Excerpt from Plato I, With an English Translation: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Phaedrus Though he seems, in his usual talk, to have professed no positive doctrine, there were one or two beliefs which be frequently declared. Virtue, he said, is knowledge for each man's good is his happiness, and once he knows it clearly, he needs must choose to ensue it. Further, this knowledge 13 1unate in our minds, and we only need to have it awakened and exercised by dialectic, or a system atic course of question and answer. He also be lieved his mission to be divinely ordained, and asserted that his own actions were guided at times by the prohibitions of a Spiritual sign. He was capable, as we find in the Symposium, of standing in rapt meditation at any moment for some time, and once for as long as twenty-four hours. About the Publisher This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.