The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |            cause! The task is not an easy one; I quite understand


Charmides
   Part
 2 Intro|      confusion between them, and the easy transition from one to the
 3 Text |             yet, after finding us so easy and good-natured, the enquiry


Cratylus
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 4 Intro|     syllables and letters is not the easy task, Hermogenes, which
 5 Text |             questioners. All this is easy enough; the noble breed


Critias
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 6 Text |             things is the reverse of easy. This is what I want to
 7 Text |              the vessel, which is an easy way of guiding animals,


Crito
   Part
 8 Text |              I see anything like the easy, tranquil manner in which


Euthydemus
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 9 Intro|              these were problems not easy of solution in the infancy
10 Text |            Why, I said, they are not easy to answer; for they are
11 Text |            an art which they have so easy an opportunity of acquiring;


The First Alcibiades
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12 Text |            is self-knowledge such an easy thing, and was he to be
13 Text |     difficult.~SOCRATES: But whether easy or difficult, Alcibiades,


Gorgias
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14 Intro|           another form, admits of an easy application to ourselves.


Laws
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15 1    |             Megillus. That is not an easy question to answer; still
16 1    |            in general, the answer is easy—that education makes good
17 1    |           which would be wonderfully easy in comparison with those
18 4    |         difficult before, it is then easy.~Cleinias. Yes; and he certainly
19 5    |             suits about money may be easy and quite simple.~The next
20 6    |              in my mind the free and easy manner in which we are ordaining
21 6    |            and that admits of a very easy correction; for if, turning
22 6    |               is a matter not at all easy for us to determine. There
23 7    |       Athenian. The practice is more easy for us to understand than
24 7    |        thoughts?~Cleinias. It is not easy, Stranger, to put aside
25 7    |          matters minutely is neither easy, nor at all possible for
26 8    |            which, in one respect, is easy, but, in another, is of
27 8    |           such a law, which was very easy in one respect, but in another
28 10   |              this question it is not easy to give an intelligent answer;
29 10   |          make the care of all things easy to the Gods. If any one
30 10   |              world has a wonderfully easy task.~Cleinias. How so?~
31 11   |    legislation. To effect this is no easy matter, and requires a great
32 11   |              magician. Now it is not easy to know the nature of all
33 12   |          practice? It is by no means easy to find a magistrate who
34 12   |              by our knowledge, is no easy matter. The safest course
35 12   |           next place, it will not be easy for them to discover themselves


Lysis
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36 Text |              to my love?~That is not easy to determine, I said; but
37 Text |             put him down.~That is no easy matter, I replied; for he


Menexenus
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38 Intro|              among the Athenians was easy,—to praise them among the
39 Intro|             well-known words, ‘It is easy to praise the Athenians


Meno
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40 Text |              SOCRATES: It will be no easy matter, but I will try to


Parmenides
   Part
41 Intro|          mentioned?’ ‘That is not an easy question to answer.’ ‘I


Phaedo
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42 Intro|           truth of the matter. It is easy to see that the alternation
43 Text |               as I knew, would be no easy task. But I wanted to see


Phaedrus
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44 Intro|              or that. This is not an easy task, and this, if there
45 Text |        because these make him a less easy prey, and when caught less
46 Text |            this is they regard as an easy thing which their disciples
47 Text |       creation of such an art is not easy.~SOCRATES: Very true; and


Philebus
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48 Intro|             is a mere unit, is to us easy; but to the Greek in a particular
49 Intro|            once attained.~It is more easy to find traces of the Pythagoreans,
50 Intro|              will of God. This is an easy test to which the prejudices
51 Text |              out, but is by no means easy of application; it is the
52 Text |             at present not at all an easy one. For in going to war
53 Text |          SOCRATES: Yet the answer is easy, since all philosophers


Protagoras
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54 Intro|             difficult; to be good is easy. Then the word difficult
55 Text |        difficult the acquisition, is easy (Works and Days).’~Prodicus
56 Text |          evil, but that which is not easy—that which takes a great


The Republic
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57 1    |        whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult.
58 2    |            of vice and injustice are easy of attainment, and are only
59 2    |             answer, Nothing great is easy. Nevertheless, the argument
60 2    |             the selection will be no easy matter, I said; but we must
61 2    |             A difficulty by no means easy to overcome, he replied. ~
62 4    |             we have alighted upon an easy question-whether the soul
63 4    |         three principles or not? ~An easy question! Nay, rather, Socrates,
64 4    |             question is not quite so easy when we proceed to ask whether
65 5    |             answer is the reverse of easy; many more doubts arise
66 5    |          objections? ~That is not an easy question to answer when
67 5    |            be solved is anything but easy. Why, yes, I said, but the
68 5    |         answer on the instant is not easy; but after a little reflection
69 5    |             guardians to have a fine easy time of it when they are
70 5    |             which is not a slight or easy though still a possible
71 6    |            remains is the reverse of easy. ~What is there remaining? ~
72 6    |            clean surface. This is no easy task. But whether easy or
73 6    |            no easy task. But whether easy or not, herein will lie
74 7    |              any degree to make more easy the vision of the idea of
75 10   |             yourself? ~What way? ~An easy way enough; or rather, there
76 10   |        always nearly equable, is not easy to imitate or to appreciate


The Seventh Letter
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77 Text |          ready to my hand was not an easy matter, since public affairs


The Sophist
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78 Intro|        particular quality.~Nor is it easy to see how Not-being any
79 Intro|       necessary connexion. Nor is it easy to determine how far the
80 Text |              by no means a slight or easy task.~THEODORUS: You have
81 Text |       appears small to them, and the easy difficult, and all their
82 Text |             us in rather a light and easy strain.~THEAETETUS: How?~
83 Text |               This is clearly not an easy task; for among the ancients


The Statesman
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84 Intro|            was also a law. Nor is it easy for the Christian to think
85 Intro|             found this question more easy than we do. For he would
86 Text |         imagine, the answer would be easy. But until some satisfactory
87 Text |             enough in very short and easy syllables, and are able
88 Text |          class from others is not an easy one; for there is plausibility
89 Text |              be grasped by us is not easy or familiar; but we may
90 Text |            fancy that this is all so easy: Well, let us consider these


The Symposium
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91 Intro|             because it is not always easy to determine whether he
92 Text | singularities is not a task which is easy to a man in my condition.~


Theaetetus
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93 Intro|              first an effort is made easy by the natural instrumentality


Timaeus
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94 Intro|            in a few pages.~It is not easy to determine how Plato’s
95 Text |             Yes, and the proposal is easy to remember, as you say.~
96 Text |          between the nature which is easy and which is hard to move;
97 Text |            is still a prospect of an easy recovery; but when that