The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1875 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 245 - 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, so the lyric poets are not in their right mind when they are composing their beautiful strains: but when falling under the power of music and metre they are inspired and possessed...
Pagina 351 - I am better off than he is — for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows ; I neither know nor think that I know.
Pagina 373 - I and my sons will have received justice at your hands. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows.
Pagina 495 - Yet, said Crito, the sun is still upon the hill-tops, and many a one has taken the draught late, and after the announcement has been made to him, he has eaten and drunk, and indulged in sensual delights; do not hasten then, there is still time.
Pagina 496 - ... drinking, and saw too that he had finished the draught, we could no longer forbear, and in spite of myself my own tears were flowing fast : so that I covered my face and wept...
Pagina 360 - Men of Athens, I honor and love you ; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting...
Pagina 369 - Not much time will be gained, O Athenians, in return for the evil name which you will get from the detractors of the city, who will say that you killed Socrates, a wise man ; for they...
Pagina 362 - Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself. And...
Pagina 368 - ... them, others are likely to endure me. No indeed, men of Athens, that is not very likely. And what a life should I lead, at my age, wandering from city to city, living in ever-changing exile, and always being driven out...
Pagina 493 - But I do say that, inasmuch as the soul is shown to be immortal, he may venture to think, not improperly or unworthily, that something of the kind is true. The venture is a glorious one, and he ought to comfort himself with words like these, which is the reason why I lengthen out the tale. Wherefore, I say, let a man be of good cheer about his soul...