Charmides
    Part
  1 Intro|     Temperance is doing one’s own business.’ But the artisan who makes
  2 Intro|           he is not doing his own business; and temperance defined
  3 Intro|     Temperance is doing one’s own business;—(4) is doing good.~Still
  4 Intro|    temperance is ‘doing one’s own business,’ which in the Republic (
  5 Intro|     Temperance is doing one’s own business,’ is assumed to have been
  6 Intro|            modesty, doing our own business, the doing of good actions,
  7 Text |       temperance is doing our own business.’ Was he right who affirmed
  8 Text |       doing what was not your own business?~But they are the same as
  9 Text |       will not be doing one’s own business; not at least in this way,
 10 Text | temperance is a man doing his own business had another and a hidden
 11 Text |          the words ‘doing his own business.’~I dare say, he replied.~
 12 Text |    meaning of a man doing his own business? Can you tell me?~Indeed,
 13 Text |         they make or do their own business only, or that of others
 14 Text |           themselves or their own business only?~Why not? he said.~
 15 Text |      temperance, ‘doing one’s own business,’ and then says that there
 16 Text |       reason why those who do the business of others should not be
 17 Text | acknowledge that those who do the business of others are temperate?
 18 Text |          things only man’s proper business, and what is hurtful, not
 19 Text |          what is hurtful, not his business: and in that sense Hesiod,
 20 Text |         knew, and have handed the business over to them and trusted


Cratylus
    Part
 21 Intro|        all that will be a serious business; still, as I have put on
 22 Intro|          words. For example, what business has the letter rho in the
 23 Intro|           the letter lambda; what business has this in a word meaning
 24 Text |        nature of the God, and the business of a name, as we were saying,
 25 Text |          saying, they may have no business; or they are the expression


Critias
    Part
 26 Text |          who made husbandry their business, and were lovers of honour,


Crito
    Part
 27 Text |          I reflect that the whole business will be attributed entirely


Euthydemus
    Part
 28 Intro|         already:—in every art and business are not the wise also the
 29 Text |          he would only make a bad business worse.~And now that you
 30 Text |          to do the dialectician’s business excellently well.~What,
 31 Text |       well.~What, said he, is the business of a good workman? tell
 32 Text |         in the first place, whose business is hammering?~The smith’
 33 Text |       said.~And if a man does his business he does rightly?~Certainly.~
 34 Text |       rightly?~Certainly.~And the business of the cook is to cut up
 35 Text |         the cook, he would do his business, and if he were to hammer
 36 Text |         potter, he would do their business.~Poseidon, I said, this
 37 Text |         at all interfere with the business of money-making.~CRITO:
 38 Text |        they say that he knows the business, and is a clever man, and


Euthyphro
    Part
 39 Intro|          Theaet.) Both have legal business in hand. Socrates is defendant
 40 Intro|         in short, a mode of doing business between gods and men. But
 41 Intro|        that piety is an affair of business, a science of giving and
 42 Text |        gods and men have of doing business with one another?~EUTHYPHRO:
 43 Text |         that must be an affair of business in which we have very greatly


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 44 Intro|      replies—‘Good in transacting business.’ But what business? ‘The
 45 Intro|   transacting business.’ But what business? ‘The business of the most
 46 Intro|           But what business? ‘The business of the most intelligent
 47 Intro|           tradesman knows his own business, but they do not necessarily
 48 Text |          know, they entrust their business to others?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~
 49 Text |       SOCRATES: That would be the business of the teacher of the chorus?~
 50 Text |        self, appear all to be the business of the same man, and of


Gorgias
    Part
 51 Intro|           and pass on to the real business of life. A little philosophy
 52 Intro|         is the statesman’s proper business. And we must ask the same
 53 Intro|        habit of reflection is the business of early education, which
 54 Text |          friend, and what is your business? ‘I am a trainer,’ he will
 55 Text |            he will reply, ‘and my business is to make men beautiful
 56 Text |          having this and no other business, and that this is her crown
 57 Text |     forbid that I should have any business on hand which would take
 58 Text |          teach him—it is not your business; but you will make him seem
 59 Text |          on a voyage or engage in business, they do not will that which
 60 Text |          voyage or the trouble of business?—But they will, to have
 61 Text |         themselves to politics or business, are as ridiculous as I
 62 Text |           Learn the philosophy of business, and acquire the reputation
 63 Text |       must make the best of a bad business, as they said of old, and
 64 Text |          to set about some public business, and were advising one another


Laches
    Part
 65 Text |            But this is our proper business; and yours as well as ours,


