The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|      rhetoric is described as only useful for the purpose of self-accusation.


Charmides
   Part
 2 Text |        they too would give equally useful pieces of advice. Shall


Cratylus
   Part
 3 Intro|         can be subjected. They are useful in so far as they give us
 4 Intro|        Bishop Wilkins, are chiefly useful in showing what language


Euthydemus
   Part
 5 Text |            seeking, it ought to be useful.~CRITO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 6 Text |         what will they be good and useful? Shall we repeat that they


Gorgias
   Part
 7 Intro|          or of rhetoric being only useful in self-accusation. When
 8 Text |          in proportion as they are useful, or as the sight of them
 9 Text |       except in so far as they are useful or pleasant or both?~POLUS:
10 Text |   honourable is either pleasant or useful?~POLUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
11 Text |           I think not.~SOCRATES: A useful thing, then?~POLUS: Yes.~
12 Text |           rhetoric would indeed be useful. Do you say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’
13 Text |             Polus, rhetoric may be useful, but is of small if of any


Laches
   Part
14 Intro|           as the gymnastics of war—useful when the ranks are formed,
15 Intro|         are formed, and still more useful when they are broken; creating
16 Text |           this art is in many ways useful to young men. It is an advantage


Laws
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17 2    |            could not invent a more useful lie than this, or one which
18 2    |        beautiful and also the most useful of songs?~Cleinias. But,
19 5    |         repeated, and are quite as useful; a man should recollect
20 5    |        number is most likely to be useful to all cities; and we are
21 6    |         and the like works will be useful and ornamental; they will
22 7    |            health—these are always useful, and are not to be neglected,
23 7    |      exercises, and no others, are useful both in peace and war, and
24 7    |        just and temperate, and are useful to themselves and to the
25 7    |           the same object, what is useful in the revolutions of the
26 7    |            to acquire a speedy and useful knowledge of music in three
27 7    |    household they make people more useful to themselves, and more
28 8    |          in armour on horseback is useful, and therefore we may as
29 8    |        least troublesome, and most useful to the husbandman. And the
30 10   |             or think that they are useful, or at all true. Of the
31 10   |            if they are tedious but useful, is there any reason or


Lysis
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32 Intro|          sake of the pleasant, the useful, and the good:’ is the last
33 Text |           kindred, for you will be useful and good; but if you are
34 Text |            the friend of like, and useful to him—or rather let me
35 Text |         art of medicine a good and useful thing?~Yes.~But the human


Meno
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36 Intro|           contributes to knowledge useful. Both are equally far from
37 Text |            up they would have been useful to the state?~MENO: Yes,
38 Text |           good men are necessarily useful or profitable. Were we not
39 Text |        supposing that they will be useful only if they are true guides
40 Text |          right opinion is not less useful than knowledge?~MENO: The
41 Text |     inferior to knowledge, or less useful in action; nor is the man
42 Text |           acknowledged by us to be useful?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: Seeing
43 Text |           that men become good and useful to states, not only because
44 Text |             And the right guide is useful and good?~MENO: Certainly.~
45 Text |     SOCRATES: Then of two good and useful things, one, which is knowledge,


Phaedrus
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46 Text |            noble animal and a most useful possession, especially in


Philebus
   Part
47 Intro|   maintained that the good was the useful (Mem.). In his eagerness
48 Intro|          not intend to oppose ‘the useful’ to some higher conception,
49 Text |          however humble and little useful an art. And as for Gorgias,
50 Text |        admitted to be innocent and useful always; and if we say of


Protagoras
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51 Text |         all actions honourable and useful, of which the tendency is
52 Text |            honourable work is also useful and good?~This was admitted.~


The Republic
   Book
53 1    |          the skilful player a more useful and better partner at a
54 1    |      stones is the just man a more useful or better partner than the
55 1    |         That is to say, justice is useful when money is useless? ~
56 1    | pruning-hook safe, then justice is useful to the individual and to
57 1    |          would say that justice is useful; but when you want to use
58 1    |            other things-justice is useful when they are useless, and
59 1    |          and useless when they are useful? ~That is the inference. ~
60 2    |          words is in certain cases useful and not hateful; in dealing
61 2    |           do some harm, then it is useful and is a sort of medicine
62 3    |           useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men,
63 3    |       tempered like iron, and made useful, instead of brittle and
64 5    |         best of sayings, "that the useful is the noble, and the hurtful
65 5    |  generation may be better and more useful than their good and useful
66 5    |         useful than their good and useful parents, whereas his child
67 6    |            all other things become useful and advantageous only by
68 7    |        this conversion is rendered useful and profitable; or, on the
69 7    |      desired nature; since all the useful arts were reckoned mean
70 7    |          which I would rather call useful; that is, if sought after
71 10   |          she is pleasant, but also useful to States and to human life,


The Second Alcibiades
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72 Text |       action:—and the best and the useful are surely the same?—~ALCIBIADES:
73 Text |          we should call wise and a useful adviser both of himself


The Sophist
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74 Intro|            points which it will be useful to consider, such as the
75 Intro|   expression, forms of thought are useful, but no further:—we may


Theaetetus
   Part
76 Text |         the idea that they will be useful in after-time; which, in