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- 1169
- author: Xenophon
- title: Agesilaus
- date: None
- words: 14201
- flesch: 77
- summary: Agesilaus fell into a silence, but presently exclaimed: No, by the Twins, not if I might this very instant become the swiftest-footed, strongest, and handsomest of men. Thereupon Agesilaus took his decision.
- keywords: agesilaus; allies; arms; army; asia; attack; aware; b.c; barbarians; battle; best; better; body; caria; cavalry; charge; cities; citizens; city; clough; corinth; country; day; days; death; division; earth; enemy; face; fact; fatherland; fellow; field; foe; foes; foll; forces; friends; friendship; general; god; gods; good; great; greater; hand; hell; hellas; hellenes; home; honour; horses; iii; infantry; kindness; king; lacedaemon; lacedaemonians; left; life; lines; lit; long; man; march; master; men; moment; money; needs; note; obedience; old; open; order; pass; persian; place; plain; plut; point; power; praise; private; rate; rear; right; round; rule; satrap; self; sense; service; set; soldiers; sort; soul; sparta; state; strength; thebans; things; time; tissaphernes; troopers; troops; victory; vii; virtue; war; way; wealth; world; xenophon
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- 1170
- author: Xenophon
- title: Anabasis
- date: None
- words: 95682
- flesch: 70
- summary: And as other men pride themselves on piety and truth and righteousness, so Menon prided himself on a capacity for fraud, on the fabrication of lies, on the mockery and scorn of friends. Xenophon and Cheirisophus arranged to recover the dead, and in return restored the guide; afterwards they did everything for the dead, according to the means at their disposal, with the customary honours paid to good men.
- keywords: able; account; achaean; advanced; advice; agasias; aid; alive; ambassadors; anaxibius; animals; answer; approach; arcadian; archers; ariaeus; aristarchus; armed; arms; army; arrows; asiatics; athenian; attack; attempt; b.c; bade; baggage; barbarians; battle; bear; beasts; behalf; best; better; board; bodies; body; boy; brave; bridge; brother; business; byzantium; camp; campaign; captains; carduchians; care; case; cavalry; centre; certain; chance; charge; cheirisophus; citadel; cities; city; cleander; cleanor; clearchus; close; coming; command; common; companies; company; conduct; continued; contrary; corn; counsel; country; course; cover; cross; crossed; crossing; cut; cyrus; danger; date; day; days; dead; death; deep; descent; deserted; desire; detachment; dexippus; direction; disposed; distance; district; division; effect; enemies; enemy; escape; euphrates; expedition; eyes; face; fact; fall; far; fashion; fate; favour; favourable; fear; feet; fellow; field; fighting; fine; fire; flight; foes; following; foot; force; fortune; forward; free; friendly; friends; friendship; furlongs; gates; generals; gifts; gods; gold; good; governor; great; greek; guard; guide; half; hand; head; headman; hearing; heart; heaven; heavy; heels; hellas; hellenes; hellenic; help; heraclea; heracleides; high; hills; hold; home; honour; hopes; hoplites; horsemen; horses; hospitality; hostile; infantry; informed; inhabitants; inside; instant; journey; keeping; king; lacedaemonians; land; large; lead; leading; leave; left; life; like; line; little; lives; long; longer; look; main; man; march; marching; market; matter; means; medosades; meet; meeting; men; menon; mere; message; midst; miles; minded; mischief; moment; money; mountain; narrow; nay; near; need; neon; news; note; number; numerous; obedience; object; officers; open; opinion; opposite; order; orontas; outside; parasangs; party; passage; past; pay; peltasts; people; persian; person; pieces; place; plain; pledges; plenty; point; portion; position; possible; power; present; property; proposal; provisions; proxenus; public; pursuit; quarters; question; ranks; rate; reach; ready; rear; rearguard; reason; report; resolution; rest; result; retreat; return; right; river; road; round; rule; run; running; sacrifice; safe; safety; sail; sake; sea; seaboard; second; service; set; seuthes; shields; ships; single; sinope; sirs; slaves; small; snow; soldiers; sort; speed; spite; stages; state; step; stones; stop; strength; strong; summit; supplies; sure; taking; terms; territory; terror; things; thought; thracians; tigris; timasion; time; tissaphernes; town; troops; truce; use; vessels; victims; victory; view; villages; voyage; want; war; watch; water; way; wine; women; wood; words; work; wounded; wrong; xenophon; years; yonder; young; zeus
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- 1171
- author: Xenophon
- title: The Apology
- date: None
- words: 4855
- flesch: 85
- summary: It suffices me to have shown on the one hand that Socrates, beyond everything, desired not to display impiety to heaven, [41] and injustice to men; and on the other, that escape from death was not a thing, in his opinion, to be clamoured for importunately--on the contrary, he believed that the time was already come for him to die. Me he likened not indeed to a god, but in excellence [27] preferred me far beyond other men.
- keywords: age; apol; apology; better; birds; case; death; defence; dind; diog; doubt; foll; footnote; friends; god; gods; good; great; hermogenes; iii; impiety; kai; laert; life; man; master; meletus; mem; men; opinion; penalty; people; place; plat; power; regard; rep; set; socrates; soul; state; thing; time; viii; words; xenophon; young
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- 1172
- author: Xenophon
- title: The Cavalry General
- date: None
- words: 13858
- flesch: 78
- summary: Next comes the need to arm both horse and man in such a manner as to minimise the risk of wounds, and yet to increase the force of every blow delivered. In this way every detail characteristic of knightly pageantry (9) will have been displayed to the delight of god and man.
- keywords: able; action; advance; anab; attack; b.c; battle; best; better; body; business; case; cavalry; charge; cit; command; commander; corps; country; courier; course; cyrop; duty; effect; enemy; exercise; fact; file; force; form; formation; gallop; general; gods; good; great; greater; ground; guard; head; heaven; hell; hipparch; honour; horsemanship; horses; hostile; iii; infantry; knights; large; leaders; like; line; main; man; march; martin; matter; mem; men; moment; need; number; officer; order; outposts; pains; phylarchs; place; plat; play; point; position; possible; quarters; rank; rear; rest; risk; senate; service; set; small; sort; squadron; state; superior; supposing; things; thuc; time; troopers; troops; turn; useful; vii; viii; war; way; word; work
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- 1173
- author: Xenophon
- title: The Economist
- date: None
- words: 38073
- flesch: 85
- summary: And the women too, Meno, call good men divine; and the Spartans, when they praise a good man, say, 'that he is a divine man' (Jowett). Yes, but believe me, Socrates, when I seek to appoint such men as bailiffs, I teach them also carefulness and application.
- keywords: able; agriculture; anab; answer; argument; aristoph; aristot; arts; attention; bailiff; beautiful; beauty; becker; beings; best; better; blame; body; breit; business; capable; care; carefulness; case; cattle; certain; chaff; cit; city; common; conduct; continued; corn; country; course; crit; critobulus; cyrus; day; days; desire; different; discussion; disposed; doubt; duty; earth; easy; economist; economy; estate; eyes; fact; fair; father; feet; field; floor; foll; form; free; friends; fruits; gain; general; georg; god; gods; good; great; greater; greatest; ground; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; heaven; heavy; hell; help; high; holden; home; honour; hope; horses; house; household; human; husbandry; ignorant; iii; increase; instance; interest; isch; ischomachus; justice; kind; kindly; king; knowledge; labour; land; large; laws; leader; life; like; little; live; living; loc; long; look; love; lysander; making; man; manure; march; master; matters; means; mem; men; mind; mistress; money; natural; nature; nay; necessary; need; new; noble; note; object; operations; opinion; order; pains; people; person; place; planting; plants; plat; play; point; pol; portion; possessions; possible; power; praise; present; property; question; reading; reason; regard; rep; rest; rich; right; rule; seed; self; service; set; share; ship; skill; skilled; slaves; soc; socrates; soil; sort; soul; sowing; spite; strength; sun; support; supposing; sure; tell; things; threshing; thuc; tillage; time; title; toil; training; trees; true; truth; turn; use; viii; war; water; way; wealth; wife; woman; word; work; worse; worth; xenophon; young
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- 1174
- author: Xenophon
- title: Hellenica
- date: None
- words: 126155
- flesch: 73
- summary: And now let us admonish you, they added, to be eager and willing in the future, even as in the past: whatever the word of command may be, show yourselves good men and true: let not the memory of those glorious sea fights fade. But our hope, our expectation should rather be that they will prove themselves good men and not base; since they beyond all others would seem persistently to have cherished a high endeavour, reaching forth after true praise, and holding aloof from ugly deeds.
