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          id: 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.
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        item: #2 of 20
          id: 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: antisthenes; aristoph; autolycus; beauty; body; callias; company; critobulus; eyes; good; iii; love; man; mem; men; plat; socrates; soul; things; time; viii
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        item: #3 of 20
          id: 13726
      author: Plato
       title: Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
        date: None
       words: 52363
      flesch: 75
     summary: for that I have purposely during my life not remained quiet, but neglecting what most men seek after, money-making, domestic concerns, military command, popular oratory, and, moreover, all the magistracies, conspiracies, and cabals that are met with in the city, thinking that I was in reality too upright a man to be safe if I took part in such things, I therefore did not apply myself to those pursuits, by attending to which I should have been of no service either to you or to myself; but in order to confer the greatest benefit on each of you privately, as I affirm, I thereupon applied myself to that object, endeavoring to persuade every one of you not to take any care of his own affairs before he had taken care of himself in what way he may become the best and wisest, nor of the affairs of the city before he took care of the city itself; and that he should attend to other things in the same manner. Far otherwise: I have been convicted through want indeed, yet not of arguments, but of audacity and impudence, and of the inclination to say such things to you as would have been most agreeable for you to hear, had I lamented and bewailed and done and said many other things unworthy of me, as I affirm, but such as you are accustomed to hear from others.
    keywords: athenians; body; cebes; consider; contrary; crito; death; good; kind; know; life; man; men; present; respect; simmias; socrates; soul; things; time; truth
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        item: #4 of 20
          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.
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        item: #5 of 20
          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.
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        item: #6 of 20
          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.
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        item: #7 of 20
          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?
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        item: #8 of 20
          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?
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        item: #9 of 20
          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: #10 of 20
          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: #11 of 20
          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.
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        item: #12 of 20
          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: #13 of 20
          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:
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        item: #14 of 20
          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: #15 of 20
          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: #16 of 20
          id: 17490
      author: Xenophon
       title: The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
        date: None
       words: 56288
      flesch: 65
     summary: For this reason, parents, though they be well enough assured of the good natural disposition of their children, fail not to forbid them the conversation of the vicious, because it is the ruin of worthy dispositions, whereas the conversation of good men is a continual meditation of virtue. Ought not they, then, who labour to gain the friendship of good men, or to overcome their enemies, or to render themselves capable of governing their families, and of serving their country, ought not these, I say, joyfully to undertake the trouble, and to rest content, conscious of the inward approbation of their own minds, and the regard and esteem of the virtuous?
    keywords: affairs; body; care; contrary; euthydemus; friends; friendship; gods; good; having; laws; life; love; man; manner; men; mind; opinion; persons; reason; republic; socrates; things; time; use; virtue; way
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        item: #17 of 20
          id: 40435
      author: Grote, George
       title: Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 230430
      flesch: 64
     summary: [Greek: Oi)=da ga\r o(/ti o)li/gois tisi\ tau=ta kai\ dokei= kai\ do/xei; O(=is ou)=n ou(/tô de/doktai kai\ oi(=s mê/, _tou/tois ou)k e)/sti koinê\ boulê/, a)ll' a)na/gkê tou/tous a)llê/lôn kataphronei=n, o(rôntas ta\ a)llê/lôn bouleu/mata_. ei)=nai kai\ mano\n kai\ ta\s
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        item: #18 of 20
          id: 40436
      author: Grote, George
       title: Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 208893
      flesch: 69
     summary: [Greek: oi(=os de\ ou(tosi\ ge/gone tê\n _a)topi/an_ a)/nthrôpos, kai\ au)to\s kai\ oi( lo/goi au)tou=, ou)d' e)ggu\s a)\n eu(/roi tis zêtô=n], &c. [Greek: katêgorête/on ei)/ê kai\ au(tou= kai\ ui(e/os kai\ e(tai/ron, e)a/n ti a)dikê=|], &c. Plato might have put this argument into the mouth of Euthyphron as a reason for indicting his own father on the charge of murder: as I have already observed in reviewing the Euthyphron, which see above, vol.
