The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |         this class of men are most difficult to deal with; for I cannot


Charmides
    Part
  2 PreS |         which are found to be most difficult and to diverge most widely
  3 PreS |       clear and consecutive.~It is difficult to harmonize all these conflicting


Cratylus
    Part
  4 Intro|            Hestia? ‘That is a very difficult question.’ O, my dear Hermogenes,
  5 Intro|           episteme; sophia is very difficult, and has a foreign look—
  6 Intro|       Athene. The word zemiodes is difficult; great changes, as I was
  7 Intro|         proved by facts. It is not difficult to form an hypothesis which
  8 Text |            anthropoi?—that is more difficult.~HERMOGENES: No, I cannot;
  9 Text |       another and certainly a most difficult question.~SOCRATES: My dear
 10 Text |        actual word dikaion is more difficult: men are only agreed to


Critias
    Part
 11 Text |           because my theme is more difficult; and I shall argue that


Euthyphro
    Part
 12 Intro|            replies, that all these difficult questions cannot be resolved
 13 Text |            EUTHYPHRO: It will be a difficult task; but I could make the


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 14 Text |             Or is self-knowledge a difficult thing, which few are able
 15 Text |            task appears to be very difficult.~SOCRATES: But whether easy
 16 Text |      SOCRATES: But whether easy or difficult, Alcibiades, still there


Gorgias
    Part
 17 Intro|          the good of others. It is difficult to say how far in such cases


Laws
    Book
 18 1    |           than the other in a more difficult kind of war, much in the
 19 2    |            the mistake may be very difficult to discern, because the
 20 2    |           are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning
 21 4    |           say of horses, is a most difficult task, and the work of years.
 22 4    |          reached the top, although difficult before, it is then easy.~
 23 5    |        some easier and others more difficult; and some of them, and the
 24 5    |        them, and the best and most difficult of them, the legislator,
 25 7    | legislation, I must state the more difficult as well as the easier parts
 26 7    |    Cleinias, that is so. But it is difficult for the legislator to begin
 27 7    |          they are innocent and not difficult; the learning of them will
 28 7    |           whereas if they had been difficult I could certainly never
 29 8    |            attain the first is not difficult, but there is great difficulty,
 30 8    |        public festivals. It is not difficult to determine how these and
 31 8    |       respect, but in another most difficult. There is no difficulty
 32 8    |            of these things is very difficult.~Megillus. Very true.~Athenian.
 33 8    |            in most places would be difficult, but in Crete no one would
 34 8    |        task of the legislator less difficult—half as many laws will be
 35 9    |        mean?~Athenian. A thing not difficult to understand; the laws
 36 10   |            first hearing they seem difficult, there is no reason for
 37 11   |         against two opponents is a difficult thing,” as is seen in diseases
 38 11   |            as a freeman. Now it is difficult to determine accurately
 39 12   |         make the distinction maybe difficult; but still the law must


Lysis
    Part
 40 Intro|            a mere youth takes in a difficult argument. But Plato has
 41 Text |   vain-glorious they are, the more difficult is the capture of them?~
 42 Text |           which he is hunting more difficult?~He would be a bad hunter,
 43 Text |           Hermaea, which made them difficult to manage—we fairly gave


Menexenus
    Part
 44 Intro|        would have been a much more difficult task. Socrates himself has
 45 Intro|         the work makes the enquiry difficult; the introduction and the


Meno
    Part
 46 Text |           saying—not anything very difficult.~MENO: Yes, I should; and


Parmenides
    Part
 47 Intro|          above metaphysics, or how difficult it is to prevent the forms
 48 Text |   remarking just now, will be very difficult to convince; a man must


Phaedo
    Part
 49 Intro|    imaginary hypothesis. Nor is it difficult to see that his crowning


Phaedrus
    Part
 50 Intro|         psychological truth.~It is difficult to exhaust the meanings


Philebus
    Part
 51 Intro|           progress of the dialogue difficult to follow. A few leading
 52 Intro|       after-effects painful. It is difficult to acquit Plato, to use
 53 Text |           invite your attention is difficult and controverted. When you
 54 Text |            as you were saying, are difficult to follow at first. I think
 55 Text |            task which you impose a difficult one; but did I really, as


