item: #1 of 26
          id: 1571
      author: Plato
       title: Critias
        date: None
       words: 9885
      flesch: 57
     summary: He also begat and brought up five pairs of twin male children; and dividing the island of Atlantis into ten portions, he gave to the first-born of the eldest pair his mother's dwelling and the surrounding allotment, which was the largest and best, and made him king over the rest; the others he made princes, and gave them rule over many men, and a large territory. And around the temple on the outside were placed statues of gold of all the descendants of the ten kings and of their wives, and there were many other great offerings of kings and of private persons, coming both from the city itself and from the foreign cities over which they held sway.
    keywords: country; critias; earth; gods; island; kings; men; poseidon; sea; temple; water; zones
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        item: #2 of 26
          id: 1572
      author: Plato
       title: Timaeus
        date: None
       words: 73125
      flesch: 58
     summary: The liquid kind is composed of the small and unequal particles of water; and moves itself and is moved by other bodies owing to the want of uniformity and the shape of its particles; whereas the fusile kind, being formed of large and uniform particles, is more stable than the other, and is heavy and compact by reason of its uniformity. Of the particles coming from other bodies which fall upon the sight, some are smaller and some are larger, and some are equal to the parts of the sight itself.
    keywords: air; bodies; body; earth; elements; fire; flesh; form; god; good; greek; kinds; man; manner; mind; motion; nature; order; particles; parts; place; plato; power; reason; sense; soul; things; timaeus; time; triangles; universe; water; way; words; world
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        item: #3 of 26
          id: 1579
      author: Plato
       title: Lysis
        date: None
       words: 12557
      flesch: 82
     summary: But the bad are not friends, for they are not even like themselves, and still less are they like one another. Hence the casuistical or other questions which arise out of the relations of friends have not often been considered seriously in modern times.
    keywords: dear; evil; friend; friendship; good; love; lysis; menexenus; sake; socrates
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        item: #4 of 26
          id: 1580
      author: Plato
       title: Charmides
        date: None
       words: 21869
      flesch: 67
     summary: And if we could find something which is at once greater than itself, and greater than other great things, but not greater than those things in comparison of which the others are greater, then that thing would have the property of being greater and also less than itself? You come asking in what wisdom or temperance differs from the other sciences, and then you try to discover some respect in which they are alike; but they are not, for all the other sciences are of something else, and not of themselves; wisdom alone is a science of other sciences, and of itself.
    keywords: charmides; critias; dialogues; english; good; greek; ideas; knowledge; language; man; philosophy; plato; science; socrates; temperance; things; wisdom; words
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        item: #5 of 26
          id: 1584
      author: Plato
       title: Laches
        date: None
       words: 12295
      flesch: 77
     summary: For my opinion is, that if the professor of this art be a coward, he will be likely to become rash, and his character will be only more notorious; or if he be brave, and fail ever so little, other men will be on the watch, and he will be greatly traduced; for there is a jealousy of such pretenders; and unless a man be pre-eminent in valour, he cannot help being ridiculous, if he says that he has this sort of skill. There is no difficulty in seeing that the knowledge and practice of other military arts will be honourable and valuable to a man; and this lesson may be the beginning of them.
    keywords: art; courage; good; knowledge; laches; lysimachus; man; nicias; socrates
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        item: #6 of 26
          id: 1591
      author: Plato
       title: Protagoras
        date: None
       words: 28115
      flesch: 71
     summary: There yet remains one difficulty which has been raised by you about the sons of good men. What is the reason why good men teach their sons the knowledge which is gained from teachers, and make them wise in that, but do nothing towards improving them in the virtues which distinguish themselves?
    keywords: answer; art; evil; good; justice; knowledge; man; men; nature; pleasure; prodicus; protagoras; question; simonides; socrates; things; virtue; way
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        item: #7 of 26
          id: 1598
      author: Plato
       title: Euthydemus
        date: None
       words: 21080
      flesch: 77
     summary: And should we be happy by reason of the presence of good things, if they profited us not, or if they profited us? Well, Cleinias, but if you have the use as well as the possession of good things, is that sufficient to confer happiness?
