The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |       although a thing of which it is hard for me to persuade you.


Charmides
    Part
  2 Text |          repeating them; so he looked hard at him and said—~Do you


Cratylus
    Part
  3 Intro|                Socrates replies, that hard is knowledge, and the nature
  4 Intro|             excellent meaning, though hard to be understood, because
  5 Intro|               nature be the truer, is hard to determine. But no man
  6 Text |              an ancient saying, that ‘hard is the knowledge of the
  7 Text |           excellent meaning, although hard to be understood, because
  8 Text |               if you please, from his hard and unchangeable nature,
  9 Text |               us; when I say skleros (hard), you know what I mean.~
 10 Text |             others say, is a question hard to determine; and no man


Critias
    Part
 11 Text |               and the fruits having a hard rind, affording drinks and


Euthydemus
    Part
 12 Text |               but you must not be too hard upon me.~Then if some one


Gorgias
    Part
 13 Intro|              And sometimes we are too hard upon ourselves, because
 14 Text |               of speech—that would be hard indeed. But then consider
 15 Text |            are unjust.~POLUS: You are hard of refutation, Socrates,
 16 Text |           live and to die justly is a hard thing, and greatly to be


Laws
    Book
 17 1    |            there are others which are hard and of iron, but this one
 18 2    |              a thing of which men are hard to be persuaded.~Athenian.
 19 4    |            time when the Achaeans are hard pressed by the Trojans—he
 20 4    |               violence of war and the hard necessity of poverty are
 21 7    |        employed in spinning wool, are hard at work weaving the web
 22 9    |               horn, having a heart so hard that it cannot be softened
 23 9    |              or a part of her, and is hard to be striven against and
 24 10   |             laws, that before you are hard upon us and threaten us,
 25 10   |           with moist, or of soft with hard, and according to all the
 26 10   |            when spoken to a multitude hard to be understood, not to
 27 10   |             be prior to that which is hard and soft and heavy and light;
 28 11   |         friends, we will say to them, hard is it for you, who are creatures
 29 11   |            day, to know what is yours—hard too, as the Delphic oracle
 30 12   |               and summer heat, and of hard couches; and, above all,


Meno
    Part
 31 Intro|        philosophy passes away; or how hard it is for one age to understand


Parmenides
    Part
 32 Intro|               and the learner will be hard of understanding.’ But an
 33 Intro|               to all Ideas. Yet it is hard to suppose that Plato would


Phaedo
    Part
 34 Intro|             we venture to divide by a hard and fast line; and in which
 35 Text |           have the same feeling), how hard or rather impossible is
 36 Text |           bones, as he would say, are hard and have joints which divide
 37 Text |             not have him sorrow at my hard lot, or say at the burial,
 38 Text |             while he pressed his foot hard, and asked him if he could


Phaedrus
    Part
 39 Intro|         rhetoric, however prolific in hard names. When Plato has sufficiently
 40 Text |              eikonologies and all the hard names which we have been


Philebus
    Part
 41 Text |              rather than at the least hard? You, Protarchus, shall


Protagoras
    Part
 42 Intro|  contradiction. First the poet says,~‘Hard is it to become good,’~and
 43 Intro|            Pittacus for having said, ‘Hard is it to be good.’ How is
 44 Intro|            Then the word difficult or hard is explained to mean ‘evil’
 45 Intro|               Pittacus had a saying, ‘Hard is it to be good:’ and Simonides,
 46 Intro|               says he, Pittacus; not ‘hard to be good,’ but ‘hard to
 47 Intro|                hard to be good,’ but ‘hard to become good.’ Socrates
 48 Text |               with hoofs and hair and hard and callous skins under
 49 Text |           certain way like black, and hard is like soft, and the most
 50 Text |              not understand the word ‘hard’ (chalepon) in the sense
 51 Text |            Ceans, when they spoke of ‘hard’ meant ‘evil,’ or something
 52 Text |                Prodicus, by the term ‘hard’?~Evil, said Prodicus.~And
 53 Text |          blames Pittacus for saying, ‘Hard is the good,’ just as if
 54 Text |          Simonides in using the word ‘hard’ meant what all of us mean,
 55 Text |             approbation of the wise, ‘Hard is it to be good.’ And Simonides,
 56 Text |           only that to become good is hard, he inserted (Greek) ‘on
 57 Text |            one hand to become good is hard’); there would be no reason
 58 Text |         Pittacus. Pittacus is saying ‘Hard is it to be good,’ and he,
 59 Text |                rejoins that the truly hard thing, Pittacus, is to become
 60 Text |                with ‘good,’ but with ‘hard.’ Not, that the hard thing
 61 Text |            with ‘hard.’ Not, that the hard thing is to be truly good,
 62 Text |             friends,’ says Pittacus, ‘hard is it to be good,’ and Simonides
 63 Text |                without a flaw—that is hard truly.’ This way of reading
 64 Text |                Pittacus, are saying, ‘Hard is it to be good.’ Now there