Laws
    Book
 66 1    |          reformation is the great business of every man while he lives.~
 67 5    |     decide which are which is the business of the legislator; and he,
 68 5    |            or he has made them in business, or has acquired by any
 69 6    |        good beginning is half the business”; and “to have begun well”
 70 6    |           deal more than half the business, and has never been praised
 71 6    |           down; this shall be the business of the first day. And on
 72 6    |         for a single month. Their business is to be at hand and receive
 73 6    |          engaged in their regular business. They shall make every part
 74 6    |          each—of the one kind the business will be education, of the
 75 6    |          expires, let those whose business it is elect another to the
 76 6    |           a man is engaged in the business of marriage; at such a crisis
 77 7    |     public and of their household business, as magistrates in the city,
 78 7    |          the chief concern in the business, the superintendent of youth [
 79 8    |         or those who come on some business which they have with the
 80 10   |          one who has some special business entrusted to him, if he
 81 11   |     instructors of those who have business in the agora. Enough has
 82 12   |          who comes on some public business from another land, and is
 83 12   |         at leisure from all other business, whether public or private—


Lysis
    Part
 84 Intro|     health, about marriage, about business,—the letter written from


Menexenus
    Part
 85 Text |        had fallen, and that their business was to subject the remaining


Meno
    Part
 86 Text |           and if I am wrong, your business is to take up the argument


Parmenides
    Part
 87 Text |       Parmenides, is a tremendous business of which you speak, and


Phaedo
    Part
 88 Text |        Socrates, let him mind his business and be prepared to give


Phaedrus
    Part
 89 Text |        words of Pindar, ‘than any business’?~PHAEDRUS: Will you go


Philebus
    Part
 90 Text |            that will be a tedious business, and just at present not


Protagoras
    Part
 91 Intro|          are those who know their business or profession: those who
 92 Text |          Seeing this, I minded my business, and gently said:—~When


The Republic
    Book
 93 1    |       arts may be doing their own business and benefiting that over
 94 1    |       refute the argument is your business. ~Very true, I said; that
 95 2    |       right time? ~No doubt. ~For business is not disposed to wait
 96 2    |        wait until the doer of the business is at leisure; but the doer
 97 2    |         he is doing, and make the business his first object. ~He must. ~
 98 2    |       make the tales is not their business. ~Very true, he said; but
 99 3    |       private individuals have no business with them. ~Clearly not,
100 3    |         setting aside every other business, are to dedicate themselves
101 3    |       well and lives and does his business, or, if his constitution
102 3    |        the ordinary way he had no business to cure him; for such a
103 4    |        every man would do his own business, and be one and not many;
104 4    |     replied. ~Well, and about the business of the agora, and the ordinary
105 4    |       Justice was doing one's own business, and not being a busybody;
106 4    |         so. ~Then to do one's own business in a certain way may be
107 4    |         carpenter to be doing the business of a cobbler, or a cobbler
108 4    |        guardian each do their own business, that is justice, and will
109 4    |           severally did their own business; and also thought to be
110 4    |           of him is doing its own business, whether in ruling or being
111 4    |          to be doing each his own business, and not another's, was
112 4    |     affair of politics or private business; always thinking and calling
113 5    |         hereafter to be their own business; and if there is danger
114 6    |           them to be their proper business: at last, when they grow
115 6    |           omitted the troublesome business of the possession of women,
116 7    |       replied. ~Then, I said, the business of us who are the founders
117 8    |            those who do their own business in the city are called simpletons,
118 8    |        the other hand, the men of business, stooping as they walk,
119 8    |           direction, or of men of business, once more in that. His
120 9    |         do each of them their own business, and enjoy severally the


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
121 Text |       whether they understand the business in hand, or only think that


The Seventh Letter
    Part
122 Text |         many others make it their business to harp upon it, and will
123 Text |            and will make it their business in the future. But I do


The Sophist
    Part
124 Intro|     philosophy, if made a serious business (compare Republic), involves
125 Text |       must.~STRANGER: And now our business is not to let the animal
126 Text |      makes other the same, is the business of the dialectical science?~


The Statesman
    Part
127 Intro|       Law-making certainly is the business of a king; and yet the best
128 Text |          To find the path is your business, Stranger, and not mine.~
129 Text |         skill in various sorts of business connected with the government
130 Text |    legislation is in a manner the business of a king, and yet the best
131 Text |           quietly doing their own business; this is their manner of


The Symposium
    Part
132 Intro|           and go their way to the business of life. Now the characters
133 Intro|         of the Comic poets (whose business was to raise a laugh by
134 Text |         and have made it my daily business to know all that he says
135 Text |           the dead. Wherefore the business of divination is to see
136 Text |          and go their ways to the business of life: so ancient is the


Theaetetus
    Part
137 Text |            Bear in mind the whole business of the midwives, and then


Timaeus
    Part
138 Text |      other poets, made poetry the business of his life, and had completed