
 99 5    |      guardians will be? ~The idea is ridiculous, he said. ~There is also
100 6    |            and utmost clearness, how ridiculous that we should not think
101 6    |          knowledge of the good? ~How ridiculous! ~Yes, I said, that they
102 6    |             good" -this is of course ridiculous. ~Most true, he said. ~And
103 7    |       considerable), would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that
104 7    |             misbehaving himself in a ridiculous manner; if, while his eyes
105 7    |            speaking, in a narrow and ridiculous manner, of squaring and
106 7    |       replied, such an idea would be ridiculous. ~And will not a true astronomer
107 7    |            into earnest I am equally ridiculous. ~In what respect? ~I had
108 10   |            the same hold also of the ridiculous? There are jests which you


The Second Alcibiades
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109 Pre  |     difficult to understand, and the ridiculous interpretation of Homer,


The Sophist
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110 Intro|          terms. The fallacy to us is ridiculous and transparent,—no better
111 Intro|            share the same fate. Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which
112 Text |          which is certainly not less ridiculous, but being a trade in learning
113 Text |              names which are thought ridiculous.~THEAETETUS: Very true.~
114 Text |          doubt that they are thought ridiculous, Theaetetus; but then the
115 Text |              of them not a whit more ridiculous than another; nor does she
116 Text |               can avoid falling into ridiculous contradictions.~THEAETETUS:
117 Text |         nothing but unity, is surely ridiculous?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
118 Text |     THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER: Most ridiculous of all will the men themselves


The Statesman
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119 Intro|   continuance of such regulations be ridiculous? And if the legislator,
120 Text |            And there is a still more ridiculous consequence, that the king
121 Text |           such enactments be utterly ridiculous?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Utterly.~
122 Text |   prohibition be in reality quite as ridiculous as the other?~YOUNG SOCRATES:


The Symposium
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123 Intro|              spoken of; but it has a ridiculous element (Plato’s Symp.),
124 Text |        though I will not make myself ridiculous by entering into any rivalry
125 Text |            of a mother—that would be ridiculous; but to answer as you would,
126 Text |         Silenus which open; they are ridiculous when you first hear them;


Theaetetus
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127 Intro|              have often observed how ridiculous this habit of theirs makes
128 Intro|            and this also gives him a ridiculous appearance. A king or tyrant
129 Intro|          thick, and he makes himself ridiculous, not to servant-maids, but
130 Intro|       neither, then we shall be in a ridiculous position, having to set
131 Text |              would not the answer be ridiculous?~THEAETETUS: Truly.~SOCRATES:
132 Text |            of some art or science is ridiculous; for the question is, ‘What
133 Text |              general, and not appear ridiculous? (Compare Cratylus.)~THEAETETUS:
134 Text |     ourselves to be driven into most ridiculous and wonderful contradictions,
135 Text |           That would be in many ways ridiculous.~SOCRATES: But can you certainly
136 Text |           this? I say nothing of the ridiculous predicament in which my
137 Text |             to say, we shall be in a ridiculous position, having so great
138 Text |              a syllable, it would be ridiculous in me to give up letters
139 Text |       another thing, the proposal is ridiculous.~THEAETETUS: How so?~SOCRATES: