The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |           cities, and are able to persuade the young men to leave their
 2 Text |     thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that
 3 Text |        which it is hard for me to persuade you. Also, I have never


Charmides
   Part
 4 Text |            Let no one,’ he said, ‘persuade you to cure the head, until
 5 Text |          rich, or noble, or fair, persuade you to give him the cure,


Crito
   Part
 6 Text |     highly value your attempts to persuade me to do so, but I may not


Euthydemus
   Part
 7 Text |            Crito, I shall try and persuade some old men to accompany
 8 Text |         it? Has your art power to persuade him, who is of the latter
 9 Text |       exhibition, and only try to persuade the youth whom you see here
10 Text |            and, if I could, would persuade you not like a boor to say


The First Alcibiades
   Part
11 Intro|          them out? He is going to persuade the Athenians—about what?
12 Text |   ecclesia, too, you will have to persuade men individually.~ALCIBIADES:
13 Text |           the same person able to persuade one individual singly and
14 Text |      grammarian, for example, can persuade one and he can persuade
15 Text |           persuade one and he can persuade many about letters.~ALCIBIADES:
16 Text |          will not the same person persuade one and persuade many?~ALCIBIADES:
17 Text |           person persuade one and persuade many?~ALCIBIADES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
18 Text |          SOCRATES: And cannot you persuade one man about that of which
19 Text |       about that of which you can persuade many?~ALCIBIADES: I suppose
20 Text |         And that of which you can persuade either is clearly what you
21 Text |          is that the one seeks to persuade a number, and the other
22 Text |           the same person who can persuade a multitude can persuade
23 Text |          persuade a multitude can persuade individuals, try conclusions


Gorgias
   Part
24 Intro|        there are other arts which persuade, such as arithmetic, which
25 Intro|         will rhetoric teach us to persuade or advise the state?~Gorgias
26 Intro|           and influence. He could persuade the multitude of anything
27 Intro|          have deserved, they must persuade themselves to submit. Under
28 Text |          are able to speak and to persuade the multitude.~SOCRATES:
29 Text |           he who teaches anything persuade men of that which he teaches
30 Text |           SOCRATES: And therefore persuade us of them?~GORGIAS: Yes.~
31 Text |         subject,—in short, he can persuade the multitude better than
32 Text |      intemperate? Or do I fail to persuade you, and, however many tales


Ion
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33 Text |          have eloquence enough to persuade me that I praise Homer only


Laws
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34 2    |          the true legislator will persuade, and, if he cannot persuade,
35 2    |       persuade, and, if he cannot persuade, will compel the poet to
36 2    |         am not mistaken, you will persuade or compel your poets to
37 2    |        exhibit the truth; he will persuade the citizens, in some way
38 2    |       take as a proof that he can persuade the minds of the young of
39 4    |  arguments, Stranger, can any man persuade himself of such a monstrous
40 4    |           Let no one, my friends, persuade us that there is any quicker
41 4    |    shortest, because they have to persuade as well as threaten, or
42 8    |         and he thinks that he can persuade the council and assembly,
43 8    |          his life, let him go and persuade the city, and whatever they
44 8    |      remain, may do so, if he can persuade the council and assembly.
45 9    |      until he pay the penalty, or persuade him has obtained the sentence
46 9    |         the state, then if he can persuade the city, or if he will
47 10   |        first attempt to teach and persuade us that there are Gods by
48 10   |       temples, and if they do not persuade them, let them inflict a
49 11   |        man do know can he readily persuade others to believe him. And
50 11   |      there is no use in trying to persuade them that they should despise
51 12   |           will begin by trying to persuade men as far as he can. The


Meno
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52 Text |           are persuaded yourself, persuade our friend Anytus. And do


Parmenides
   Part
53 Intro|            thirdly, can we easily persuade ourselves with Zeller that
54 Intro|           For just as nothing can persuade us that the number one is


Phaedo
   Part
55 Text |        hobgoblin; him too we must persuade not to be afraid when he
56 Text |           I am not very likely to persuade other men that I do not
57 Text |      misfortune, if I cannot even persuade you that I am no worse off


Phaedrus
   Part
58 Intro|        should not be to please or persuade his fellow-servants, but
59 Intro|         in Aristophanes, he could persuade the ‘birds’ to hear him,
60 Intro|    grounds: first, as desiring to persuade, without a knowledge of
61 Text |           over himself. If he can persuade you to break with them,
62 Text | themselves imitate their god, and persuade their love to do the same,


Protagoras
   Part
63 Text |         as I say. And let me also persuade you to choose an arbiter


The Republic
   Book
64 1    |  alternative, I said, that we may persuade you to let us go? ~But can
65 1    |           let us go? ~But can you persuade us, if we refuse to listen
66 2    |   Socrates, do you wish really to persuade us, or only to seem to have
67 2    |           I should wish really to persuade you, I replied, if I could. ~
68 2    |           to rich men's doors and persuade them that they have a power
69 2    |         perform their ritual, and persuade not only individuals, but
70 2    |         strain, had you sought to persuade us of this from our youth
71 3    |           not have them trying to persuade our youth that the gods
72 3    |   necessity, and he is seeking to persuade God by prayer, or man by
73 6    |         said, are we beginning to persuade those whom you described
74 7    |           and we must endeavor to persuade those who are to be the
75 8    |         mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and


The Seventh Letter
   Part
76 Text |           When Dionysios tried to persuade me by offers of honours
77 Text |         study; while some of them persuade themselves that they have


The Statesman
   Part
78 Intro|      common people say: Let a man persuade the city first, and then
79 Intro|           youth; and if he try to persuade others to investigate those
80 Text |        but are not, although they persuade many, and shall separate
81 Text |           improved, he must first persuade his own State of the improvement,
82 Text |           of the young, who would persuade them to follow the art of
83 Text |    determines whether we ought to persuade or not, must be superior
84 Text |          science which is able to persuade?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Of course.~


The Symposium
   Part
85 Text |       persuaded of them, I try to persuade others, that in the attainment


Theaetetus
   Part
86 Intro|          not present; he can only persuade them, and the judge may
87 Intro|        violence, but he may truly persuade them of the commission of
88 Text |          to me; but I can neither persuade myself that I have a satisfactory
89 Text |      THEODORUS: If you could only persuade everybody, Socrates, as
90 Text |           ever seriously tried to persuade himself that an ox is a
91 Text |    orators and lawyers; for these persuade men by their art and make
92 Text |      Certainly not, they can only persuade them.~SOCRATES: And would