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1. [100.00%] POLITEIA (Republic) by Plato - Complete text - Part 4 Page 48

a long space. But to the knowledge of human fecundity and sterility all the wisdom and education of your rulers will not attain; the laws which regulate them will not be discovered by an intelligence which is alloyed with sense, but will escape them, and they will bring children into the world when they ought not. Now that which is of divine birth has a period which is contained in a perfect number, but the period of

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2. [71.10%] CHARMIDES by Plato - Complete text - Page 24

as we were saying, is self-knowledge or wisdom: so we were saying? Yes, Socrates, he said; and that I think is certainly true: for he who has this science or knowledge which knows itself will become like the knowledge which he has, in the same way that he who has swiftness will be swift, and he who has beauty will be beautiful, and he who has knowledge will know. In the same way he who has that knowledge which is

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3. [67.63%] MENO by Plato - Complete text - Page 28

disciple in that branch of knowledge which he wishes him to acquire - would not such conduct be the height of folly? Any. Yes, by Zeus, and of ignorance too. Soc. Very good. And now you are in a position to advise with me about my friend Meno. He has been telling me, Anytus, that he desires to attain that kind of wisdom and - virtue by which men order the state or the house, and honour their parents, and

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4. [61.27%] GORGIAS by Plato - Complete text - Part 1 Page 24

Socrates. Soc. Wisdom and health and wealth and the like you would call goods, and their opposites evils? Pol. I should. Soc. And the things which are neither good nor evil, and which partake sometimes of the nature of good and at other times of evil, or of neither, are such as sitting, walking, running, sailing; or, again, wood, stones, and the like: - these are the things which you call

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5. [61.27%] LAWS by Plato - Complete text - Part 1 Page 10

of sight, if only he has wisdom for his companion. For wisdom is chief and leader of the divine dass of goods, and next follows temperance; and from the union of these two with courage springs justice, and fourth in the scale of virtue is courage. All these naturally take precedence of the other goods, and this is the order in which the legislator must place them, and after them he will enjoin the rest of his

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6. [51.45%] CHARMIDES by Plato - Complete text - Page 32

32 And that knowledge which is nearest of all, I said, is the knowledge of what? The knowledge with which he discerns good and evil. Monster! I said; you have been carrying me round in a circle, and all this time hiding from me the fact that the life according to knowledge is not that which makes men act rightly and be happy, not even if knowledge include all the sciences, but one science

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7. [51.45%] EUTHYDEMUS by Plato - Complete text - Page 1

what is their line of wisdom? Soc. As to their origin, I believe that they are natives of this part of the world, and have migrated from Chios to Thurii; they were driven out of Thurii, and have been living for many years past in these regions. As to their wisdom, about which you ask, Crito, they are wonderful - consummate! I never knew what the true pancratiast was before; they are simply made up of fighting,

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8. [51.45%] PROTAGORAS by Plato - Complete text - Part 2 Page 2

is the metropolis of wisdom, and in the greatest and most glorious house of this city, should have nothing to show worthy of this height of dignity, but should only quarrel with one another like the meanest of mankind I pray and advise you, Protagoras, and you, Socrates, to agree upon a compromise. Let us be your peacemakers. And do not you, Socrates, aim at this precise and extreme brevity in discourse, if

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9. [48.55%] CHARMIDES by Plato - Complete text - Page 29

we assume then, I said, that wisdom, viewed in this new light merely as a knowledge of knowledge and ignorance, has this advantage:-that he who possesses such knowledge will more easily learn anything which he learns; and that everything will be clearer to him, because, in addition to the knowledge of individuals, he sees the science, and this also will better enable him to test the knowledge which others have of what he

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10. [45.09%] EUTHYDEMUS by Plato - Complete text - Page 37

I said, this is the crown of wisdom; can I ever hope to have such wisdom of my own? And would you be able, Socrates, to recognize this wisdom when it has become your own? Certainly, I said, if you will allow me. What, he said, do you think that you know what is your own? Yes, I do, subject to your correction; for you are the bottom, and Euthydemus is the top, of all my wisdom. Is not

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