- keywords: able; absence; abydos; acarnanians; accordance; account; achaeans; action; admiral; advanced; advancing; affairs; agesilaus; agis; aid; alcibiades; alliance; allies; ambassadors; anab; answer; approach; arcadians; archidamus; argives; argos; arguments; armed; arms; army; arrival; asia; assembly; assistance; athenians; athens; attack; attempt; authorities; aware; b.c; bade; base; battle; behalf; best; better; blow; board; bodies; body; boeotians; brave; brother; business; busolt; byzantium; callicratidas; campaign; capital; captains; capture; caria; case; cavalry; certain; chance; charge; chief; chios; citadel; cities; citizens; city; clear; cleombrotus; close; clough; coast; coming; command; common; conclusion; condition; conduct; conon; consequence; constitution; content; contingents; contrary; corinth; corinthians; corn; country; course; court; cover; crews; critias; cut; cyrus; date; day; days; dead; death; decree; deed; deep; defence; democracy; dercylidas; desire; despatch; determined; different; diod; dionysius; distance; district; division; duty; early; ears; effect; eleians; elis; embassy; empire; enemies; enemy; engaged; engagement; ephesus; ephors; escape; euphron; evening; events; exception; exiles; expedition; eyes; face; fact; fall; fate; father; favourable; fear; fellow; field; fleet; flight; foes; foll; following; foot; force; foreign; form; fortress; fortune; forward; free; freeman; friendly; friends; friendship; frontier; future; garrison; gates; general; geog; god; gods; good; government; governor; great; greece; grote; guard; gulf; half; hand; harbour; hard; head; hearing; heart; heavy; hell; hellas; hellenes; hellenic; hellespont; help; herod; hicks; high; hist; hold; home; honour; hoplites; horse; hostile; iii; incident; independent; infantry; inhabitants; instance; instant; instructions; intention; interests; invasion; iphicrates; island; jason; jebb; jowett; justice; keeping; king; lacedaemonians; laconian; land; large; late; law; lead; leaders; league; leave; leaving; lechaeum; left; length; life; like; line; list; lit; little; live; long; longer; look; loss; lysander; main; majority; man; mantineans; march; marching; market; matter; meal; means; meeting; meidias; members; men; mercenaries; miles; military; mind; missiles; moment; money; months; morea; morning; mss; names; natural; naval; navy; near; need; new; news; note; number; numerous; oaths; obedience; object; occasion; officer; old; olynthus; open; opponents; opposite; order; outside; parties; party; pass; passage; past; paus; pausanias; pay; pellene; peltasts; people; period; persian; person; personal; pharnabazus; phliasians; phlius; pick; piraeus; place; plut; point; pol; polemarchs; policy; portion; position; possible; pounds; power; preparations; prepared; presence; present; prisoners; private; proceedings; property; proposal; public; pursuit; quarters; question; quiet; reach; reading; ready; rear; reason; reference; regard; report; rescue; resolution; rest; result; retire; retreat; return; rhodes; right; river; road; round; sacred; sacrifice; safe; sail; sailing; sailors; samos; satrap; sea; second; self; senate; sending; service; set; share; shields; ships; sicyon; single; sirs; slain; slaves; small; soldiers; solemn; son; sort; sparta; spartans; speed; sphodrias; spite; spithridates; spot; spring; squadron; stades; stand; state; step; stones; story; strength; strong; success; supplies; support; sword; syracusan; talents; tegea; teleutias; temple; terms; territory; thebans; thebes; theramenes; thespiae; thessaly; thibron; things; thought; thrasybulus; thuc; time; tissaphernes; town; treaty; trial; triremes; troops; trophy; truce; turn; vessels; victims; victory; view; viii; visit; vol; vote; voyage; walls; war; watch; way; wealth; wife; willing; wind; winter; words; work; world; wrong; xenophon; xiv; year; young; zeal
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- 1175
- author: Xenophon
- title: Hiero
- date: None
- words: 15373
- flesch: 82
- summary: yet he only of all men is never allowed to go on a journey, or to see things which other free men desire to see; but he lives in his hole like a woman hidden in the house, and is jealous of any other citizen who goes into foreign parts and sees things of interest (Jowett). Simonides made answer: Yes, I must indeed admit, I do concede to you, that praise alone is sweetest which is breathed from lips of free men absolutely free.
- keywords: affection; anab; aristot; arms; athens; beauty; beings; benefit; body; breit; case; certain; citizens; city; cobet; common; confidence; day; death; dem; desire; despotic; distinction; dread; drinks; duty; einai; enemies; evil; expenses; eyes; fact; fair; fear; foll; force; free; friends; friendship; gar; general; gods; good; greater; guard; hands; happiness; hard; heart; hell; hiero; high; holden; home; honour; human; iii; joy; joys; kai; laws; life; like; little; love; man; mankind; matters; means; mem; men; mind; mischief; monarch; money; mortal; nay; need; number; objects; ordinary; pains; passion; pay; peace; people; person; plat; pleasure; plut; point; pol; power; praise; present; principle; private; prizes; public; rate; reading; reason; respect; rest; revenues; ruler; sake; sense; service; set; sight; simonides; slaves; sort; soul; sounds; state; subjects; sweet; sweetest; terror; things; thuc; time; tis; tois; ton; tous; transl; true; tyrant; viands; vii; viii; virtue; war; wars; watch; way; wife; word; work; xenophon
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- 1176
- author: Xenophon
- title: On Horsemanship
- date: None
- words: 13989
- flesch: 80
- summary: How can a troop of horses be kept free of one another, if driven in this fashion from behind?--whereas a horse accustomed to be led from the side will have least power of mischief to horse or man, and at the same time be in the best position to be mounted by the rider at a moment's notice, were it necessary. Another point to ascertain is whether the horse, when mounted, can be induced to leave other horses, or when being ridden past a group of horses standing, will not bolt off to join the company.
- keywords: able; action; animal; arm; belly; best; better; bit; body; broad; case; cavalry; close; colt; corselet; courier; course; creature; dind; effect; face; fact; feet; food; foot; forward; gallop; general; good; groom; ground; hand; hard; head; help; high; hold; home; hoof; horse; horsemanship; human; iii; instant; kai; large; leap; left; legs; like; little; long; man; mane; matter; moment; morgan; mouth; neck; need; parts; place; point; position; possible; purchaser; reading; reason; rein; rest; result; rider; right; schneid; seat; set; shoulder; smooth; sort; sound; spear; spirit; spirited; stable; supple; supposing; tail; thick; thighs; time; ton; training; turn; type; view; viii; war; way; wish; work; xenophon; young
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- 1177
- author: Xenophon
- title: The Memorabilia
- date: None
- words: 70980
- flesch: 82
- summary: (24) And once more, habits of indolence, along with the fleeting pleasures of the moment, are incapable, as gymnastic trainers say, of setting up (25) a good habit of body, or of implanting in the soul any knowledge worthy of account; whereas by painstaking endeavour in the pursuit of high and noble deeds, as good men tell us, through endurance we shall in the end attain the goal. Immortal, thou art cast forth from the company of gods, and by good men art dishonoured: that sweetest sound of all, the voice of praise, has never thrilled thine ears; and the fairest of all fair visions is hidden from thine eyes that have never beheld one bounteous deed wrought by thine own hand.