    keywords: art; cleinias; crito; ctesippus; dionysodorus; euthydemus; good; knowledge; man; men; socrates; things; use; wisdom
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        item: #8 of 26
          id: 1600
      author: Plato
       title: Symposium
        date: None
       words: 32810
      flesch: 66
     summary: The value which he attributes to such loves as motives to virtue and philosophy is at variance with modern and Christian notions, but is in accordance with Hellenic sentiment. Pausanias is very earnest in the defence of such loves; and he speaks of them as generally approved among Hellenes and disapproved by barbarians.
    keywords: agathon; alcibiades; aristophanes; beauty; compare; desire; eryximachus; fair; gods; good; love; man; men; nature; phaedrus; plato; praise; socrates; speech; things; time; truth; way
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        item: #9 of 26
          id: 1616
      author: Plato
       title: Cratylus
        date: None
       words: 53085
      flesch: 67
     summary: But he does not see that 'habit and repute,' and their relation to other words, are always exercising an influence over them. We may learn something also from the falterings of old age, the searching for words, and the confusion of them with one another, the forgetfulness of proper names (more commonly than of other words because they are more isolated), aphasia, and the like.
    keywords: cratylus; expression; form; gods; good; hermogenes; imitation; knowledge; language; letters; man; meaning; men; mind; motion; names; nature; plato; power; principle; rest; right; saying; sense; socrates; sort; soul; sound; speech; things; time; true; truth; use; view; way; words; work; world
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        item: #10 of 26
          id: 1635
      author: Plato
       title: Ion
        date: None
       words: 6556
      flesch: 80
     summary: Then, again, you are obliged to be continually in the company of many good poets; and especially of Homer, who is the best and most divine of them; and to understand him, and not merely learn his words by rote, is a thing greatly to be envied. Must the same art have the same subject of knowledge, and different arts other subjects of knowledge?
    keywords: art; good; homer; ion; poets; rhapsode; socrates
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        item: #11 of 26
          id: 1636
      author: Plato
       title: Phaedrus
        date: None
       words: 38382
      flesch: 68
     summary: Such is the life of the gods; but of other souls, that which follows God best and is likest to him lifts the head of the charioteer into the outer world, and is carried round in the revolution, troubled indeed by the steeds, and with difficulty beholding true being; while another only rises and falls, and sees, and again fails to see by reason of the unruliness of the steeds. If you say that the lover is more to be esteemed, because his love is thought to be greater; for he is willing to say and do what is hateful to other men, in order to please his beloved;--that, if true, is only a proof that he will prefer any future love to his present, and will injure his old love at the pleasure of the new.
    keywords: art; beauty; beloved; god; good; human; knowledge; life; love; lysias; man; men; mind; nature; non; phaedrus; plato; power; rhetoric; socrates; soul; speech; things; time; truth; way; world; writing
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        item: #12 of 26
          id: 1642
      author: Plato
       title: Euthyphro
        date: None
       words: 9242
      flesch: 78
     summary: In other words, says Socrates, piety is 'a science of asking and giving'--asking what we want and giving what they want; in short, a mode of doing business between gods and men. He brings a wonderful accusation against me, which at first hearing excites surprise: he says that I am a poet or maker of gods, and that I invent new gods and deny the existence of old ones; this is the ground of his indictment.
    keywords: euthyphro; father; gods; impiety; piety; pious; socrates
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        item: #13 of 26
          id: 1643
      author: Plato
       title: Meno
        date: None
       words: 22294
      flesch: 76
     summary: Meno is very ready to admit that justice is virtue: 'Would you say virtue or a virtue, for there are other virtues, such as courage, temperance, and the like; just as round is a figure, and black and white are colours, and yet there are other figures and other colours. Quite right; and that is just what I am saying about virtue--that there are other virtues as well as justice. SOCRATES: What are they?
