Cratylus
    Part
  1 Text |         liberated from the desires and evils of the body. Now there is


Euthydemus
    Part
  2 Text |            ignorance, they are greater evils than their opposites, inasmuch


Euthyphro
    Part
  3 Text |              and disease, and the like evils, but I do not perceive that


The First Alcibiades
    Part
  4 Text |              cowardice is the worst of evils?~ALCIBIADES: I do.~SOCRATES:


Gorgias
    Part
  5 Intro|              improved. There are three evils from which a man may suffer,
  6 Intro|            three arts which heal these evils—trading, medicine, justice—
  7 Intro|               wrong is the greatest of evils, and to suffer wrong is
  8 Intro|                way the greatest of all evils will befall him. ‘But this
  9 Intro|               offences is the worst of evils. In proof of which I will
 10 Intro|              not a small part of human evils which kings and governments
 11 Intro|            indirectly implies that the evils of this life will be corrected
 12 Text |             goods, and their opposites evils?~POLUS: I should.~SOCRATES:
 13 Text |           injustice is the greatest of evils.~POLUS: But is it the greatest?
 14 Text |                Whether the greatest of evils to a guilty man is to suffer
 15 Text |                out three corresponding evils—injustice, disease, poverty?~
 16 Text |             SOCRATES: And which of the evils is the most disgraceful?—
 17 Text |             evil of the soul is of all evils the most disgraceful; and
 18 Text |                will be the greatest of evils?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then
 19 Text |              soul, are the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is evident.~
 20 Text |                in being delivered from evils, but in never having had
 21 Text |       deliverance from the greatest of evils, which is vice?~POLUS: True.~
 22 Text |            shown to be the greatest of evils.~POLUS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
 23 Text |          released from the greatest of evils; they provide themselves
 24 Text |          injustice, is the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is quite clear.~
 25 Text |            second only in the scale of evils; but to do wrong and not
 26 Text |                is not the worst of all evils; or, if you leave her word
 27 Text |         pleasures were goods and pains evils?~CALLICLES: Yes, I remember.~
 28 Text |           injustice is the greatest of evils to the doer of injustice,
 29 Text |          greater than this greatest of evils (compare Republic), in an
 30 Text |            avert the greatest of human evils? And will not the worst
 31 Text |         greatest evil; and so of other evils. As is the greatness of
 32 Text |               that there are these two evils, the doing injustice and
 33 Text |              the last and worst of all evils. And in proof of what I


Laches
    Part
 34 Text |               as I should say, are the evils which are future; and the
 35 Text |                future goods and future evils?~NICIAS: True.~SOCRATES:


Laws
    Book
 36 1    |         engendered in them innumerable evils; and many a victory has
 37 2    | misapprehension on your part. For when evils are far gone and irremediable,
 38 2    |                health, the greatest of evils. For in truth, to have sight,
 39 2    |            fortune, is the greatest of evils, if life be immortal; but
 40 2    |             For I plainly declare that evils as they are termed are goods
 41 2    |                to the unjust, and only evils to the just, and that goods
 42 2    |              and none of the so–called evils which counter–balance these
 43 3    |              leading a life of endless evils. But why have I said all
 44 4    |             ruler, have no escape from evils and toils. Still we must
 45 5    |                 and the many and great evils which befell him in consequence,
 46 5    |                possess the greatest of evils, and least of all in the
 47 5    |               continue the greatest of evils. The unrighteous and vicious
 48 5    |          gentle and passionate.~Of all evils the greatest is one which
 49 5    |               lessen, and that present evils he will change for the better;
 50 5    |              are the opposite of these evils, he will not doubt that
 51 5    |               productive of both these evils. Now the legislator should
 52 7    |            exercise the source endless evils in the body?~Cleinias. Yes.~
 53 7    |             now called the greatest of evils to states. Changes in bodily
 54 7    |           fashions are no such serious evils, but frequent changes in
 55 7    |            manners are the greatest of evils, and require the utmost
 56 8    |             chief causes of almost all evils, and of the evils of which
 57 8    |           almost all evils, and of the evils of which I have been speaking
 58 8    |                 from which innumerable evils have come upon individuals
 59 9    |          temples of the Gods who avert evils, go to the society of those
 60 9    |               him will be the least of evils; and his example will benefit
 61 9    |            soul will at last fill with evils both him and the whole city.
 62 10   |            source of all the aforesaid evils. The greatest of them are
 63 10   |              of many goods and also of evils, and of more evils than
 64 10   |             also of evils, and of more evils than goods, there is, as
 65 11   |            sort of practices, and foul evils they are, which cast a reproach
 66 11   |               be devising a remedy for evils of this nature. There is
 67 11   |             but to most of them attach evils which are fated to corrupt


Lysis
    Part
 68 Intro|         friends, like many other human evils, is commonly due to a want


