The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |      superhuman wisdom which I may fail to describe, because I have


Charmides
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 2 Text |        stupid as ever; for still I fail to comprehend how this knowing


Cratylus
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 3 Intro|             and any other way will fail;—this is true of all actions.
 4 Text |        succeed, but any other will fail and be of no use at all.~


Euthydemus
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 5 Text |           action, for a man cannot fail of acting as he is acting—


The First Alcibiades
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 6 Text |        pains and skill. And if you fail in the required qualities,
 7 Text |       required qualities, you will fail also in becoming renowned
 8 Text |       falls into error will he not fail both in his public and private


Gorgias
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 9 Intro|          popular mind; and if they fail them in a crisis they are
10 Intro|         which he is most likely to fail; and even if he succeed,
11 Text |           the intemperate? Or do I fail to persuade you, and, however


Ion
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12 Text |             is obvious. No one can fail to see that you speak of


Laches
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13 Text |             or if he be brave, and fail ever so little, other men


Laws
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14 5    |            nature. For we must not fail to observe, O Megillus and
15 6    |         mind or have no mind, they fail; wherefore let the bridegroom
16 7    |            nor can he who lives it fail of meeting his due; and
17 10   |         aiming at the greater, and fail of attaining the lesser?


Menexenus
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18 Text |     interest of Hellas. Time would fail me to tell of their defence


Parmenides
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19 Intro|          any age of philosophy. We fail to understand him, because
20 Text |          being and one—does either fail to imply the other? is the
21 Text |        part of being, and does not fail in any part, whether great


Phaedo
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22 Text |            of which the time would fail me to tell.~Wherefore, Simmias,
23 Text |            said, his legs began to fail, and then he lay on his


Phaedrus
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24 Intro|           artist like Plato cannot fail in unity, and that the unity
25 Intro|          exist, but how they could fail to exist. In the attempt
26 Text |       maintain that I ought not to fail in my suit, because I am
27 Text |      wisdom, and thereby he cannot fail to do him great harm. That
28 Text |       maintain that I ought not to fail in my suit, because I am
29 Text |            maintain I ought not to fail in my suit because I am
30 Text |       master of his art; but if he fail in any of these points,
31 Text | practicable.~SOCRATES: But even to fail in an honourable object


Protagoras
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32 Text |         that words never seemed to fail, or with such brevity that


The Republic
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33 1    |      deficient in sight or the ear fail of hearing, and therefore
34 1    |         own proper excellence, and fail of fulfilling them by their
35 2    |         fruit, And his sheep never fail to bear, and the sea gives
36 2    |        full of prophecy, would not fail. And now he himself who
37 3    |           many, he will altogether fail of gaining much reputation
38 4    |           father and mother, or to fail in his religious duties? ~
39 5    |         just man should in nothing fail of absolute justice; or
40 6    |            first place unless they fail in some other respect. Suppose,
41 6    |     vegetable or animal, when they fail to meet with proper nutriment,
42 6    |          help fearing that I shall fail, and that my indiscreet
43 7    |        that degree also be said to fail in intelligence? Will you
44 8    |         they will soon be found to fail in taking care of us, the
45 8    |            people. ~And when these fail? ~Why, clearly, he said,


The Second Alcibiades
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46 Text |            assertion that the many fail to obtain the best because


The Sophist
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47 Text |         your ears, Theaetetus, may fail to catch their answer, which
48 Text |       STRANGER: And do they always fail in their attempt to be thought


The Statesman
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49 Intro|        likely be right, are apt to fail in seeing the differences


The Symposium
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50 Text |        would desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger?
51 Text |           he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed. And in the


Theaetetus
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52 Intro|            and knowing you both, I fail to identify the impression
53 Text |           being or becoming, can I fail of knowing that which I
54 Text |        learned, and remembers, can fail to know?~THEAETETUS: Impossible,
55 Text |       learned and remembered could fail to know, and we showed that
56 Text |             THEODORUS: How could I fail to observe all that, Socrates?~
57 Text |           passing laws, must often fail of their highest interests?~
58 Text |          other hand, if we utterly fail, I suppose that we must
59 Text |          will take place; but if I fail and transpose them, putting
60 Text |     sensible perception of both, I fail in holding the seal over


Timaeus
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61 Intro|         power of language seems to fail him, and the dramatic form
62 Intro|           and elasticity could not fail to be ‘a most gracious assistance’
63 Intro|            of which all predicates fail and fall short. Eternity
64 Intro|            in the ancients, but we fail to see them in ourselves.~
65 Text | habitations of their own, they may fail in their conception of philosophers
66 Text |           nevertheless we will not fail to describe it. For the
67 Text |         and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying,