The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |         men of Athens, by force of persuasion and entreaty I could overpower


Cratylus
   Part
 2 Intro|           not by force, but by the persuasion, or rather by the prevailing


Critias
   Part
 3 Intro|       mankind, whom they guided by persuasion, and not by force. Hephaestus
 4 Text |         our souls by the rudder of persuasion according to their own pleasure;—


Gorgias
   Part
 5 Intro|          Socrates, that the art of persuasion, which gives freedom to
 6 Intro|           the exact nature of this persuasion?—is the persevering retort:
 7 Intro|       rhetoric simply as an art of persuasion, because there are other
 8 Intro|     arithmetic, which is an art of persuasion about odd and even numbers.
 9 Intro|       still there are two sorts of persuasion: one which gives knowledge,
10 Intro|          which of the two sorts of persuasion does rhetoric effect in
11 Intro|      compare Gorg.), as the art of persuasion, of all arts the best, for
12 Text |       rhetoric is the artificer of persuasion, having this and no other
13 Text |            above that of producing persuasion?~GORGIAS: No: the definition
14 Text |           very fair, Socrates; for persuasion is the chief end of rhetoric.~
15 Text |        what are the topics of that persuasion of which you speak, and
16 Text |         ask— what is this power of persuasion which is given by rhetoric,
17 Text |          the only art which brings persuasion, or do other arts have the
18 Text |        rhetoric is an artificer of persuasion?~GORGIAS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
19 Text |           one asks us what sort of persuasion, and about what, —we shall
20 Text |            what, —we shall answer, persuasion which teaches the quantity
21 Text |         speaking are artificers of persuasion, and of what sort, and about
22 Text |          not the only artificer of persuasion?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES:
23 Text |         not only rhetoric works by persuasion, but that other arts do
24 Text |           a very fair one: Of what persuasion is rhetoric the artificer,
25 Text |        that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other
26 Text |           then assume two sorts of persuasion,—one which is the source
27 Text |        SOCRATES: And which sort of persuasion does rhetoric create in
28 Text |            and unjust, the sort of persuasion which gives belief without
29 Text |      appear, is the artificer of a persuasion which creates belief about
30 Text |          not by instruction but by persuasion?~GORGIAS: Quite so.~SOCRATES:
31 Text |        will have greater powers of persuasion than the physician even
32 Text |          to have greater powers of persuasion.~GORGIAS: Very true.~SOCRATES:
33 Text |           is to have more power of persuasion than the physician, he will
34 Text |         the utmost their powers of persuasion. But if we, Polus, are right,
35 Text |         which they had, whether of persuasion or of force, in the improvement


Laws
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36 4    |        natures do not yield to the persuasion of custom, chastising them
37 4    |           might use in legislation—persuasion and force; for in dealing
38 4    |            can; they do not mingle persuasion with coercion, but employ
39 5    |       tested them by every sort of persuasion and for a sufficient time,
40 9    |         power, working her will by persuasion and by the force of deceit
41 10   |            should first of all use persuasion to us, and show us the existence
42 10   |      summoning up all the power of persuasion which we possess.~Athenian.
43 10   |          time infuse the spirit of persuasion into his words, and mitigate
44 10   |             Why, Stranger, if such persuasion be at all possible, then
45 11   |           serious accents, both of persuasion and threatening, and such


Parmenides
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46 Intro| description of him. After a little persuasion he is induced to favour


Phaedo
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47 Intro|          many elements of proof or persuasion, ethical and mythological
48 Text |            to this I cling, in the persuasion that this principle will


Phaedrus
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49 Intro|          and is neither the art of persuasion nor knowledge of the truth
50 Intro|        truth alone, but the art of persuasion founded on knowledge of
51 Intro|         having learned ‘the art of persuasion,’ nor having any insight
52 Text |            that from opinion comes persuasion, and not from the truth.~
53 Text |            not give you the art of persuasion.~PHAEDRUS: There is reason
54 Text |           true art of rhetoric and persuasion is to be acquired.~SOCRATES:


Philebus
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55 Text |          Socrates, that the art of persuasion far surpassed every other;


The Republic
   Book
56 2    |      assemblies; and so, partly by persuasion and partly by force, I shall
57 3    |            willingness to yield to persuasion or entreaty or admonition,
58 3    |            some men are changed by persuasion and that others forget;
59 6    |            own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the
60 7    |           the citizens together by persuasion and necessity, making them


The Seventh Letter
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61 Text |         want of words and power of persuasion, which I knew to be a special
62 Text |            he able to work upon by persuasion, instruction, services and


The Sophist
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63 Intro|          hunted either by force or persuasion;—either by the pirate, man-stealer,
64 Intro|             talker. The latter use persuasion, and persuasion is either
65 Intro|         latter use persuasion, and persuasion is either private or public.
66 Text |      called in one word the art of persuasion.~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
67 Text |             True.~STRANGER: And of persuasion, there may be said to be


The Statesman
   Part
68 Intro|            to cure his patients by persuasion, and not by force? Is he
69 Intro|   determines whether we are to use persuasion, or not, is higher than
70 Intro|          is higher than the art of persuasion; the science which determines
71 Text |           whether we are to employ persuasion or force towards any one,
72 Text |     governs the arts of speech and persuasion.~STRANGER: Which, if I am


Timaeus
   Part
73 Intro|          instruction, the other by persuasion, the one is rational, the
74 Intro|  irrational; the one is movable by persuasion, the other immovable; the
75 Text |          instruction, the other by persuasion; the one is always accompanied
76 Text |          one cannot be overcome by persuasion, but the other can: and