Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. StatesmanCharles Scribner, 1871 |
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able abstract according admit affirm agree allow already animals answer appears argument become begin better body called Certainly clearly consider course desire dialogue difficulty divided division elements equal evil example existence explain false feeling follow further give Gorgias greater greatest hear human ideas ignorance Impossible infinite kinds king knowledge learned less living manner matter mean measure mind motion nature never not-being objects older once opinion opposite pain Parmenides partake perception person philosophy Plato pleasure present principle Protagoras question reason relation rest rhetoric rule seems sense separated similar Socrates Sophist sort soul speak suppose surely tell term Theaet Theaetetus Theod things thought tion true truly truth understand unity unlike whole wisdom
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Page 111 - Prometheus has already received my orders to take from them: in the second place, they shall be entirely stripped before they are judged, for they shall be judged when they are dead; and the judge too shall be naked, that is to say, dead— he with his naked soul shall pierce into the other naked...
Page 309 - I would consort with them again — they are ready to go to me on their knees — and then, if my familiar allows, which is not always the case, I receive them, and they begin to grow again. Dire are the pangs which my art is able to arouse and to allay in those who...
Page 160 - Whether all this which they call the universe is left to the guidance of unreason and chance medley, or, on the contrary, as our fathers have declared, ordered...
Page 371 - ... the quantity of milk which he squeezes from them ; and he remarks that the creature whom they tend, and out of whom they squeeze the wealth, is of a less tractable and more insidious nature. Then, again, he observes that the great man is of necessity as illmannered and uneducated as any shepherd — for he has no leisure, and he is surrounded by a wall, which is his mountain-pen.
Page 112 - They get no good themselves, but others get good when they behold them enduring for ever the most terrible and painful and fearful sufferings as the penalty of their sins — there they are, hanging up as examples, in the prison-house of the world below, a spectacle and a warning to all unrighteous men who come thither.
Page 345 - I receive them, and they begin to grow again. Dire are the pangs which my art is able to arouse and to allay in those who consort with me, just like the pangs of women in childbirth ; night and day they are full of perplexity and travail which is even worse than that of the women. So much for them. And there are others, Theaetetus, who come to me apparently having nothing in them ; and as I know that they have no need of my art, I coax them into marrying some one, and by the grace of God I can generally...
Page 112 - ... by pain and suffering; for there is no other way in which they can be delivered from their evil. But they who have been guilty of the worst crimes, and are incurable by reason of their crimes, are made examples; for, as they are incurable, the time has passed at which they can receive any benefit themselves.
Page 68 - I conceive, is that the makers of laws are the majority who are weak; and they make laws and distribute praises and censures with a view to themselves and to their own interests; and they terrify the stronger sort of men, and those who are able to get the better of them...
Page 77 - ... and the ignorant he called the uninitiated or leaky, and the place in the souls of the uninitiated in which the desires are seated, being the intemperate and incontinent part, he compared to a vessel full of holes, because it can never be satisfied.
Page 371 - Why is he unable to calculate that Amphitryon had a twenty-fifth ancestor, who might have been anybody, and was such as Fortune made him, and he had a fiftieth, and so on? He is amused at the notion that be cannot do a sum, and thinks that a little arithmetic would have got rid of his senseless vanity.