The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |       their own proper virtue and excellence; but as they are human beings,


Charmides
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 2 PreS |         exhausted the list. 6 The excellence of a translation will consist,


Cratylus
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 3 Intro|           as furnishing a type of excellence to which the former cannot
 4 Intro|           high degree of literary excellence.~To poetry the form and


Critias
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 5 Text |         world for the variety and excellence of its fruits and the suitableness
 6 Text |           of the pleasantness and excellence of their waters. They constructed
 7 Text |          and beauty, owing to the excellence of the soil, while the remainder


The First Alcibiades
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 8 Pre  |           forgery, which combines excellence with length. A really great
 9 Pre  | considerable length, of (3) great excellence, and also (4) in harmony
10 Pre  |         ground of (2) length, (3) excellence, and (4) accordance with
11 Pre  |         under two heads only: (1) excellence; and (2) uniformity of tradition—
12 Pre  |         poetical or philosophical excellence; and (3) considering that
13 Pre  |           and to their inimitable excellence. The three dialogues which
14 Text |            And as you speak of an excellence or art of the best in wrestling,
15 Text |           in wrestling, and of an excellence in playing the lyre, I wish
16 Text |          what this latter is;—the excellence of wrestling I call gymnastic,
17 Text |        SOCRATES: And I called the excellence in wrestling gymnastic?~
18 Text |          meaning; and what is the excellence of the art of music, as
19 Text |           told you truly that the excellence of wrestling was gymnastic—
20 Text |         was gymnastic—what is the excellence of music—to be what?~ALCIBIADES:
21 Text |     please to tell me what is the excellence of war and peace; as the
22 Text |       must possess this degree of excellence, rather look to your antagonists,


Gorgias
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23 Text |       health, or any other bodily excellence, are good, and their opposites
24 Text |     health and every other bodily excellence: is that true or not?~CALLICLES:


Ion
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25 Text |         the passages of which the excellence ought to be judged by the


Laches
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26 Text |           proof of their skill or excellence in one or more works.~LACHES:


Laws
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27 1    |          suppose, in the scale of excellence might be placed a judge,
28 1    |      speaking in behalf of divine excellence;—at the legislator when
29 1    |          the love of that sort of excellence in which when he grows up
30 2    |        most persons say, that the excellence of music is to give pleasure
31 2    |           with the many, that the excellence of music is to be measured
32 2    |           deemed to have any real excellence, but only that other kind
33 2    |        pursued with a view to the excellence of the body, this scientific
34 4    |           to that sort of warlike excellence which is most deserving
35 5    |          beauty and rectitude and excellence and reputation, and causes
36 5    |       first, second, and third in excellence, and then we will leave
37 6    |         attainment of its natural excellence, has the greatest effect
38 9    |       both, and third in order of excellence. This argument teaches us
39 10   |        souls having every sort of excellence are the causes of all of
40 10   |         things with a view to the excellence and preservation of the
41 10   |           to men even of moderate excellence, who would never betray
42 12   |   performed with view to military excellence; and agility and ease should
43 12   |        and give them the prize of excellence, at the same time proclaiming
44 12   |           and has won the palm of excellence, that these very qualities


Menexenus
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45 Pre  |           forgery, which combines excellence with length. A really great
46 Pre  | considerable length, of (3) great excellence, and also (4) in harmony
47 Pre  |         ground of (2) length, (3) excellence, and (4) accordance with
48 Pre  |         under two heads only: (1) excellence; and (2) uniformity of tradition—
49 Pre  |         poetical or philosophical excellence; and (3) considering that
50 Pre  |           and to their inimitable excellence. The three dialogues which
51 Intro|   extremely skilful imitator. The excellence of the forgery may be fairly


Parmenides
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52 Intro|       writing of equal length and excellence is known to be spurious.


Phaedrus
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53 Intro|          are the root of literary excellence. It had no life or aspiration,


Protagoras
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54 Text |           the Lacedaemonians this excellence in philosophy and speculation:


The Republic
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55 1    |          is appointed has also an excellence? Need I ask again whether
56 1    |            And has not the eye an excellence? ~Yes. ~And the ear has
57 1    |         the ear has an end and an excellence also? ~True. ~And the same
58 1    |         them an end and a special excellence? ~That is so. ~Well, and
59 1    |       wanting in their own proper excellence and have a defect instead? ~
60 1    |       they have lost their proper excellence, which is sight; but I have
61 1    |          them by their own proper excellence, and fail of fulfilling
62 1    |      deprived of their own proper excellence they cannot fulfil their
63 1    |           And has not the soul an excellence also? ~Yes. ~And can she
64 1    |        ends when deprived of that excellence? ~She cannot. ~Then an evil
65 1    |      admitted that justice is the excellence of the soul, and injustice
66 3    |           good body by any bodily excellence improves the soul, but,
67 3    |         the good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far
68 4    |           contributes most to the excellence of the State, whether the
69 5    |         that all men are equal in excellence, or is one man better than
70 10   |     imitates them? ~Yes. ~And the excellence or beauty or truth of every
71 10   |           the same, but about the excellence or badness of it the maker
72 10   |        and are in raptures at the excellence of the poet who stirs our


The Sophist
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73 Intro|        perhaps more uniformity in excellence than in mediocrity. The


The Statesman
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74 Intro|         ground of their intrinsic excellence, as an undoubted work of
75 Intro|         may be given here.~1. The excellence, importance, and metaphysical
76 Text |     difficulty in action; and the excellence or beauty of every work


Timaeus
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77 Text |       country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength,
78 Text |    solitary, yet by reason of its excellence able to converse with itself,
79 Text |       made the soul in origin and excellence prior to and older than