- keywords: ability; able; account; accuser; action; advantage; advice; affairs; age; alc; alcibiades; ambition; answer; antiphon; antisthenes; apol; archedemus; argument; aristippus; aristot; art; athenians; athens; attention; aught; aware; bad; base; battle; beautiful; beauty; beings; belief; benefit; best; better; blessings; body; brother; business; capable; care; case; cavalry; certain; chaer; chance; character; charicles; charm; children; cic; citizens; city; clear; cobet; cold; command; common; companions; condition; conduct; contrary; control; conversation; courage; course; creatures; cri; critias; crito; critobulus; day; days; dealing; death; deed; definition; desire; different; diog; discussion; disposed; distinction; divine; doubt; draw; duty; ears; earth; easy; eating; econ; effect; endeavour; enemies; enemy; escape; euth; euthydemus; evil; existence; eyes; face; fact; fail; fall; father; feet; fellow; fire; foll; following; food; form; fortune; free; freedom; friends; friendship; gain; general; glaucon; gods; good; good man; gorg; great; greater; greatest; habit; half; hand; happiness; hard; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; heracles; hermogenes; hesiod; high; hipp; hippias; hold; honour; hope; house; human; hunger; ignorance; ignorant; iii; ill; incapable; instance; joel; judgment; justice; kai; kindly; kindness; knowledge; known; kuhner; laert; lamp; land; language; large; law; lawful; laws; lead; learning; lies; life; like; lips; lit; little; living; loc; long; look; love; makes; making; man; mankind; manner; matter; means; men; mere; method; mind; moment; money; mother; natural; nature; nay; need; newman; nic; noble; note; number; obedience; obey; object; occasion; office; opinion; opposite; order; pains; parents; particular; passage; passim; passion; path; people; pericles; person; place; plain; plat; play; pleasure; plut; point; pol; politics; poor; possession; possible; power; praise; pray; present; prime; private; property; proportion; pros; public; purpose; pursuit; question; reading; ready; reason; reference; regard; rep; respect; rest; return; right; righteous; road; rule; sake; secret; self; sense; sentence; service; set; similar; single; skill; slavery; slaves; small; soc; society; socrates; sort; soul; sound; speech; spirit; stand; state; statement; strength; strong; study; style; sun; sure; symp; tell; theod; things; thirst; thought; time; toil; training; true; truth; turn; unjust; upright; useful; victory; view; viii; violence; virtue; want; war; way; wealth; wisdom; wise; wish; wit; word; work; worse; worth; wrong; xen; xii; young; youth
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- 1178
- author: Xenophon
- title: The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
- date: None
- words: 20025
- flesch: 79
- summary: See Aristot. (7) But being of so long standing, these laws, even at this day, still are stamped in the eyes of other men with all the novelty of youth.
- keywords: affairs; age; allies; aristot; arms; army; athenians; athens; b.c; base; battle; better; blessings; body; boeckh; boys; business; case; children; citizens; city; civil; class; clough; command; common; courts; custom; day; democracy; dindorf; duty; education; emendation; enemy; ephors; exercise; face; fact; foll; food; force; form; free; general; good; greater; hand; heavy; hell; hellas; hold; home; honour; iii; infantry; instance; island; jebb; jowett; judges; justice; kai; king; kirchhoff; lacedaemonians; land; laws; left; legislator; life; like; line; lit; living; loc; long; lycurgus; man; matter; means; members; men; mess; mind; money; muller; need; note; number; obedience; old; open; order; passage; people; persons; place; plat; plut; point; pol; polity; possible; power; present; principle; public; question; reading; reason; reference; regard; rest; right; rule; sacrifice; schneider; sea; service; set; single; slaves; sort; sparta; speech; state; strength; things; thuc; time; type; viii; virtue; vol; war; way; wealth; words; world; xen; xenophon; year
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- 1179
- author: Xenophon
- title: On Revenues
- date: None
- words: 9602
- flesch: 76
- summary: Lastly, while the majority of states have barbarian neighbours, the source of many troubles, Athens has as her next-door neighbours civilised states which are themselves far remote from the barbarians. Or when states are sick, (7) either through barrenness of corn and other fruits, or through war, the demand for current coin is even more imperative (whilst the ground lies unproductive), to pay for necessaries or military aid.
- keywords: aliens; athenian; athens; attica; b.c; better; boeckh; capital; case; cent; certain; citizens; city; class; comm; contrary; date; day; desire; drachmae; effect; eng; fact; find; force; good; greater; hands; hellas; houses; human; increase; kai; land; large; market; men; mines; mining; money; new; note; number; operations; ore; outlay; peace; people; plan; point; possible; present; principle; private; property; public; question; reading; resident; revenue; right; scheme; sea; set; silver; slaves; soil; sources; state; sum; thuc; time; view; viii; war; works; world; xenophon; year; zurborg
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- 1180
- author: Xenophon
- title: The Sportsman: On Hunting, a Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus
- date: None
- words: 23462
- flesch: 86
- summary: (12) {akroleniois}, elbows, Pollux, v. 29; al. {akroliniois}, L. & S., on the edges or borders. (19) Reading {tremousi}, fall a-trembling; al. {atremousi}, stand stock-still; i.e. are dwellers.
- keywords: advance; age; animal; aristot; arms; arrian; attack; bad; bark; base; battle; best; better; black; boar; body; breed; business; capture; care; chase; cheiron; clear; clog; close; creature; cry; day; days; deep; deer; depth; different; dind; direction; distance; dogs; early; ears; earth; end; eur; eyes; face; fact; fall; far; father; fear; feet; field; find; fix; follow; following; food; foot; fore; form; forward; game; general; gods; good; great; ground; hand; hard; hare; haye; head; heat; hellas; hind; hold; hom; hot; hounds; hunting; huntsman; iii; inches; javelins; kai; keeper; kind; lands; large; lead; left; legs; length; lenz; lie; light; like; line; loc; long; lower; master; means; mem; men; mere; moment; mountains; nature; nestor; nets; nooses; nose; number; order; orthos; pack; paths; paus; pind; place; plain; plat; plut; points; pollux; private; quarry; reading; rest; road; rope; rule; run; running; s.v; scent; schneid; season; set; sheer; single; slip; small; snow; soft; soil; sophist; sort; spear; sportsman; spring; start; stonehenge; stout; strab; straight; strong; sturz; summer; sun; taking; thick; things; time; toil; ton; tongue; tracks; trail; training; true; turn; view; viii; virtue; want; way; wild; wind; winter; wood; words; work; xenophon; xiii; young
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- 1181
- author: Xenophon
- title: The Symposium
- date: None
- words: 23101
- flesch: 90
- summary: xi. 831; Hunting, ch. i., as to Cheiron and his scholars, the last of whom is Achilles. (47) {an periepoito}. Cf. Herod. ii. 48; Lucian lxxii.,
- keywords: able; antisthenes; aphrodite; aristoph; aristot; art; athen; autolycus; aware; b.c; battle; beautiful; beauty; beloved; best; better; boast; body; boy; business; callias; care; certain; character; charmides; city; claim; cleinias; clouds; cobet; company; course; critobulus; dance; dancing; day; dinner; dionysus; doubt; drink; ears; econ; exercise; eyes; face; fair; father; feast; fell; fellow; flute; foll; frere; friends; friendship; girl; gods; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; hermogenes; homer; honour; host; house; human; iii; jester; kai; kiss; knowledge; lac; laws; legs; life; light; lips; long; look; love; lucian; lycon; man; master; mem; men; mind; money; nature; nay; need; niceratus; noble; nose; object; party; passion; pay; people; person; phaedr; philippus; plat; pleasure; plut; point; pol; poor; power; present; pride; pros; reading; reason; rep; rest; self; set; sirs; socrates; sort; soul; speech; spirit; state; sweet; symp; syr; syracusan; things; thuc; time; transl; true; turn; viii; virtue; voice; want; wealth; wine; wisdom; wish; words; work; world; worth; xen; xenophon; xiv; zeune
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- 14752
- author: None
- title: The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Stories from the Classics
- date: None
- words: 134053
- flesch: 82
- summary: Put away therefore your anger, for ye shall find us so much the better husbands than other men, as we must be to you not for husbands only but parents also and native country. And I have my full share of trouble as it is, for I have lost the best master in all the world and must sit here to mourn for him and fatten his swine for other men, while he is wandering somewhere in foreign lands, hungry and thirsty perhaps, if he is still alive at all.