    keywords: anytus; boy; figure; good; ideas; knowledge; man; meno; nature; philosophy; plato; right; socrates; things; virtue
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        item: #14 of 26
          id: 1658
      author: Plato
       title: Phaedo
        date: None
       words: 43005
      flesch: 70
     summary: Besides, the philosopher has notions of good and evil unlike those of other men. This is the reason why he abstains from fleshly lusts, and not because he fears loss or disgrace, which is the motive of other men.
    keywords: argument; body; cebes; death; earth; existence; god; good; harmony; ideas; immortality; knowledge; life; man; men; mind; nature; phaedo; simmias; socrates; soul; things; time; world
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        item: #15 of 26
          id: 1672
      author: Plato
       title: Gorgias
        date: None
       words: 59620
      flesch: 74
     summary: Yes. SOCRATES: And do you call the fools and cowards good men? Yes, Callicles, they were good men, if, as you said at first, true virtue consists only in the satisfaction of our own desires and those of others; but if not, and if, as we were afterwards compelled to acknowledge, the satisfaction of some desires makes us better, and of others, worse, and we ought to gratify the one and not the other, and there is an art in distinguishing them,--can you tell me of any of these statesmen who did distinguish them? CALLICLES:
    keywords: answer; argument; art; arts; ask; callicles; death; evil; good; gorgias; injustice; life; man; mean; men; nature; plato; pleasure; polus; power; rhetoric; right; saying; socrates; soul; things; truth; way; words; world
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        item: #16 of 26
          id: 1673
      author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
       title: Lesser Hippias
        date: None
       words: 9440
      flesch: 67
     summary: SOCRATES: You see, Hippias, as I have already told you, how pertinacious I am in asking questions of wise men. (Compare Gorgias; Republic.) SOCRATES: Excellent Hippias, I do not do so intentionally (if I did, it would show me to be a wise man and a master of wiles, as you would argue), but unintentionally, and therefore you must pardon me; for, as you say, he who is unintentionally dishonest should be pardoned.
    keywords: achilles; good; hippias; man; odysseus; plato; socrates; writings
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        item: #17 of 26
          id: 1676
      author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
       title: Alcibiades I
        date: None
       words: 18733
      flesch: 79
     summary: Plainly, in the virtue of good men. SOCRATES: Who are good in what? ALCIBIADES: Then what is the meaning of being able to rule over men who use other men? ALCIBIADES:
    keywords: alcibiades; art; care; good; know; knowledge; man; men; plato; socrates; state; things; writings
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        item: #18 of 26
          id: 1677
      author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
       title: Alcibiades II
        date: None
       words: 5977
      flesch: 79
     summary: Good words, Socrates, prithee. SOCRATES: You ought not to bid him use auspicious words, who says that you would not be willing to commit so horrible a deed, but rather him who affirms the contrary, if the act appear to you unfit even to be mentioned. For some have begotten children who were utterly bad, and have therefore passed all their days in misery, while the parents of good children have undergone the misfortune of losing them, and have been so little happier than the others that they would have preferred never to have had children rather than to have had them and lost them.
    keywords: alcibiades; gods; good; man; prayer; socrates
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        item: #19 of 26
          id: 1681
      author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
       title: Eryxias
        date: None
       words: 7121
      flesch: 75
     summary: It appears to be clear that whatever constitutes wealth must be useful, and that wealth is one class of useful things; and now we have to enquire, What is the use of those useful things which constitute wealth? And do you think, said the youth, that doing good things is like building a house,--the work of human agency; or do things remain what they were at first, good or bad, for all time?
    keywords: critias; erasistratus; eryxias; good; socrates; things; wealth
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        item: #20 of 26
          id: 1682
      author: Plato
       title: Menexenus
        date: None
       words: 10174
      flesch: 61
     summary: He who has present to his mind that conflict will know what manner of men they were who received the onset of the barbarians at Marathon, and chastened the pride of the whole of Asia, and by the victory which they gained over the barbarians first taught other men that the power of the Persians was not invincible, but that hosts of men and the multitude of riches alike yield to valour. For government is the nurture of man, and the government of good men is good, and of bad men bad.