Meno
    Part
 69 Text |               mean that they think the evils which they desire, to be
 70 Text |                 Meno, that a man knows evils to be evils and desires
 71 Text |                a man knows evils to be evils and desires them notwithstanding?~
 72 Text |             And does he think that the evils will do good to him who
 73 Text |                some who think that the evils will do them good, and others
 74 Text |                good know that they are evils?~MENO: Certainly not.~SOCRATES:
 75 Text |               although they are really evils; and if they are mistaken
 76 Text |               mistaken and suppose the evils to be goods they really
 77 Text |                who, as you say, desire evils, and think that evils are
 78 Text |           desire evils, and think that evils are hurtful to the possessor


Phaedo
    Part
 79 Intro|                light of truth. All the evils and impurities and necessities
 80 Text |              soul is infected with the evils of the body, our desire
 81 Text |              are afraid of yet greater evils?~That is quite true.~Then
 82 Text |              or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her?
 83 Text |              obtained release from the evils of which you are speaking,
 84 Text |              greatest and worst of all evils, and one of which he never


Phaedrus
    Part
 85 Intro|                nature. And full of the evils which he recognized as flowing
 86 Intro|            Socrates might describe the evils of married and domestic
 87 Intro|                domestic life. They are evils which mankind in general
 88 Text |            being well rid of all these evils, why should he not freely
 89 Text |               we had any experience of evils to come, when we were admitted


Protagoras
    Part
 90 Intro|                pleasure. Pleasures are evils because they end in pain,
 91 Text |             and poverty and other like evils in the future? Would they
 92 Text |         compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the


The Republic
    Book
 93 1    |             tell you sadly of how many evils their old age is the cause.
 94 1    |                hand the reformation of evils which are not his concern,
 95 2    |                himself the greatest of evils. I dare say that Thrasymachus
 96 2    |               causes of almost all the evils in States, private as well
 97 2    |           human life, and many are the evils, and the good is to be attributed
 98 2    |        attributed to God alone; of the evils the causes are to be sought
 99 4    |            then, is a discovery of new evils, I said, against which the
100 4    |             the city unobserved. ~What evils? ~Wealth, I said, and poverty;
101 5    |                slaves to keep-the many evils of so many kinds which people
102 5    |              that. ~And from all these evils they will be delivered,
103 8    |            government which teems with evils: thirdly, democracy, which
104 8    |              the form and such are the evils of oligarchy; and there
105 8    |                there may be many other evils. ~Very likely. ~Then oligarchy,
106 8    |        scandalous moneymaking, and the evils of which we were speaking
107 8    |             And these are not the only evils, I said-there are several
108 9    |          bribes. ~A small catalogue of evils, even if the perpetrators
109 9    |      Reflecting upon these and similar evils, you held the tyrannical
110 9    |              And when you see the same evils in the tyrannical man, what
111 9    |               true, he said. ~And amid evils such as these will not he
112 10   |               infected by any of these evils is made evil, and at last
113 10   |                said, there are all the evils which we were just now passing
114 10   |              he was fated, among other evils, to devour his own children.


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
115 Text |            knowing it he implore great evils for himself, deeming that
116 Text |             done, beg that his present evils might be averted, but called
117 Text |              did not many and terrible evils thence arise, upon which
118 Text |           worse, pray for the greatest evils. No man would imagine that
119 Text |            what was best: to call down evils seems more like a curse
120 Text |            they could find against the evils which troubled them, the
121 Text |              make you partake of other evils as well. The wisest plan,


The Seventh Letter
    Part
122 Text |                will be no cessation of evils for the sons of men, till
123 Text |                the seed from which all evils for all mankind take root
124 Text |                their own heads all the evils which have since taken place.


The Sophist
    Part
125 Intro|           religion to console us under evils which are irremediable,


The Statesman
    Part
126 Intro|              or defect, which are real evils. This we must endeavour
127 Intro|              have endured the worst of evils time out of mind; many cities
128 Intro|              and may easily cause more evils than it cures. Plato is
129 Text |               unrealities, but as real evils, which occasion a difficulty


The Symposium
    Part
130 Intro|                It may be observed that evils which admit of degrees can


Theaetetus
    Part
131 Text |                man is he who makes the evils which appear and are to
132 Text |                be more peace and fewer evils among men.~SOCRATES: Evils,
133 Text |             evils among men.~SOCRATES: Evils, Theodorus, can never pass


Timaeus
    Part
134 Intro|          produce convulsions and other evils. The violence of controversy,
135 Intro|             him all but self-inflicted evils—words which imply that all
136 Intro|               which imply that all the evils of men are really self-inflicted.
137 Text |             him all but self-inflicted evils.~When the creator had made
138 Text |           given in youth to cure these evils, then all of us who are