- keywords: achaians; achilles; afraid; agamemnon; ajax; alfred; anchises; answer; antilochus; antinous; apollo; appius; arion; armor; arms; army; arrow; ascanius; assembly; athene; bade; bare; battle; baucis; bear; bearing; beasts; beautiful; beauty; bed; beggar; behold; best; better; bid; bird; black; blood; blow; bodies; body; bosom; bow; bowl; boy; brave; break; breakfast; breast; breath; bright; broad; broken; bronze; brother; build; camp; care; cast; cause; cave; cease; ceres; certain; chamber; change; chariot; chief; child; children; church; circe; citadel; city; cloak; close; coming; companions; company; comrades; cottage; counsel; country; courage; course; covered; crew; crowd; cruel; cry; crying; cup; cyclops; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deeds; deep; desire; dido; divine; dogs; doom; door; dost; doubt; drink; driving; drove; dust; dwelt; eager; earth; enemy; escape; eumæus; eurylochus; evening; evil; eyed; eyes; face; fair; fall; fallen; famous; far; fate; father; fear; feast; feet; field; fierce; fight; fire; flame; flesh; flowers; fly; followers; fond; food; foot; footed; force; form; free; friends; funeral; games; garden; garments; gate; giant; gifts; girl; glad; glorious; glory; goats; goddess; gods; gold; golden; good; goodly; great; greater; greece; greeks; green; grief; ground; grown; guard; guests; hades; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hard; hast; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavy; hecate; hector; helen; helmet; help; hero; heroes; hidden; hide; high; hills; hither; hold; hollow; home; honor; hope; horses; host; hot; hour; house; huge; human; husband; image; immortal; iron; island; italy; ithaca; josephine; journey; joy; juno; jupiter; kind; kindly; king; king ulysses; kingdom; knees; knowing; known; ladronius; lady; lake; land; large; latins; law; laws; lead; leave; left; length; lie; life; like; lion; little; live; living; lofty; long; look; lord; lost; loud; love; lovely; magic; maiden; making; man; manner; marble; mars; marygold; master; means; men; menelaus; midas; midst; mighty; milk; mind; mischief; miserable; moment; morning; mortal; mother; mount; music; native; nay; near; neck; need; neptune; nestor; new; noble; nurse; nymphs; oak; oars; old; old man; olympus; open; order; orpheus; pair; palace; pallas; paris; past; patroclus; peabody; peace; peep; peleus; penelope; people; periander; phaethon; philemon; phoebus; pitcher; pity; play; pleasant; pluto; pomegranate; poor; power; prayer; precious; preston; pretty; priam; prince; princess; prize; promise; proserpina; purple; purpose; queen; quicksilver; race; reach; ready; rest; return; rich; river; rock; romans; rome; romulus; room; royal; run; running; sacred; sacrifice; safe; sail; saw; saying; sea; search; seat; second; set; shame; shield; shining; ship; shore; shot; shoulders; sibyl; single; sister; skill; sky; slain; slay; sleep; slew; small; smile; smoke; soldiers; son; song; sons; sorrow; sort; soul; sound; spake; spear; speed; spirit; splendid; spoil; spot; staff; stand; standing; steps; stones; stories; story; stranger; stream; strength; strong; suitors; sun; sunshine; supper; sweet; swift; swineherd; sword; table; talk; tall; taste; tears; telemachus; tell; temple; terrible; thee; thetis; thick; thine; things; thinking; thou; thought; threshold; thrice; throne; thy; time; touch; town; traveler; treasure; tree; tried; trojans; trouble; troy; true; truth; turnus; ulysses; vain; venus; vessel; victory; village; virginius; voice; vulcan; wait; walls; wandering; war; warrior; watch; water; wave; way; wealth; weary; weeping; welcome; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; wilt; wind; wine; winged; wings; wise; wish; women; wonder; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worth; wrath; wrong; year; yellow; young; youth; zeus; æneas
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- 1497
- author: Plato
- title: The Republic
- date: None
- words: 217644
- flesch: 69
- summary: In one passage Plato himself seems to intimate that the time had now come for Socrates, who had passed his whole life in philosophy, to give his own opinion and not to be always repeating the notions of other men. Adeimantus said: 'Suppose a person to argue, Socrates, that you make your citizens miserable, and this by their own free-will; they are the lords of the city, and yet instead of having, like other men, lands and houses and money of their own, they live as mercenaries and are always mounting guard.'
- keywords: able; absolute; abstract; abstraction; account; action; actual; adeimantus; advantage; affected; afraid; age; ages; aim; analogy; ancient; angry; animals; answer; appearance; apt; argument; aristotle; arms; art; artist; arts; asclepius; astronomy; attempt; authority; aware; bad; battle; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; behold; benefit; best; better; birth; blind; bodies; bodily; body; book; brothers; business; captain; care; carpenter; case; cast; causes; cephalus; certain; change; character; children; choice; choose; christian; church; circumstances; cities; citizens; city; civilized; class; classes; clear; clearness; colours; command; common; community; companions; company; comparison; conception; concerned; conclusion; condition; constitution; contemplation; contradiction; contrary; control; corresponding; corruption; country; courage; course; creation; cubed; cure; danger; daughter; day; days; dead; dear; death; defence; definition; degree; democracy; den; description; desire; determined; dialectic; dialogues; differences; different; difficulty; direction; discussion; disease; disposed; distance; distinct; distinction; distinguished; divided; divine; division; doctrine; dogs; doubt; dream; drink; drinking; drones; duties; duty; early; earnest; earth; easy; eating; education; effect; elements; end; ends; enemies; enemy; enquiry; equal; error; escape; essence; ethics; evil; example; excellence; excess; exercise; existence; experience; explanation; expression; external; eyes; face; fact; faculties; faculty; fair; fairest; fall; fallen; false; falsehood; family; famous; fancy; far; father; fault; fear; feeling; fiction; figure; final; finger; fire; fixed; follow; following; food; force; form; foundation; fourth; frame; freedom; friend; future; gain; general; generation; genius; gentle; geometry; gifts; giving; glaucon; god; gods; gold; good; good man; goodness; government; great; greater; greatest; greek; ground; growth; guardians; guilty; gymnastic; habit; half; hand; happiness; happy; harmonies; harmony; having; head; health; hearing; heart; heaven; heavenly; hellas; hellenes; hellenic; help; heroes; hesiod; higher; highest; history; hold; homer; honour; honourable; hope; hour; house; human; human life; hypotheses; idea; ideal state; ignorance; ignorant; ill; illustration; image; imaginary; imagination; imitation; imitator; immortal; imperfect; important; incapable; inclined; increase; individual; inferior; influence; injustice; intellectual; intelligence; interest; intermediate; interval; iron; journey; judge; judgment; justice; kinds; kingdom; knowing; knowledge; labour; land; language; large; later; law; laws; lead; learning; leave; left; legislator; length; lesser; level; liable; liberty; lie; life; like; likely; likeness; limit; literature; little; lives; longer; look; looking; lost; lot; love; lovers; lying; maker; making; man; mankind; manner; marriage; mathematical; matter; mean; meaning; meanness; measure; medicine; men; mention; mere; method; middle; military; mind; miserable; misery; mistaken; modern; moment; money; monster; moral; morality; mother; multitude; music; mythology; names; narrative; nations; natural; nature; nay; near; nearer; necessary; necessity; need; new; noble; note; notion; number; numerous; objects; occasion; offer; office; offspring; old; oligarchical; oligarchy; ones; opinion; opposed; opposite; order; ordinary; original; pain; painter; parents; particular; passage; passing; passion; passionate; past; pattern; pay; people; perceive; perfect; perfect state; perfection; period; persons; phaedrus; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physical; physician; picture; pilot; place; plato; platonic; play; pleasure; poetry; poets; point; polemarchus; political; politics; poor; popular; position; possession; possibility; possible; power; practice; praise; present; previous; principle; private; proceeds; process; produce; profitable; proof; property; proportion; pure; purpose; pursuits; pythagorean; qualities; quality; quarrel; question; race; rational; reach; ready; real; reality; reason; received; reflection; regard; region; relation; relative; religion; religious; remains; remark; reply; republic; reputation; respect; result; return; reverse; revolution; rewards; rhythm; rich; riches; ridiculous; right; roman; royal; ruin; rulers; ruling; run; sacrifices; sake; satisfied; saying; scale; science; search; second; seeing; seen; self; sense; servant; service; set; shadows; share; sheep; shows; silver; similar; simple; simplicity; single; sixth; skill; slavery; slaves; small; social; society; socrates; soldiers; solid; sophist; sorrow; sort; soul; sounds; spartan; speaking; special; speech; sphere; spindle; spirit; spirited; square; stars; state; statesman; step; strain; strange; strength; stronger; study; style; subject; sum; sun; superior; supposing; sweet; system; tale; taste; temperance; terms; things; thinking; thirst; thought; thrasymachus; timaeus; time; timocracy; trade; tragedy; training; trouble; true; true nature; truth; turn; turning; tyrannical; tyranny; tyrant; unable; understanding; unity; universal; unjust; unjust man; unknown; unlike; upper; upwards; use; useful; useless; utterly; value; vice; view; virtue; visible; wall; want; war; warrior; wave; way; ways; weaker; weakness; wicked; wild; willing; wisdom; wise; wish; women; wonder; words; work; world; worse; worth; writers; writings; wrong; years; yes; young; young man; youth; zeus
