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Plato, Protagoras, section 337d (search)
for like is akin to like by nature, whereas law, despot of mankind, often constrains us against nature. Hence it would be shameful if we, while knowing the nature of things, should yet—being the wisest of the Greeks, and having met together for the very purpose in the very sanctuary of the wisdom of Greece, and in this the greatest and most auspicious house of the city of cities—display no worthy sign of this digni
Plato, Protagoras, section 342a (search)
as you put it,cf. Plat. Prot. 339a above. in the matter of verses; though if you would rather, I will hear your account.When Protagoras heard me say this—As you please, Socrates, he said; then Prodicus and Hippias strongly urged me, and the rest of them also.Well then, I said, I will try to explain to you my own feeling about this poem. Now philosophy is of more ancient and abundant growth in Crete and Lacedaemon than in any other part of Greece
Plato, Protagoras, section 342c (search)
by imitating them, bind their knuckles with thongs, go in for muscular exercises, and wear dashing little cloaks,Short cloaks or capes worn in a fashion imitated from the Spartans. as though it were by these means that the Spartans were the masters of Greece. And when the Spartans wish to converse unrestrainedly with their sophists, and begin to chafe at the secrecy of their meetings, they pass alien acts against the laconizing seti.e., people who have come to acquire the Spartan way of life, in order to spread it in other cities. and any other strangers within their gates, and have meetings with the sophists unknown to the foreigners; while on their part they do not permit any of their young men
Plato, Gorgias, section 461e (search)
SocratesIt would indeed be a hard fate for you, my excellent friend, if having come to Athens, where there is more freedom of speech than anywhere in Greece, you should be the one person there who could not enjoy it. But as a set-off to that, I ask you if it would not be just as hard on me, while you spoke at length and refused to answer my questions,
Plato, Gorgias, section 483e (search)
march against Greece, or his father against Scythia? Or take the countless other cases of the sort that one might mention. Why, surely these men follow nature—the nature of right—in acting thus; yes, on my soul, and follow the lawCallicles boldly applies the word no/mos, which so far has been used in the sense of man-made law or convention, in its widest sense of “general rule” or “principle.” of nature—though not that, I dare say, which is made by us; we mold the best and strongest amongst us, taking them from their infancy like young lions, and utterly enthral them