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id: 1677
author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
title: Alcibiades II
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words: 5977
sentence: 342
flesch: 79
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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.


id: 1681
author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
title: Eryxias
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words: 7121
sentence: 307
flesch: 75
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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?


id: 1676
author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
title: Alcibiades I
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words: 18733
sentence: 1329
flesch: 79
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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:


id: 1643
author: Plato
title: Meno
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words: 22294
sentence: 1129
flesch: 76
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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?


id: 1591
author: Plato
title: Protagoras
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words: 28115
sentence: 1084
flesch: 71
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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?


id: 57260
author: Mandeville, Bernard
title: The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
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words: 221634
sentence: 5760
flesch: 56
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summary:
  It would be difficult to name a king, or other great man, in very ancient times, who attempted to govern an infant nation that laid no claim to some commerce or other with an invisible power, either held by himself or his ancestors. But let us grant that the eyes of the mobility are to be dazzled with a gaudy outside; if virtue was the chief delight of great men, why should their extravagance be extended to things not understood by the mob, and wholly removed from public view, I mean their private diversions, the pomp and luxury of the dining-room and the bed-chamber, and the curiosities of the closet?


id: 12958
author: Richardson, Samuel
title: Pamela, Volume II
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words: 217975
sentence: 6611
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Well, said my lady, then help me, good _sister_--there's for you!--to a little sugar. Her letters were but so many links to the chains in which she had bound me; and though once I had resolved to part with her to Lady Davers, and you, Madam, had an intention to take her, I could not for my life give her up; and thinking more honourably then of the state of a mistress than I have done since, I could not persuade myself (since I intended to do as handsomely by her as ever man did to a lady in that situation) but that I should do better for her than my mother had wished me to do, and so _more_ than answer all her injunctions, as to the providing for her: and I could not imagine I should meet with a resistance I had seldom encountered from persons much her superiors as to descent; and was amazed at it; for it confounded me in all the notions I had of her sex, which, like a true libertine, I supposed wanted nothing but _importunity_ and _opportunity_, a bold attempter, and a mind not ungenerous.