    keywords: athenians; barbarians; city; dialogues; good; hellenes; menexenus; plato; socrates; war; writings
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        item: #21 of 26
          id: 1687
      author: Plato
       title: Parmenides
        date: None
       words: 36230
      flesch: 75
     summary: But tell me, is your meaning that things become like by partaking of likeness, great by partaking of greatness, just and beautiful by partaking of justice and beauty, and so of other ideas?' Yet the fact of their being parts furnishes the others with a limit towards other parts and towards the whole; they are finite and also infinite: finite through participation in the one, infinite in their own nature.
    keywords: ideas; motion; number; parmenides; partake; parts; plato; relation; socrates; things; time; way; zeno
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        item: #22 of 26
          id: 1726
      author: Plato
       title: Theaetetus
        date: None
       words: 66182
      flesch: 69
     summary: And the world is full of men who are asking to be taught and willing to be ruled, and of other men who are willing to rule and teach them. Neither must we forget that in the use of the senses, as in his whole nature, man is a social being, who is always being educated by language, habit, and the teaching of other men as well as by his own observation.
    keywords: answer; argument; good; having; knowledge; knows; language; man; men; mind; motion; nature; opinion; perception; philosophy; plato; protagoras; question; right; sense; socrates; theaetetus; theodorus; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; words; world
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        item: #23 of 26
          id: 1735
      author: Plato
       title: Sophist
        date: None
       words: 45691
      flesch: 75
     summary: Yes. STRANGER: Take music in general and painting and marionette playing and many other things, which are purchased in one city, and carried away and sold in another--wares of the soul which are hawked about either for the sake of instruction or amusement;--may not he who takes them about and sells them be quite as truly called a merchant as he who sells meats and drinks? THEAETETUS: To be sure he may. STRANGER: The same may be said of other things; seeing that the nature of the other has a real existence, the parts of this nature must equally be supposed to exist.
    keywords: art; existence; good; great; hegel; ideas; knowledge; man; mean; mind; motion; nature; opinion; philosophy; plato; rest; sense; sophist; soul; stranger; theaetetus; things; thought; words; world
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        item: #24 of 26
          id: 1738
      author: Plato
       title: Statesman
        date: None
       words: 40342
      flesch: 73
     summary: Then there is a class which provides materials for all these, out of which and in which the arts already mentioned fabricate their works;--this manifold class, I say, which is the creation and offspring of many other arts, may I not rank sixth? Well, and are not arithmetic and certain other kindred arts, merely abstract knowledge, wholly separated from action? YOUNG SOCRATES: True. STRANGER:
    keywords: animals; art; arts; class; good; government; human; king; knowledge; law; laws; mean; men; nature; plato; power; royal; science; socrates; statesman; stranger; things; time; world
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        item: #25 of 26
          id: 1744
      author: Plato
       title: Philebus
        date: None
       words: 45601
      flesch: 73
     summary: In the Republic the pleasures of knowledge are affirmed to be superior to other pleasures, because the philosopher so estimates them; and he alone has had experience of both kinds. Am I not right in saying that they have a deeper want and greater pleasure in the satisfaction of their want? PROTARCHUS:
    keywords: class; good; happiness; infinite; knowledge; life; man; mean; mind; nature; opinion; pain; philebus; plato; pleasure; protarchus; right; socrates; things; truth; wisdom; world
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        item: #26 of 26
          id: 1750
      author: Plato
       title: Laws
        date: None
       words: 239976
      flesch: 67
     summary: It comes from the study of ourselves and other men: from moderation and experience: from reflection on circumstances: from the pursuit of high aims: from a right use of the opportunities of life. For no one either in life or after death has any right to deprive other men of the sustenance which mother earth provides for them.
    keywords: age; athenian; body; care; case; children; citizens; city; class; cleinias; country; day; death; education; evil; father; general; gods; good; great; guardians; honour; human; judges; justice; know; law; laws; legislator; life; magistrates; man; manner; matters; mean; megillus; men; mind; music; nature; number; order; pay; person; place; plato; pleasure; power; proceed; property; public; reason; republic; right; saying; second; slave; sort; soul; speak; state; stranger; things; think; time; truth; use; view; virtue; war; way; women; words; work; world; years
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