Protagoras
    Part
 56 Intro|          become: to become good is difficult; to be good is easy. Then
 57 Intro|        good is easy. Then the word difficult or hard is explained to
 58 Text |          to retain virtue, however difficult the acquisition, is easy (


The Republic
    Book
 59 1    |      smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. And this is a question
 60 2    | concealment of wickedness is often difficult; to which I answer, Nothing
 61 3    |            of the subject would be difficult, you know? ~Rather so, I
 62 4    |            he said; that is not so difficult. ~The regulations which
 63 6    |       discussion would be long and difficult; and what still remains
 64 6    |          enactment of them, though difficult, is not impossible. ~Very
 65 6    |         eyed with jealousy and was difficult of attainment; but that
 66 7    |        will not easily find a more difficult study, and not many as difficult. ~
 67 7    |   difficult study, and not many as difficult. ~You will not. ~And, for
 68 7    |      pursuit of them, and they are difficult; in the second place, students
 69 7    |           mere dream, and although difficult, not impossible, but only
 70 8    |           is the greatest and most difficult of all. ~This, then, will


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
 71 Pre  |         disposition, is uncommonly difficult to understand, and the ridiculous
 72 Text |       speak out.~ALCIBIADES: It is difficult, Socrates, to oppose what
 73 Text |            fallacious, it would be difficult for me to find another which


The Seventh Letter
    Part
 74 Text |         advanced in life, the more difficult it seemed to me to handle
 75 Text |       conclusion that the thing is difficult and impossible for them,


The Sophist
    Part
 76 Intro|            of one and Being.~It is difficult within the compass of a
 77 Intro|           that he is unnecessarily difficult, or that his own mind, like
 78 Intro| reflections of the past, and it is difficult to separate in them what
 79 Intro|           similar relations? It is difficult enough to conceive all the
 80 Intro|         nouns and verbs, require a difficult and elaborate explanation.
 81 Text |        small to them, and the easy difficult, and all their dreamy speculations
 82 Text |           we are engaged in a very difficult speculation— there can be
 83 Text |          Theaetetus, the task is a difficult one.~THEAETETUS: Why?~STRANGER:
 84 Text |    enquirer?~THEAETETUS: That is a difficult question, and one not to
 85 Text |        nature of being is quite as difficult to comprehend as that of
 86 Text |            which is noble and also difficult.~THEAETETUS: What is it?~


The Statesman
    Part
 87 Intro|            are translated into the difficult language of facts. Let us,
 88 Intro|         expressions, ‘the long and difficult language of facts;’ and ‘
 89 Text |            imposing upon me a very difficult task. We have already digressed
 90 Text |      transferred into the long and difficult language (syllables) of
 91 Text |           of all sciences and most difficult to acquire, be supposed
 92 Text |         akin to the king, and more difficult to discern; the examination
 93 Text |      accomplished, which, although difficult, appears to be necessary.~


The Symposium
    Part
 94 Intro|         household of slaves.~It is difficult to adduce the authority


Theaetetus
    Part
 95 Intro|            to both these questions difficult.~1. In reply to the first,
 96 Intro|           of thought, were equally difficult to them; and hopelessly
 97 Intro|        degenerate into formulas. A difficult philosophical problem is
 98 Intro|           between them. It is also difficult to distinguish outward facts


Timaeus
    Part
 99 Intro|       tetanus. The cure of them is difficult, and in most cases they
100 Intro|            world is created? It is difficult to explain a process of
101 Intro|     philosophy, which are still as difficult to our minds as they were
102 Intro|          thinkers; or perhaps more difficult, because we more distinctly
103 Intro|    precisely coincide, it would be difficult to imagine that Plato was
104 Intro|           and therefore it was not difficult for the later Platonists
105 Intro|     Timaeus is singular, and it is difficult to adjust the balance between
106 Intro|            s skill in managing the difficult and intractable Greek. In
107 Text |          this reason—because it is difficult to set forth my opinion
108 Text |           undertaking so great and difficult a task. Remembering what
109 Text |       words another kind, which is difficult of explanation and dimly
110 Text |          or some one of them, is a difficult matter. How, then, shall
111 Text |         make them unwieldy because difficult to move; and also that it
112 Text |          them. The cure of them is difficult; relief is in most cases