Charmides. Lysis. Laches. Protagoras. Euthydemus. Cratylus. Phaedrus. Ion. SymposiumClarendon Press, 1892 - Philosophy |
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admit Agathon agree Alcibiades ANALYSIS ancient answer appear argument Aristodemus Aristophanes assented Athenian beauty beginning beloved better called Callias Certainly character Charmides Cleinias courage Crat Cratylus Critias Crito Ctesippus desire Dialogue Dionysodorus discourse divine enquiry Eryximachus Euthyde Euthydemus evil expression fancy father friendship GENES give gods Greek hear Heracleitus HERMO Hermogenes Hesiod Hippias Homer honour human ideas ignorant imagine imitation inspired INTRODUC justice knowledge Laches language lover Lysias Lysimachus Lysis manner matter meaning Menexenus mind names nature never Nicias noble non-lover notion opinion Pausanias person Phaedrus philosophy physician Plato pleasure poets posium praise principle Prodicus Protagoras question reason replied rhapsode rhetoric sense Simonides Socrates Sophists sort soul speak speech suppose tell temperance things thought TION true truth virtue wisdom wise words writing youth Zeus
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Page 528 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Page 577 - ... to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is. This, my dear Socrates...
Page 577 - ... absolute, separate, simple, and everlasting, which without diminution and without increase, or any change, is imparted to the ever-growing and perishing beauties of all other things.
Page 485 - Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one. May I reckon the wise to be the wealthy, and may I have such a quantity of gold as none but the temperate can carry.
Page 577 - He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession, when he comes toward the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty...
Page 555 - Androgynous" is only preserved as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond.
Page 578 - Socrates," said the stranger of Mantineia, "is that life above all others which man should live, in the contemplation of beauty absolute; a beauty which if you once beheld, you would see not to be after the measure of gold, and garments, and fair boys and youths...
Page 452 - For there is no light of justice or temperance or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass dimly; and there are few who, going to the images, behold in them the realities, and these only with difficulty.
Page 452 - Few only retain an adequate remembrance of them; and they, when they behold here any image of that other world, are rapt in amazement; but they are ignorant of what this rapture means, because they do not clearly perceive.
Page 518 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.