The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|      oracle if there was any man wiser than Socrates; and the answer
 2 Intro|       was, that there was no man wiser. What could be the meaning
 3 Intro|          refute it by finding ‘a wiser;’ and first he went to the
 4 Intro|       the vain hope of finding a wiser man than himself. Yet this
 5 Text |      tell him whether anyone was wiser than I was, and the Pythian
 6 Text |  answered, that there was no man wiser. Chaerephon is dead himself;
 7 Text |          I could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might
 8 Text |       him, ‘Here is a man who is wiser than I am; but you said
 9 Text |          wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon
10 Text |        less esteemed were really wiser and better. I will tell
11 Text |         this they certainly were wiser than I was. But I observed
12 Text |          may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are:—that whereas


Cratylus
   Part
13 Intro|      more likely to be right—the wiser or the less wise, the men
14 Intro|          not careful, I shall be wiser than I ought to be by to-morrow’
15 Text |         man cannot in reality be wiser than another.~HERMOGENES:
16 Text |      city, taken as a class, the wiser?~HERMOGENES: I should say,
17 Text |       imagined the Trojans to be wiser than their wives?~HERMOGENES:
18 Text |      to-morrow’s dawn I shall be wiser than I ought to be. Now,


Euthydemus
   Part
19 Text |          would not be at all the wiser; he would only be able to


Euthyphro
   Part
20 Text |        know that you are as much wiser than I am, as you are younger.


The First Alcibiades
   Part
21 Text |         was deemed to have grown wiser in the society of Pericles,—
22 Text |        Calliades, who have grown wiser in the society of Zeno,
23 Text |       guardian who is better and wiser than your guardian, Pericles.~


Gorgias
   Part
24 Intro|        first become a better and wiser man, for he as well as Callicles
25 Intro|         I mean the worthier, the wiser.’ You mean to say that one
26 Intro|       the stronger, and then the wiser, and now something else;—
27 Intro|         leaders to be better and wiser than themselves: to be their
28 Text |          better and superior the wiser, or if not, whom?~CALLICLES:
29 Text |         assuredly, I do mean the wiser.~SOCRATES: Then according
30 Text |      justice—that the better and wiser should rule and have more
31 Text |        us, being a physician, is wiser in the matter of food than
32 Text |         of us—will he not, being wiser, be also better than we
33 Text |        but do you admit that the wiser is the better? Answer ‘Yes’
34 Text |         man must be superior and wiser in order to claim a larger
35 Text |      stronger, then again as the wiser, and now you bring forward


Laches
   Part
36 Text |        be courageous, are really wiser than mankind; or whether


Laws
   Book
37 3    |          would have taken a much wiser head than ours.~Megillus.


Lysis
   Part
38 Text |       the two, and which was the wiser of the two; but at this
39 Text |       father thinks that you are wiser than he is, he will instantly
40 Text |     which we appear to him to be wiser than himself or his son


Phaedo
   Part
41 Intro|  subtleties he is for leaving to wiser heads than his own; he prefers
42 Text |         of division and addition—wiser heads than mine may answer


Phaedrus
   Part
43 Intro|        alone;’ or ‘the saying of wiser men than ourselves that
44 Text |       wise may seem to him to be wiser than ever.~Once upon a time
45 Text |   returned to him. Now I will be wiser than either Stesichorus
46 Text |         for there is a saying of wiser men than ourselves, that
47 Text |          will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories;


Philebus
   Part
48 Intro|          richer, fairer, better, wiser than he is? ‘Yes.’ And he


Protagoras
   Part
49 Intro|          make him a better and a wiser man.’ ‘But in what will
50 Text |         SOCRATES: And is not the wiser always the fairer, sweet
51 Text |         both of them; but to the wiser a higher meed should be
52 Text |       cannot have any one who is wiser than Protagoras. And if


The Republic
   Book
53 1    |        that the just are clearly wiser and better and abler than
54 7    |    imagine, which may be left to wiser persons. ~But where are


The Second Alcibiades
   Part
55 Text |          friend, some one who is wiser than either you or I will
56 Text |        words I originally quoted wiser than we are, when he bade


The Sophist
   Part
57 Text |          to do so were deemed no wiser for their controversial


The Statesman
   Part
58 Intro| experience and wisdom. Hence the wiser course is, that they should
59 Text |         one should presume to be wiser than the laws; and as touching


The Symposium
   Part
60 Intro|        compare Symp.)—which were wiser than the writer of them
61 Intro|      mother and is the elder and wiser goddess, and the other,


Theaetetus
   Part
62 Intro|  expounding to us that he was no wiser than a tadpole. For if sensations
63 Intro|        of Theaetetus, who may be wiser than many bearded men, but
64 Intro|        many bearded men, but not wiser than you, Theodorus.~‘The
65 Intro|    agreed in thinking themselves wiser than others in some respects,
66 Intro|     truth. One man still remains wiser than another, a more accurate
67 Intro|      perception. For ‘truer’ or ‘wiser’ he substituted the word ‘
68 Text |          Is not learning growing wiser about that which you learn?’~
69 Text |       can be or ought to be made wiser than the other: nor can
70 Text |          them. And so one man is wiser than another; and no one
71 Text |         every one thinks himself wiser than other men in some things,
72 Text |         he may be expected to be wiser than we are. And if he could
73 Text |        no individual or state is wiser than another, still the
74 Text |       the community one state is wiser and one counsellor better
75 Text |         must admit one man to be wiser than another, and that the
76 Text |       than another, and that the wiser is a measure: but I, who