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id: 1676
title: Alcibiades I
author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
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  ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: But suppose the Athenians to deliberate with whom they ought ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And suppose that we wanted to know not only what men are like, ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And is not the same person able to persuade one individual ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And are honourable things sometimes good and sometimes not ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: You mean in such a case as the following:--In time of war, men ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And they are honourable in so far as they are good, and ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And the good is expedient? ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: But when people think that they do not know, they entrust ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then upon this view of the matter the same man is good and ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: Then what is the meaning of being able to rule over men who SOCRATES: You mean, that if you did not know Alcibiades, there would


id: 1681
title: Eryxias
author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
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  PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Eryxias, Erasistratus, Critias. ask, Well, Socrates and Eryxias and Erasistratus, can you tell me what Yes, said Eryxias, interposing, but what use would it be if a man had And do you think, said the youth, that doing good things is like SOCRATES: What is useful to us, then, is wealth, and what is useless to SOCRATES: My argument, Critias (I said), appears to have given you the SOCRATES: And would you say that those things are useful which are SOCRATES: Then you consider that a man never wants any of these things SOCRATES: But can a bad thing be used to carry out a good purpose? SOCRATES: And do we think it possible that a thing should be useful for CRITIAS: No. SOCRATES: Then if these things are useful for supplying the needs of the SOCRATES: And he to whom the greatest number of things are useful


id: 1677
title: Alcibiades II
author: Plato (spurious and doubtful works)
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  PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates and Alcibiades. SOCRATES: Are you going, Alcibiades, to offer prayer to Zeus? ALCIBIADES: Yes, Socrates, but you are speaking of a madman: surely you ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And every disease ophthalmia? ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: The senseless are those who do not know this? ALCIBIADES: Good words, Socrates, prithee. ALCIBIADES: No. SOCRATES: That ignorance is bad then, it would appear, which is of the ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: The many are foolish, the few wise? SOCRATES: Nor again, I suppose, a person who knows the art of war, but ALCIBIADES: No. SOCRATES: Nor, once more, a person who knows how to kill another or to ALCIBIADES: Yes. SOCRATES: And if a person does that which he knows or supposes that he ALCIBIADES: But I do not think that it has, Socrates: at least, if the ALCIBIADES: I agree, Socrates, with you and with the God, whom, indeed,


id: 1591
title: Protagoras
author: Plato
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  know whether pleasure is not the only good, and pain the only evil? the help of Protagoras in a different order, asking (1) What virtue is, adversary Socrates in the right; or that in this or that passage--e.g. in the explanation of good as pleasure--Plato is inconsistent with Dialogue, when Socrates is arguing that ''pleasure is the only good,'' SOCRATES: Yes; and I have heard and said many things. incurable--if what I am saying be true, good men have their sons taught When you say, Protagoras, that things inexpedient are good, do you mean But you see, Socrates, said Callias, that Protagoras may fairly claim to Hippias said: I think, Socrates, that you have given a very good I said: I wish Protagoras either to ask or answer as he is inclined; but I agree with you, Socrates, said Protagoras; and not only so, but I,


id: 1643
title: Meno
author: Plato
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  Socrates said that virtue is knowledge, so Spinoza would have maintained MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching SOCRATES: When you say, Meno, that there is one virtue of a man, another MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then all men are good in the same way, and by participation in MENO: Yes, Socrates; I agree there; for justice is virtue. MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you mean that they think the evils which they desire, to be SOCRATES: And do you really imagine, Meno, that a man knows evils to be MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then he who does not know may still have true notions of that MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then virtue is profitable? MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: But when we said that a man cannot be a good guide unless he MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as we thought, it


id: 12958
title: Pamela, Volume II
author: Richardson, Samuel
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  a watch-case: "For who knows," said he, "my dear, but we shall have "Dear good souls!" said he, "now every thing they say and write Wherefore my good lady, I hope I stand excused, and shall not bring letters, with such accounts of my dear lady''s favour and goodness to "Dear my lady!" said I: for she still kept looking at me: and her good "Indeed, Sir, I cannot," said I; "pray, my dear ladies--pray, my good which my lady said, a little tartly, "Yes, and for a very good reason, Sir," said I, "these ladies come to be obliged to you for your good "You have an angel, and not a woman, for your lady, my good Mrs. Jervis," said the countess. "Well, but, Sir," said I, "a lady of Miss Darnford''s good sense, hands, from _yours most sincerely_, P.B. Do, dear good Sir Simon, let Miss Polly add to our delights, by her


id: 57260
title: The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
author: Mandeville, Bernard
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  are known by every body: When a man in power gives a great place to brave, generous, good-natured, and endued with the virtues he thinks that the generous notions concerning the natural goodness of man and good nature, in believing that a man of your principles could be and replace things in that natural view, which all just, knowing men Hor. But who knows, what to make of a man, who recommends a thing Hor. Do you think women have more pride from nature than men? Hor. Where men are certain that the truth of a thing is not to be Hor. But was not man by nature designed for society? man in the state of nature would think, and which way he would reason Hor. I was thinking on the man to whom we are in a great measure these things, and what we know of the nature of man, it is hardly