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- 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: acropolis; ancient; athens; atlantis; baths; centre; children; citizens; city; common; country; critias; days; divine; docks; dwelt; earth; egyptian; generations; gods; gold; great; horses; husbandmen; indulgence; interior; island; kings; largest; laws; left; life; like; lot; man; manner; men; mountains; names; nature; number; order; orichalcum; pair; palace; plain; plato; poseidon; priests; rest; round; sea; silver; size; socrates; soil; solon; stadia; tale; temple; things; timaeus; time; true; use; virtue; war; water; way; width; women; world; zones
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- 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: able; account; acid; affections; air; akin; ancient; animal; aristotle; atlantis; attraction; bad; beginning; belly; best; better; bile; black; blood; bodies; body; bone; breath; bright; causes; centre; certain; chaos; children; circle; citizens; city; class; cold; colour; common; conception; courses; creation; creator; critias; cut; day; degree; dialogues; different; difficulty; direction; discourse; diseases; disorders; diverse; divided; divine; doctrine; double; early; earth; education; egypt; egyptian; elements; end; entire; equal; equilateral; essence; eternal; evil; example; existence; explanation; expression; eye; eyes; facts; fairest; famous; fashioned; father; figures; fire; fixed; flesh; following; food; form; fourth; framed; free; future; general; generation; god; gods; good; great; greater; greatest; greek; half; hand; harmony; head; hearing; heat; heaven; heavenly; heavy; help; higher; human; ideas; image; immortal; incapable; infinite; influence; inner; intelligence; intelligible; intermediate; internal; intervals; invisible; island; kindred; kinds; knowledge; language; larger; laws; left; lesser; life; light; like; liquid; little; liver; living; longer; makes; man; mankind; manner; marrow; mass; matter; mean; meaning; medicine; meet; mind; modern; moisture; moon; mortal; motion; mouth; movement; music; narrative; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; need; number; objects; old; opinion; opposite; order; original; outer; pain; particles; parts; pass; passage; pattern; perfect; person; phaedrus; phenomena; philosophers; philosophy; phlegm; physical; physics; place; planets; plato; pleasure; point; pores; portions; possible; power; present; principle; prior; probability; probable; process; proportion; pure; pythagorean; question; race; rational; real; reason; received; regular; relation; remaining; remains; remark; republic; respiration; rest; return; revolution; revolving; round; salt; science; second; seed; self; sensation; sense; sensible; sides; similar; sinews; single; skin; small; smaller; smooth; socrates; solid; solon; sort; soul; source; space; sphere; spirit; stars; state; story; stream; subject; substance; sun; surface; tale; tendency; theory; things; thought; timaeus; time; tongue; tradition; triangles; true; truth; unequal; union; universe; vacuum; veins; view; visible; war; water; way; white; words; work; world; years; yesterday
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- 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: answer; argument; bad; beloved; body; boys; case; congenial; course; ctesippus; dear; desire; enemy; evil; father; friend; friendship; good; great; hated; health; hippothales; knowledge; like; love; lysis; man; manner; mean; medicine; menexenus; mind; mother; nature; object; old; person; presence; question; reason; return; right; sake; saying; socrates; son; sort; sure; things; time; true; truth; unlike; use; value; want; way; white; wisdom; wise; words; wrong
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- 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: able; ancient; answer; argument; aristotle; art; author; balliol; beautiful; beauty; best; better; body; business; cases; certain; character; charmides; class; college; common; critias; cure; definition; dialogues; different; difficulty; edition; effect; element; english; evil; fellow; form; friend; general; good; great; greater; greek; grote; hand; happy; head; health; ideas; introductions; jackson; kind; knowledge; language; later; laws; life; like; likely; making; man; matter; meaning; medicine; mind; modern; modesty; nature; new; noble; notion; object; opinion; order; original; parmenides; philebus; philosophy; physician; place; plato; platonic; point; professor; question; quietness; reader; relation; republic; right; science; second; self; sense; sentence; similar; socrates; sophist; sort; soul; spirit; state; style; subject; temperance; theory; things; thought; time; translation; true; truth; use; vision; want; way; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; writings
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- 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: actions; armour; art; ask; best; better; children; courage; courageous; education; endurance; evil; father; fear; fighting; friend; future; general; good; great; hope; knowledge; laches; like; lysimachus; man; matter; melesias; men; mode; nature; nicias; noble; old; opinion; past; present; quality; question; reason; saying; socrates; sons; soothsayer; sort; teachers; terrible; things; time; true; virtue; war; way; willing; wisdom; words; young
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- 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: able; alcibiades; answer; argument; art; assent; bad; best; better; callias; capable; case; character; common; companion; company; confident; conversation; courageous; day; dialogue; different; difficulty; discussion; doubt; evil; example; face; flute; folly; friend; good; good man; great; greater; greek; hand; hard; help; hippias; hippocrates; holiness; honourable; house; human; ignorance; ignorant; justice; knowledge; lacedaemonians; life; like; long; love; man; mankind; manner; meaning; means; men; mind; mistaken; money; names; nature; opinion; opposite; order; pain; painful; parts; philosophy; physician; pittacus; plato; pleasant; pleasure; poem; poets; point; political; praise; private; prodicus; profession; protagoras; question; ready; reason; rest; right; saying; simonides; socrates; sons; sophist; sort; soul; speech; state; strength; teachers; temperance; things; thought; time; true; truth; use; view; virtue; want; way; wisdom; wise; wish; words; world; young
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- 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: able; ancient; animals; answer; argument; art; better; brother; business; certain; class; cleinias; conclusion; contradiction; crito; ctesippus; desire; dialogue; different; dionysodorus; disciples; euthydemus; evil; fallacies; father; fortune; general; gold; good; good things; great; happiness; happy; heracles; hope; kingly; knowledge; language; learn; learning; letters; life; like; logic; makes; making; man; manner; master; mean; meaning; men; mind; money; nature; new; opinion; person; philosophy; plato; point; possession; power; present; quality; question; rest; right; saying; science; sense; silent; socrates; sophists; sort; speaking; speeches; strangers; study; subject; teachers; things; thought; time; true; truth; use; virtue; vision; way; wisdom; wise; words; young; youth
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- 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: actions; affection; agathon; age; alcibiades; animals; answer; aphrodite; apollodorus; aristodemus; aristophanes; art; ashamed; attendant; banquet; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beloved; best; better; birth; body; cause; certain; character; children; common; company; compare; conversation; custom; day; days; desire; different; diotima; discourse; dishonour; divine; drink; drinking; earth; elements; eryximachus; eternal; everlasting; evil; existence; fair; fairest; father; feet; flute; form; friend; friendship; future; general; god love; gods; good; great; greatest; greek; half; hands; happiness; harmony; head; heavenly; hiccough; highest; homer; honour; honourable; human; ignorance; immortality; knowledge; laugh; left; life; like; long; love; lovers; making; male; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; medicine; men; mind; mortal; mother; music; nature; new; noble; old; open; order; original; parents; pausanias; person; phaedrus; philosophy; physician; place; plato; poetry; poets; possession; power; praise; present; principle; question; ready; reason; right; round; sacrifices; sake; sense; similar; socrates; sort; soul; speech; speeches; state; symposium; tale; things; thought; time; true; true love; truth; turn; union; virtue; want; way; wisdom; wise; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; yesterday; young; youth; zeus