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        item: #19 of 20
          id: 40437
      author: Grote, George
       title: Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 3
        date: None
       words: 217537
      flesch: 65
     summary: u(pokei=tai mê\ ei)=nai, kai\ tou= _e)kei/nou_ kai\ a)/llôn pollô=n a)na/gkê au)tô=| metei=nai.]] =n kai\ _poi=
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        item: #20 of 20
          id: 40438
      author: Grote, George
       title: Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 4
        date: None
       words: 255044
      flesch: 64
     summary: Demiurgus, opposed to [Greek: i)diô/tês], ii. 272 _n._; of kosmos, iii. 265 _n._; postulated, iv. 220; is not a creator, _ib._; produces kosmos, by persuading Necessity, _ib._, 222; on pattern of ideas, 227; evolved the four elements from primordial chaos, 240; addresses generated gods, 233; prepares for man's construction, places a soul in each star, _ib._; conjoins three souls and one body, 234; how conceived by other philosophers of same century, 254; little noticed in Aristotle, 255; degeneracy of man originally intended by, 263. Demochares, law against philosophers, i. 111 _n._ Democracy, least bad of unscientific governments, iii. 270, 278; origin, iv. 80; monarchy and, the _mother-polities_, 312; dissent of Aristotle, _ib._ _n._; Plato's second ideal state a compromise of oligarchy and, 333, 337. Demokritus, life and travels, i. 65; Plato's antipathy to, 66 _n._, 82 _n._, ii. 118, iv. 355 _n._; often mentioned in Aristotle, _ib._; opinions of ancients on, i. 82 _n._; his universality, 82; relation to Parmenidean theory, 66; plena and vacua, ens and non-ens, 67, iii. 243 _n._; his absolute and relative, i. 71, 80; atoms differ only in magnitude, figure, position, and arrangement, 69; different from Plato's Idea, and Aristotle's _materia prima_, 72; not really objects of sense, _ib._ _n._; inherent force, 73; his ultimatum, the course of nature, _ib._; primary and secondary qualities, iv. ; early relations with Sokrates, 248; service as a citizen and soldier, 249; political life, 251; political changes in Greece during life, 1; travels alter death of Sokrates, 253; permanently established at Athens, 254; teaches at the Academy, _ib._; received presents, not fees, iii. 218 _n._; his pupils, numerous, wealthy, and from different cities, i. 255; many subsequently politicians, 261 _n._; Eudoxus, 255; Aristotle, 260; Demosthenes, 261 _n._; visits the younger Dionysius, 258, 351, 194 _n._; relations with Dionysius, 255; disappointments, 280; varying relations with Isokrates, ii. 331 _n._, iii. 35; his jealousy and love of supremacy, i. 117 _n._, 153 _n._; alleged ill-nature, 117 _n._; antipathy to Antisthenes, 151, 152 _n._, 165; alleged enmity between Xenophon and, iii. 22 _n._, iv. 146 _n._, 312 _n._; rivalry with Lysias, iii. 408, 410 _n._, 411 _n._; death, i. 200; Plato and Aristotle represent pure Hellenic philosophy, _xiv_; St. Jerome on, _xv_; criticism on early Greek philosophy, 87 _n._; relation to predecessors, 91; theories in circulation in his time, _ib._; Parmenidês and Pythagoras supplied basis for, 89; relation to Sokrates, 344 _n._, ii. 303; Pythagoreanism, i. 10 _n._, 15 _n._, 87, 344 _n._, 346 _n._, 347, 349 _n._, ii. 426 _n._, iii. 368, iv. 424 _n._; Herakleitus, i. 27, ii. 30; Demokritus, i. 66 _n._, 82 _n._, iv. 355 _
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