The Republic
    Book
 65 1    |               with a quiver, don't be hard upon us. Polemarchus and
 66 3    |           usual regimen, and so dying hard, by the help of science
 67 3    |      intensified, is liable to become hard and brutal. ~That I quite
 68 4    |                the proverb holds that hard is the good. ~Very true,
 69 5    |             your audience will not be hard upon you; they are not sceptical
 70 5    |         private or public is indeed a hard thing. ~Socrates, what do
 71 6    |              I say, ever be unjust or hard in his dealings? ~Impossible. ~
 72 6    |              are attended with risk; "hard is the good," as men say. ~
 73 7    |              thing is felt to be both hard and soft? ~You are quite
 74 7    |            which the sense gives of a hard which is also soft? What,
 75 7    |              he replied, which may be hard to believe, yet, from another
 76 8    |               and miserly savings and hard work gets a fortune together.


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 77 Text |            themselves, which had been hard hit by the barbarians but


The Sophist
    Part
 78 Intro|               Like the Sophist, he is hard to recognize, though for
 79 Text |               that they are almost as hard to be discerned as the gods.
 80 Text |           Sophists is troublesome and hard to be caught, I should recommend
 81 Text |              the truth in all this is hard to determine; besides, antiquity
 82 Text |            all?~THEAETETUS: That is a hard alternative to offer.~STRANGER:


The Statesman
    Part
 83 Intro|            regime, he finds the world hard to move. A succession of


The Symposium
    Part
 84 Text |           should, by all means, avoid hard drinking, for I was myself
 85 Text |              Is Agathon able to drink hard?~I am not equal to it, said
 86 Text |             am aware, may seem rather hard upon us whose place is last;
 87 Text |           that she walks not upon the hard but upon the soft. Let us
 88 Text |          flexile form; for if he were hard and without flexure he could


Theaetetus
    Part
 89 Intro|           idea of knowledge, although hard to be defined, is realised
 90 Intro|        example; we know a thing to be hard or soft by the touch, of
 91 Intro|              when the wax is muddy or hard or moist, there is a corresponding
 92 Intro| indistinctness, and still more in the hard, for there the impressions
 93 Intro|     enlightened mental science. It is hard to say how many fallacies
 94 Intro|            support one another; it is hard to say how much our impressions
 95 Text |               Socrates, they are very hard and impenetrable mortals.~
 96 Text |              of all sensible objects, hard, warm, and the like, which
 97 Text |             running my old friend too hard.~SOCRATES: But I do not
 98 Text |            black from being white, or hard from being soft, or undergoes
 99 Text |           which you perceive warm and hard and light and sweet, organs
100 Text |             hardness of that which is hard by the touch, and the softness
101 Text |            wax, or very soft, or very hard, then there is a corresponding
102 Text |            but apt to forget; and the hard are the reverse; the shaggy
103 Text |               indistinct, as also the hard, for there is no depth in
104 Text |             prefer?~THEAETETUS: It is hard to determine, Socrates.~


Timaeus
    Part
105 Intro|             causes shivering. That is hard to which the flesh yields,
106 Intro|            foolish counsellors; anger hard to be appeased; hope easily
107 Intro|            part of the flesh which is hard to decompose blackens from
108 Text |              man’s education he finds hard to carry out in action,
109 Text |              moved without a mover is hard or indeed impossible, and
110 Text |             is so dense as to be very hard, and takes a black colour,
111 Text |           termed cold. That is called hard to which our flesh yields,
112 Text |            and things are also termed hard and soft relatively to one
113 Text |            which is easy and which is hard to move; for this is the
114 Text |            foolish counsellors, anger hard to be appeased, and hope
115 Text |             up, takes the form of one hard skin partaking of all three
116 Text |             which is corrupted, being hard to decompose, from long
117 Text |             those who are awake it is hard to be got rid of, and being