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- 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: abstract; accent; action; aei; ages; air; alpha; altered; analogy; analysis; anaxagoras; ancient; animals; answer; apo; arete; argument; astyanax; athene; aware; bad; barbarians; beauty; beginning; best; better; body; case; causes; certain; change; character; colour; common; compare; conscious; convention; correctness; course; cratylus; custom; day; deal; degrees; delta; derivation; desire; dialectician; dialogue; differences; different; difficulty; disguised; doctrine; earth; element; english; enquiry; epsilon; essence; eta; etymologies; euphony; euthyphro; example; existence; explanation; expression; fact; false; falsehood; father; fear; figure; fitness; flux; foreign; form; formation; friend; general; giver; giving; gods; good; grammar; great; greater; greatest; greek; growth; half; hand; heracleitus; hermes; hermogenes; hesiod; higher; history; homer; horse; human; ideas; image; imitation; imperfect; impossible; individual; influence; instinct; instrument; intelligible; iota; justice; kakia; kind; king; knowledge; language; later; laws; legislator; length; letters; life; like; likely; literature; little; long; longer; look; making; man; manner; matter; meaning; means; men; mere; mind; modern; moment; motion; names; natural; nature; need; new; notions; nouns; number; objects; old; omicron; opinion; opposite; order; organs; origin; original; parts; perfect; person; phaedrus; philology; philosophers; philosophy; picture; place; plato; poetry; poets; point; poor; power; present; previous; primary; primitive; principle; process; progress; proper; proposition; prose; protagoras; purpose; quasi; question; race; real; reason; relation; remark; rest; result; rho; right; rules; running; saying; science; sense; sentence; shuttle; similar; single; skilled; socrates; son; sophist; sort; soul; sound; speaker; speech; state; stream; study; subject; sun; sure; syllables; teacher; term; theory; things; thought; time; tongue; tou; true; true names; truth; understanding; use; uses; verbs; view; vocal; vowels; want; way; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; writers; writing; wrong; zeus
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- 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: able; art; arts; bad; best; better; charioteer; different; divine; example; festival; general; god; good; hesiod; homer; inspiration; inspired; interpreters; ion; judge; knowledge; man; men; mind; passages; poetry; poets; power; prophet; reason; rhapsode; right; rings; socrates; speaker; things; true; way; words; work
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- 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: able; afraid; age; ages; ancient; animal; answer; arguments; art; author; bad; beauty; beginning; beholds; beloved; best; better; body; case; certain; character; charioteer; class; company; compare; composition; conception; conversation; country; day; days; dear; desire; dialectic; dialogue; different; difficulty; discourse; divine; earnest; earth; element; error; evil; example; existence; eyes; face; fair; fall; feeling; figure; following; form; friend; friendship; future; genius; god; gods; good; grasshoppers; great; greater; greatest; greek; head; heaven; help; higher; holy; honour; horse; hour; human; ideas; ignorant; image; immortal; inspiration; inspired; interest; judgment; justice; kind; knowledge; language; law; laws; left; length; life; like; likely; literary; literature; little; lives; living; long; love; lovers; lysias; madness; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; meaning; men; mind; modern; muses; names; natural; nature; new; noble; non; notion; old; opinion; orator; order; parts; passion; past; person; phaedrus; philosophy; place; plato; platonic; pleasure; poetry; point; power; prayer; present; principles; probability; question; rational; read; real; reason; recollection; republic; rest; return; rhetoric; rhetoricians; right; round; rules; saw; saying; second; self; sense; similar; socrates; sort; soul; speaker; speaking; speech; speeches; state; steeds; study; subject; superior; symposium; tale; temperance; things; thought; time; tree; true; truth; use; view; vision; want; way; ways; winged; wings; wisdom; wise; words; work; world; writer; writing; years; young; youth; zeus
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- 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: act; action; art; attention; better; dear; definition; differences; euthyphro; father; fear; friend; gods; good; great; holiness; holy; impiety; impious; justice; like; man; meletus; men; murder; murderer; nature; piety; pious; question; reason; religion; reverence; socrates; sort; state; things; time; true; truth; way; words
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- 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: action; ancient; answer; anytus; athenian; better; boy; cause; certain; colour; common; compare; conception; definition; desire; dialogue; different; difficulty; divine; doctrine; double; enquiry; equal; evil; existence; experience; facts; feet; figure; form; friend; general; god; good; gorgias; great; guide; higher; human; ideas; justice; knowledge; life; like; line; man; manner; mean; meaning; meno; mind; modern; nature; new; notion; old; opinion; order; phaedo; phaedrus; philosophy; place; plato; power; previous; profitable; protagoras; question; reason; relation; republic; right; round; saying; science; sense; single; socrates; sophists; sort; soul; space; spinoza; square; state; statesmen; teachers; teaching; temperance; theory; things; thought; time; true; truth; useful; virtue; way; wisdom; woman; words; world
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- 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: absolute; admit; afraid; air; animals; answer; approach; argument; beauty; beginning; belief; best; better; birth; bodily; body; care; cause; cebes; certain; cold; company; compare; conception; course; crito; day; dead; death; desire; dialogue; die; different; difficulty; divine; doctrine; dying; earth; echecrates; elements; equality; essence; eternal; evil; example; existence; experience; eye; eyes; fear; feeling; fire; form; friends; future; general; generation; god; gods; good; great; greater; greatness; harmony; heat; heaven; higher; hope; human; ideas; immortality; imperishable; invisible; justice; knowledge; lake; language; leave; life; like; likely; living; long; love; lyre; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; men; mind; moment; natural; nature; new; notion; number; objection; odd; opinion; opposed; opposites; order; pain; perfect; perish; person; phaedo; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; pleasures; point; power; present; previous; principle; prison; process; progress; proof; pure; question; ready; real; reason; recollection; relation; release; remain; republic; return; right; river; round; saying; sea; seen; sense; simmias; small; smallness; socrates; sort; soul; speak; state; subject; tartarus; things; thinking; thought; time; true; truth; view; virtue; want; water; way; wisdom; wise; words; world; years
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- 1666
- author: Apuleius
- title: The Golden Asse
- date: None
- words: 80642
- flesch: 53
- summary: I was appointed to bring home wood every day from a high hill, and who should drive me thither and home again, but a boy that was the veriest hangman in all the world, who was not contented with the great travell that I tooke in climbing up the hill, neither pleased when he saw my hoofe torne and worne away by sharpe flintes, but he beat me cruelly with a great staffe, insomuch that the marrow of my bones did ake for woe, for he would strike me continually on the right hip, and still in one place, whereby he tore my skinne and made of my wide sore a great hole or trench, or rather a window to looke out at, and although it runne downe of blood, yet would he not cease beating me in that place: moreover he laded me with such great burthens of wood that you would thinke they had been rather prepared for Elephants then for me, and when he perceived that my wood hanged more on one side then another, (when he should rather take away the heavy sides, and so ease me, or else lift them up to make them equall with the other) he laid great stones upon the weaker side to remedy the matter, yet could be not be contented with this my great misery and immoderate burthens of wood, but when hee came to any river (as there were many by the way) he to save his feete from water, would leape upon my loynes likewise, which was no small loade upon loade. And when with great pleasure shee had viewed all these things, she heard a voyce without any body, that sayd, Why doe you marvell Madame at so great riches?
- keywords: accustomed; againe; ancient; answer; apuleius; armes; art; asse; astonied; backe; baker; bare; beasts; beating; beauty; bed; bee; behold; belly; best; better; betweene; beware; bird; bloud; bodies; body; bold; boy; brother; byrrhena; cause; certaine; chamber; chapter; charge; charites; child; children; city; cleane; closed; colour; comely; comfort; commandement; comming; common; companion; company; conscience; contented; continuall; contrary; corps; counsell; countenance; countrey; courage; covered; crime; cruell; crying; cupid; cut; dainty; danger; daughter; day; dayes; dead; death; declare; delay; delight; depart; desire; desirous; destruction; divers; divine; doe; dogs; doores; dost; doth; drinke; eares; eies; end; enterprise; envy; escape; estate; evill; excellent; eyes; face; fact; faith; fall; family; farre; fast; father; favour; feare; feet; fine; fire; following; force; forth; fortune; forward; fotis; friends; gan; gardener; garments; gate; gentle; gentlewoman; glad; goddesse; gods; goe; gold; good; grace; great; ground; haire; halfe; halter; hand; hanging; happy; hard; harlot; hast; hath; head; hearing; heart; heaven; hee; hell; helpe; high; hill; himselfe; hither; home; honest; honour; hope; horses; host; house; howbeit; humane; husband; ignorant; image; insomuch; intent; journey; joy; joyfull; judge; judgement; jupiter; keepe; kind; labour; laded; land; law; leave; left; length; lepolemus; lest; lie; life; like; little; live; long; looke; love; lucius; lying; mad; maiden; man; manner; marriage; married; master; matron; meane; meat; mee; members; men; merry; middle; midnight; mighty; milo; mind; mischiefe; mischievous; miserable; mistresse; money; mooved; morning; mother; mouth; myne; myrmex; naked; necessary; new; night; noble; number; occasion; old man; onely; open; order; owne; paine; parents; past; people; person; physitian; pitty; place; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; point; poore; pot; power; poyson; pray; prepared; presence; present; pretious; priest; principall; promise; providence; psyches; purpose; quoth; ranne; ready; reason; regard; religion; remedy; remembrance; residue; rest; returne; rich; riches; river; roses; running; sacrifice; sate; sayd; saying; scarce; sea; secret; seeme; selfe; servants; service; shape; shee; shepheards; silver; sister; skinne; slaine; slay; sleepe; small; socrates; somewhat; soone; sorrow; sort; souldier; sound; spake; speare; spirit; staffe; stones; strange; substance; suffer; sunne; supper; sweet; sword; table; talke; teeth; temple; tender; thee; theefe; theeves; therewithall; thessaly; things; thinke; thou; thou art; thought; thrasillus; thy; time; travell; treasure; trees; truth; utter; valiant; venus; verily; village; violence; voice; water; way; weapons; weary; wee; weeping; wel; whereat; whereof; wherewith; white; wicked; wife; wild; willed; wine; wise; woman; wood; words; worke; world; worthy; young; young man
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- 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: actions; answer; archelaus; argument; arithmetic; art; arts; ask; assembly; athenian; bad; beauty; belief; best; better; body; brave; business; callicles; case; certain; chaerephon; character; children; citizens; city; class; company; compare; concerned; conclusion; condition; consequences; cookery; courts; day; dead; death; defence; desire; dialogue; different; discourse; disease; disgraceful; duty; earnest; ears; earth; education; effect; evil; example; experience; false; feeling; figures; flattery; form; friend; future; general; god; gods; good; good man; gorgias; great; greater; greatest; gymnastic; half; hand; happiness; happy; having; health; heaven; help; higher; highest; honourable; house; human; ideal; ignorant; improvement; incurable; inferior; injustice; interest; judge; judgment; knowledge; language; law; laws; life; like; likely; little; lives; long; longer; love; making; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; meaning; medicine; men; mere; mind; miserable; modern; moment; money; moral; myth; natural; nature; nay; new; noble; notion; old; opinion; opposite; order; pain; painful; pass; people; pericles; person; persuasion; phaedo; philosophy; physician; place; plato; playing; pleasant; pleasure; poetry; point; politics; polus; possible; power; present; principle; private; punishment; question; ready; real; reason; regard; replies; reply; republic; rest; rhetoric; rhetorician; ridiculous; right; rule; sake; saying; second; seeing; self; sense; similar; slave; socrates; sophistry; sort; soul; speaking; speech; spirit; state; statesman; stronger; suffering; superior; tale; teacher; temperate; themistocles; things; thought; time; true; truth; tyrant; unable; unjust; use; view; virtue; want; way; willing; wise; wish; words; world; worse; wrong
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- 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: able; achilles; alcibiades; answer; argument; aristotle; art; bad; best; better; calculation; character; compare; dialogues; earlier; eudicus; evidence; evil; excellence; false; falsehood; funeral; genuineness; good; great; greater; hippias; homer; justice; later; lesser hippias; man; men; mind; odysseus; opinion; oration; plato; platonic; power; protagoras; question; republic; socrates; soul; spirit; spurious; tell; things; true; truth; wily; wisdom; wise; works; worse; writings; wrong
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- 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: affairs; agreement; aim; alcibiades; answer; aristotle; art; athenians; belongings; best; better; body; care; case; character; city; cleinias; courage; dialogues; difference; evidence; evil; example; excellence; expedient; eye; feet; friend; friendship; genuineness; god; good; great; gymnastic; hippias; honourable; ignorance; ignorant; justice; kings; know; knowledge; life; like; likely; lover; man; manner; matter; men; nature; noble; pericles; person; plato; platonic; power; question; reason; respect; right; rule; self; socrates; son; soul; spurious; state; things; thought; time; true; unjust; use; value; virtue; war; way; wisdom; wise; work; writings; years
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- 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; bad; best; better; case; city; compare; contrary; discretion; disease; evils; foolish; gods; good; greatest; homer; ignorance; knowledge; lacedaemonians; likely; man; mean; men; ophthalmia; opinion; person; plato; poet; prayer; right; second; sense; sick; socrates; state; thing; time; true; wise; words
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- 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: argument; art; bad; best; body; case; critias; disease; erasistratus; eryxias; evil; gold; good; greatest; house; instruments; life; like; man; means; modern; money; need; opinion; plato; possession; procure; prodicus; purpose; question; riches; silver; socrates; things; thought; true; useful; useless; value; virtue; want; way; wealth; wisdom
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- 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: able; age; alcibiades; ancestors; aristotle; aspasia; athenians; barbarians; brave; care; character; children; city; common; country; day; dead; dialogues; evidence; excellence; fathers; form; friends; funeral; genuineness; gods; good; government; great; hellas; hellenes; hippias; king; lacedaemonians; land; later; life; like; living; man; manner; marathon; menexenus; mention; noble; oration; parents; phaedrus; place; plato; platonic; power; praise; reputation; sea; second; ships; socrates; speech; spurious; state; thucydides; time; valour; war; woman; words; work; writings
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- 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: absolute; abstract; affected; age; answer; argument; beginning; case; certain; change; compare; conception; consequences; contact; contradiction; course; dialectic; dialogue; different; difficulty; doctrine; eleatic; end; equal; equality; existence; form; god; good; greater; greatness; human; hypothesis; ideas; impossible; inasmuch; individuals; infinite; kind; knowledge; like; likeness; longer; manner; mean; meaning; measures; mere; method; middle; mind; modern; motion; nature; number; objects; older; opinion; opposite; parmenides; partake; partaking; participation; parts; philosophy; place; plato; platonic; point; present; process; pythodorus; question; relation; relative; rest; right; round; saying; second; similar; smallness; socrates; sort; state; substance; terms; things; thought; time; touch; true; truth; unity; unlike; view; virtue; way; words; world; younger; zeno
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- 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: able; abstract; abstractions; account; agent; analysis; ancient; animals; answer; appears; argument; aristotle; association; attempt; best; better; birth; body; boy; case; certain; change; character; class; cold; colour; common; compare; conception; confusion; connexion; consciousness; course; death; definition; degree; dialogue; differences; different; difficulty; discussion; distance; distinction; divine; doctrine; earth; effect; elements; error; euclid; evil; example; existence; experience; explanation; eye; eyes; facts; faculties; fall; false; false opinion; far; feeling; figures; flux; form; friend; future; general; god; gods; good; great; greater; hand; hard; having; hear; hearing; heaven; help; heracleitus; higher; history; hold; human; ideas; ignorance; ignorant; image; imagination; impression; individual; infinite; inward; judge; kind; knowing; knowledge; knows; language; later; laws; learning; letters; life; like; likely; little; long; look; making; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; meaning; measure; memory; men; mental; mere; midwives; mind; mistaken; modern; motion; names; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; new; noble; number; objects; observation; old; opinion; opposite; order; original; outward; parmenides; parts; passing; past; patient; perceives; perception; person; phenomena; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; point; possible; power; present; principle; process; processes; protagoras; psychology; quality; question; ready; real; reason; recollection; reflection; relation; remark; reply; republic; rest; return; ridiculous; right; right opinion; round; said; saying; science; seeing; self; sensation; sense; sensible; servant; similar; simple; socrates; socrates theaetetus; sophist; sort; soul; space; speech; sphere; state; statement; study; subject; syllable; terms; terpsion; theaetetus; theodorus; theory; things; think; thinking; thought; time; touch; true; true opinion; truth; universal; unlike; use; view; want; way; ways; white; wisdom; wise; wonder; words; work; world; wrong; youth
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- 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: able; absolute; abstract; abstractions; acquisitive; angler; animals; answer; argument; aristotle; art; attempt; attribute; bad; beautiful; beginning; better; body; case; certain; class; classes; common; communion; conception; contradiction; course; creation; definition; degree; dialogues; differences; different; difficulties; difficulty; discourse; dispute; divine; division; doctrine; earth; education; effect; eleatic stranger; enquiry; essence; example; exchange; existence; experience; expression; false; falsehood; form; friend; general; genius; god; good; great; greater; greatest; greek; ground; half; hegel; hegelian; help; higher; history; human; hunting; ideas; ignorance; image; imitation; infinite; instruction; kinds; knowledge; known; language; life; light; like; likeness; line; little; logic; long; look; maker; making; man; mankind; manner; matter; mean; meaning; men; mere; method; mind; motion; names; natural; nature; necessary; necessity; negation; negative; new; number; object; old; opinion; opposite; opposition; order; parmenides; parts; person; phantastic; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; point; positive; possible; power; present; principle; proposition; purification; question; real; reason; reflection; regard; relation; reply; republic; rest; saying; says; science; second; sense; sentence; single; socrates; sophist; sort; soul; speech; spirit; statesman; stranger; subject; sure; system; term; theaetetus; theodorus; things; thought; time; true; truth; understanding; understood; unity; universal; use; view; virtue; want; water; way; words; work; world; young; youth
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- 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: able; action; animals; answer; argument; art; arts; ask; authority; bad; beginning; best; better; body; care; case; certain; change; character; city; class; classes; come; command; common; compare; conception; concerned; contrary; courageous; course; cycle; day; democracy; dialectical; dialogues; different; difficulty; discussion; divine; division; earth; education; eleatic stranger; elements; end; enquiry; error; evil; example; existence; far; form; general; god; gods; good; government; great; greater; greatest; hand; herds; higher; human; ideal; interest; justice; king; knowledge; land; language; law; laws; legislator; length; life; like; likely; little; living; longer; making; management; managing; mankind; manner; master; mean; measure; men; method; mind; monarchy; myth; names; nature; necessary; new; notion; number; old; operative; opinion; opposite; order; particular; people; perfect; persons; physician; place; plato; point; political; politics; power; present; previous; principle; process; question; rearing; reason; republic; rest; rich; right; royal; rule; rulers; saying; science; second; self; sense; shepherd; similar; single; small; society; sophist; sort; species; spirit; standard; statesman; stranger; subjects; suppose; tale; temperate; theaetetus; theodorus; things; thought; time; true; true king; truth; tyrant; universe; use; view; violence; virtue; warp; way; weaving; wisdom; wise; woof; wool; words; work; world; worse; writings; young men; young socrates
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- 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: able; abstract; actions; answer; argument; aristotle; arts; bad; beauty; best; better; bodily; body; cases; cause; certain; character; chief; class; classes; common; conception; consciousness; course; dear protarchus; degree; desire; dialectic; dialogues; difference; difficulty; discussion; distinction; divided; divine; doctrine; elements; end; enquiry; envy; essence; eternal; ethics; evil; exact; example; existence; experience; false; feeling; figure; fire; follow; form; fourth; friend; future; general; generation; god; gods; good; gorgias; great; greater; greatest; happiness; harmony; health; higher; highest; hope; human; ideas; ignorance; impure; individual; infinite; justice; kinds; knowledge; language; later; law; life; like; limit; little; lives; long; longer; love; man; mankind; manner; mean; meaning; measure; memory; mental; mind; mingle; mixed; mixture; modern; moral; morality; music; natural; nature; necessary; new; notion; number; old; opinion; opposite; order; pain; perfect; person; phaedrus; philebus; philosophers; philosophy; place; plato; pleased; pleasure; point; power; practice; present; principle; protarchus; pure; quality; quantity; question; real; reason; relation; religion; republic; ridiculous; right; rule; sake; saying; scale; sciences; second; self; sense; similar; socrates; sort; soul; speaking; sphere; state; sufficient; symmetry; theory; things; thought; time; true; truth; union; unity; universal; universe; utility; view; virtue; want; way; wisdom; words; world; wrong
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- 2562
- author: Aristophanes
- title: The Clouds
- date: None
- words: 15444
- flesch: 92
- summary: But I would reply, that old men are boys twice over, and that it is the more reasonable that the old should weep than the young, inasmuch as it is less just that they should err. Strep. Strep.
- keywords: able; account; air; amyn; amynias; argument; better; boy; cause; chaerephon; cho; clever; clouds; come; day; days; desire; dis; door; earth; excellent; exit; father; fellow; fine; gods; good; great; horses; house; interest; jove; jupiter; justice; law; length; like; little; long; look; man; matter; means; men; mind; money; moon; nature; nay; new; night; old; open; order; pas; pasias; person; phid; phidippides; place; possible; present; rain; reason; sacred; shop; sleep; soc; socrates; son; strep; strepsiades; suit; things; thinking; thou; thought; thunder; time; tongue; turn; unhappy; unj; unjust; voice; way; willing; wisdom; wise; witness; words; worse; wretch; yea; youth
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- 26095
- author: Aristotle
- title: The Athenian Constitution
- date: None
- words: 24854
- flesch: 59
- summary: At last, when for all his efforts he could not obtain release by death, he promised to give further information against a number of other persons; and, having induced Hippias to give him his hand to confirm his word, as soon as he had hold of it he reviled him for giving his hand to the murderer of his brother, till Hippias, in a frenzy of rage, lost control of himself and snatched out his dagger and dispatched him. The Polemarch, however, brings up in person cases in which an alien is charged with deserting his patron or neglecting to provide himself with one, and also of inheritances and wards of state where aliens are concerned; and in fact, generally, whatever the Archon does for citizens, the Polemarch does for aliens.
- keywords: accounts; acropolis; addition; administration; affairs; age; archon; archonship; areopagus; assembly; athenians; athens; battle; best; birth; body; candidates; cases; cavalry; charge; citizens; city; class; classes; cleisthenes; clerk; commissioners; conjunction; constitution; control; council; country; court; day; days; death; demes; democracy; drachmas; duties; duty; ephialtes; exiles; fact; fine; following; force; franchise; free; general; good; government; great; hands; hippias; hold; house; jurors; king; lacedaemonians; later; law; laws; leader; list; long; lot; magistrates; man; manner; masses; matters; measures; members; men; military; money; motion; names; number; oath; office; officers; open; order; parties; party; pay; people; period; persons; piraeus; pisistratus; place; polemarch; popular; position; power; present; private; procession; property; prytanes; prytany; public; purpose; reference; rest; return; sacred; service; set; share; solid; solon; state; sum; taking; terms; theramenes; thesmothetae; time; treasurers; tribe; tyranny; tyrants; upper; vote; war; way; wealth; years
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- 3052
- author: Plutarch
- title: Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
- date: None
- words: 278050
- flesch: 67
- summary: Plato, says he, writes that horses are in vain by us considered horses, and men men. 'Mongst mortals there No Nature is; nor that grim thing men fear So much, called death.
- keywords: absurd; absurdity; abundance; abuse; accident; account; accustomed; achilles; acquaintance; actions; active; acts; acute; admits; advantage; advice; aeschylus; aesop; affairs; affected; affection; affirm; afraid; afterward; agamemnon; agreeable; air; ajax; alexander; alteration; ammonius; anacharsis; anaxagoras; anaximander; ancients; anger; angry; animals; answer; apollo; appears; appetite; argument; ariseth; aristodemus; aristophanes; aristotle; arms; army; assent; assistance; athenians; athens; atoms; author; away; bacchus; bad; banquet; barbarians; bare; base; battle; bear; beasts; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; beings; belief; belly; beloved; benefit; best; better; bias; birds; birth; black; blame; blessed; blind; blood; blow; bodies; body; book; bowl; boys; brass; brazen; bread; breast; breath; bright; bring; bringing; broken; brother; bulimy; business; capable; care; cases; cast; cause; centre; ceres; certain; change; chapter; character; chariot; chief; chiefest; 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- author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- title: L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits
- date: None
- words: 84350
- flesch: 66
- summary: If a man has begotten great men, he deserves to receive benefits, whatever he himself may be: he has given us worthy men. I will not remind you of Socrates, Chrysippus, Zeno, and other great men, all the greater, however, because envy prevents no one from praising the ancients.
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