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1. [100.00%] HIPPIAS (major) by Plato - Complete text - Page 22

if the appropriate were beautiful and made things not only to be beautiful, but also to appear so. So that the appropriate, if it is that which makes things be beautiful, would be the beautiful which we are looking for, but would not be that which makes things appear beautiful ; but if, on the other hand, the appropriate is that which makes things appear beautiful, it would not be the beautiful for which we are looking.

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2. [97.35%] SOPHIST by Plato - Complete text - Page 63

to be great and the beautiful beautiful, and the not - great not - great, and the not - beautiful not - beautiful, in the same manner not - being has been found to be and is not - being, and is to be reckoned one among the many classes of being. Do you, Theaetetus, still feel any doubt of this? Theaet. None whatever. Str. Do you observe that our scepticism has carried us beyond the range of

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3. [85.71%] SYMPOSIUM by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 11

or in any other place; but beauty 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. He who from these ascending under the influence of true love, begins to perceive that beauty, is not far from the end. And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to

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4. [70.90%] HIPPIAS (major) by Plato - Complete text - Page 12

will say. "But is not a beautiful mare beautiful, which even the god praised in his oracle?" What shall we say, Hippias? Shall we not say that the mare is beautiful, I mean the beautiful mare? For how could we dare to deny that the beautiful thing is beautiful? Hip.: Quite true, Socrates for what the god said is quite correct, too ; for very beautiful mares are bred in our country. Soc.: "Very

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5. [61.90%] HIPPIAS (major) by Plato - Complete text - Page 21

is which makes things be beautiful, as I said just now, whether they appear so or not ; for that is what we are looking for, since we are looking for the beautiful. Hip.: But the appropriate, Socrates, makes things both be and appear beautiful by its presence. Soc.: Is it impossible, then, for things which are really beautiful not to appear to be beautiful, at any rate when that is present which makes them

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6. [59.26%] TIMAEUS by Plato - Complete text - Part 1 Page 13

only; for nothing can be beautiful which is like any imperfect thing; but let us suppose the world to be the very image of that whole of which all other animals both individually and in their tribes are portions. For the original of the universe contains in itself all intelligible beings, just as this world comprehends us and all other visible creatures. For the Deity, intending to make this world like the fairest and

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7. [56.08%] SYMPOSIUM by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 10

of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty of form in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in every form is and the same! And when he perceives this he will abate his violent love of the one, which he will despise and deem a small thing, and will become a lover of all beautiful forms; in the next stage he will consider

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8. [56.08%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 48

nor yet to the strength and beauty of his person, but also to the measure of his wealth or poverty; and so by a law of inequality, which will be in proportion to his wealth, he will receive honours and offices as equally as possible, and there will be no quarrels and disputes. To which end there should be four different standards appointed according to the amount of property: there should be a first and a second and a

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9. [53.44%] HIPPIAS (major) by Plato - Complete text - Page 30

which you say that they are beautiful? For the reason why that which is pleasant through sight is beautiful, is not, I imagine, because it is through sight ; for if that were the cause of its being beautiful, the other pleasure, that through hearing, would not be beautiful ; it certainly is not pleasure through sight." Shall we say "What you say is true"? Hip.: Yes, we shall. Soc.:

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10. [50.26%] ALCIBIADES (I) by Plato - Complete text - Page 28

He relies on his beauty, and stature, and birth, and mental endowments, she would think that we were mad, Alcibiades, when she compared the advantages which you possess with those of her own people. And I believe that even Lampido, the daughter of Leotychides, the wife of Archidamus and mother of Agis, all of whom were kings, would have the same feeling; if, in your present uneducated state, you were to turn your

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