Charmides. Lysis. Laches. Protagoras. Euthydemus. Cratylus. Phaedrus. Ion. SymposiumOxford University Press, American Branch, 1892 |
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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 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 praise principle Prodicus Protagoras question reason replied rhapsode rhetoric sense Simonides Socrates Sophists sort soul sound speak speech suppose sure Symposium tell temperance things thought TION true truth virtue wisdom wise words writing youth Zeus
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Page 410 - Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 534 - 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 583 - ... 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 584 - But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty - the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life - thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Page 504 - For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed. And as the Corybantian* revellers when they dance are not in their right mind...
Page 583 - ... on to the sciences, that he may see their beauty, being not like a servant in love with the beauty of one youth or man or institution, himself a slave mean and...
Page 491 - 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 561 - 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 584 - 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 589 - I never had any similar feeling; my soul was not stirred by them, nor was I angry at the thought of my own slavish state. But this Marsyas has often brought me to such a pass that I have felt as if I could hardly endure the life which I am leading...