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1. [100.00%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 4 Page 71

The last extreme of popular liberty is when the slave bought with money, whether male or female, is just as free as his or her purchaser; nor must I forget to tell of the liberty and equality of the two sexes in relation to each other. Why not, as Aeschylus says, utter the word which rises to our lips? That is what I am doing, I replied; and I must add that no one who does not know would believe, how much greater

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2. [43.59%] MENEXENUS by Plato - Complete text - Page 7

and fought for the freedom of the Boeotians; the issue was doubtful, and was decided by the engagement which followed. For when the Lacedaemonians had gone on their way, leaving the Boeotians, whom they were aiding, on the third day after the battle of Tanagra, our countrymen conquered at Oenophyta, and righteously restored those who had been unrighteously exiled. And they were the first after the Persian war who

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3. [43.59%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 1 Page 14

has given old men free licence, there will be no impropriety in our discussing these very matters now that we are alone. Cle. True. And therefore you may be as free as you like in your censure of our laws, for there is no discredit in knowing what is wrong; he who receives what is said in a generous and friendly spirit will be all the better for it. Ath. Very good; however, I am not going to say

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4. [30.77%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 4 Page 68

breeding, and anarchy liberty, and waste magnificence, and impudence courage. And so the young man passes out of his original nature, which was trained in the school of necessity, into the freedom and libertinism of useless and unnecessary pleasures. Yes, he said, the change in him is visible enough. After this he lives on, spending his money and labour and time on unnecessary pleasures quite as much

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5. [30.77%] MENEXENUS by Plato - Complete text - Page 6

been brought up in all freedom, did both in their public and private capacity many noble deeds famous over the whole world. They were the deeds of men who thought that they ought to fight both against Hellenes for the sake of Hellenes on behalf of freedom, and against barbarians in the common interest of Hellas. Time would fail me to tell of their defence of their country against the invasion of Eumolpus and the

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6. [30.77%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 36

man is not unjust of his own free will. For no man of his own free will would choose to possess the greatest of evils, and least of all in the most honourable part of himself. And the soul, as we said, is of a truth deemed by all men the most honourable. In the soul, then, which is the most honourable part of him, no one, if he could help, would admit, or allow to continue the greatest of evils. The unrighteous and vicious

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7. [30.77%] POLITICUS (Statesman) by Plato - Complete text - Page 19

therefore cannot be entirely free from perturbation. But their motion is, as far as possible, single and in the same place, and of the same kind; and is therefore only subject to a reversal, which is the least alteration possible. For the lord of all moving things is alone able to move of himself; and to think that he moves them at one time in one direction and at another time in another is blasphemy. Hence we must not

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8. [30.77%] PHAEDO by Plato - Complete text - Part 1 Page 5

for example took the liberty of putting himself out of the way when you had given no intimation of your wish that he should die, would you not be angry with him, and would you not punish him if you could? Certainly, replied Cebes. Then there may be reason in saying that a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning me. Yes, Socrates, said Cebes, there

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9. [30.77%] ALCIBIADES (I) by Plato - Complete text - Page 17

Alc.: You take liberties, Socrates. Soc.: I shall take the liberty of proving to you the opposite of that which you will not prove to me. Alc.: Proceed. Soc.: Answer my questions—that is all. Alc.: Nay, I should like you to be the speaker. Soc.: What, do you not wish to be persuaded? Alc.: Certainly I do. Soc.: And can you be persuaded better than out of your own

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10. [30.77%] GORGIAS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 6

Soc. And what art frees us from disease? Does not the art of medicine? Pol. Very true. Soc. And what from vice and injustice? If you are not able to answer at once, ask yourself whither we go with the sick, and to whom we take them. Pol. To the physicians, Socrates. Soc. And to whom do we go with the unjust and intemperate? Pol. To the judges, you mean. Soc. - Who are to

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