The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |         that he pretends to be in earnest when he is only in jest,
 2 Text |           like a person who is in earnest.~I should like you, O men


Cratylus
   Part
 3 Intro|        separate his jest from his earnest?—Sunt bona, sunt quaedum
 4 Intro|        himself, that he is not in earnest, and is only indulging the
 5 Intro|      partly in jest and partly in earnest. He is discoursing in a
 6 Text |           the enquiry demands our earnest attention and we must not


Euthydemus
   Part
 7 Text |        are you in jest or in real earnest?~I was led by this to imagine
 8 Text |          that we were in profound earnest. Dionysodorus said:~Reflect,
 9 Text |          show themselves to us in earnest. When they begin to be in
10 Text |          When they begin to be in earnest their full beauty will appear:
11 Text |     serious, and show us in sober earnest what that knowledge was
12 Text |           see now that you are in earnest; hardly have I got you to


Euthyphro
   Part
13 Text |        but perhaps they may be in earnest, and then what the end will


Gorgias
   Part
14 Intro|     convinced that Socrates is in earnest; for if these things are
15 Intro|            he is in most profound earnest, as Chaerephon remarks.
16 Intro|         he is also more deeply in earnest. He rises higher than even
17 Intro| Chaerephon whether Socrates is in earnest, and on receiving the assurance
18 Intro|        meaning. The more he is in earnest, the more ironical he becomes;
19 Intro|           and he is never more in earnest or more ironical than in
20 Intro|     length he makes even Polus in earnest. Finally, he drops the argument,
21 Intro|        this confusion of jest and earnest, we may now return to the
22 Text |        Chaerephon, is Socrates in earnest, or is he joking?~CHAEREPHON:
23 Text |       that he is in most profound earnest; but you may well ask him.~
24 Text |          me, Socrates, are you in earnest, or only in jest? For if
25 Text |           jest? For if you are in earnest, and what you say is true,
26 Text |     SOCRATES: Then, as you are in earnest, shall we proceed with the
27 Text |             Or, ‘I am in profound earnest.’)~SOCRATES: Well, if you
28 Text |         asked me whether I was in earnest when I said that a man ought
29 Text |         reply, seemingly quite in earnest, as if I had asked, Who


Ion
   Part
30 Intro|          is a mixture of jest and earnest, in which no definite result


Laws
   Book
31 1    |           and they are equally in earnest. Please follow me and the
32 1    |        upwards, both in sport and earnest, in its several branches:
33 1    |            and conquered them, in earnest and in play, by word, deed,
34 3    |           jest if you like, or in earnest if you like, that the prayer
35 3    |        rather receive my words in earnest, I am willing that you should;
36 5    |          things, both in jest and earnest.~Enough has now been said
37 7    |       hardly worth considering in earnest, and yet we must be in earnest
38 7    |    earnest, and yet we must be in earnest about them—a sad necessity
39 8    |         why a city will not be in earnest about such contests or any
40 10   |      Athenian. Seeing you thus in earnest, I would fain offer up a
41 10   |          by them both in jest and earnest, like charms, who have also
42 10   |         the deed has been done in earnest, or only from childish levity,
43 11   |           distinction of jest and earnest, and allow a man to make
44 11   |          a set purpose? We forbid earnest—that is unalterably fixed;
45 11   |           in anger and in serious earnest they shall not be allowed.
46 12   |       anything, either in jest or earnest, of his own motion, but


Meno
   Part
47 Text |            indeed. But are you in earnest, Socrates, in saying that


Phaedo
   Part
48 Intro|     another; and he is as much in earnest about his doctrine of retribution,


Phaedrus
   Part
49 Intro|        but he is also in profound earnest and in a deeper vein of
50 Intro|         their jest into a sort of earnest. (Compare Phaedo, Symp.)
51 Text |      remains with them, and is an earnest of good things to come.~
52 Text |         you mean that I am not in earnest?~PHAEDRUS: Now don’t talk
53 Text |         to be divulged even at my earnest desire. Only, as you say,
54 Text |       SOCRATES: How profoundly in earnest is the lover, because to
55 Text |         that his assailant was in earnest?~PHAEDRUS: I thought, Socrates,
56 Text |            further, that in sober earnest I, having persuaded you
57 Text |           who teaches rhetoric in earnest will give an exact description
58 Text |        pastime. But when he is in earnest he sows in fitting soil,
59 Text |          be his way when he is in earnest; he will do the other, as


Philebus
   Part
60 Intro|          Bentham and Mr. Mill are earnest in maintaining that happiness
61 Text |    Protarchus, when it interrupts earnest.~PROTARCHUS: Very true.~


Protagoras
   Part
62 Intro|        fooling,’ how far he is in earnest.~All the interests and contrasts


The Republic
   Book
63 1    |       believe that you are now in earnest and are not amusing yourself
64 1    |         our expense. ~I may be in earnest or not, but what is that
65 3    |           joke, but in right good earnest, and before a large company.
66 5    |           to be put in jest or in earnest, let us come to an understanding
67 6    |        they do; and in right good earnest. ~Now what opinion of any
68 6    |         in another. ~How truly in earnest you are, Socrates! he said;
69 6    |           likely to be still more earnest in their opposition to you,
70 7    |           would be continuous and earnest search, and discoveries
71 7    |         in thus turning jest into earnest I am equally ridiculous. ~
72 8    |           making believe to be in earnest? ~How would they address
73 8    |       longer to be had simple and earnest, but are made up of mixed


The Sophist
   Part
74 Intro|   Socrates, half in jest, half in earnest, declares that he must be


The Symposium
   Part
75 Intro|        does Plato mingle jest and earnest, truth and opinion in the
76 Intro|           evil. Pausanias is very earnest in the defence of such loves;


Theaetetus
   Part
77 Text |           dialectician will be in earnest, and only correct his adversary


Timaeus
   Part
78 Text |         part. But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge