Excellence and virtue
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
excellence · good citizen · good men · goodness · honorable · justice · kingly · moderation · virtue · wisdom
spoken of as
1 expressionVirtue and excellence1 mention
Memorabilia (Greek)
Yes, I do, Socrates, answered Euthydemus, that kind of excellence I greatly desire.
in the texts
Antidosis
The moral qualities by which citizens, pupils, generals, and teachers should be judged.
For if you suppose that I was their counsellor and teacher, I should deserve from you greater gratitude than those who are maintained in the Prytaneum in recognition of excellence;
All these men were crowned by Athens with chaplets of gold, not because they were covetous of other people’s possessions, but because they were honorable men and had spent large sums of their private fortunes upon the city.
If any of those who have been associated with me have turned out to be good men in their relations to the state, to their friends, and to their own households—I ask you to give them the praise and not to be grateful to me on their account;
Memorabilia
Moral excellence that makes people useful, beneficent, politically capable, and better in soul.
Yes, I do, Socrates, answered Euthydemus, that kind of excellence I greatly desire.
but clearly his heart was set not on those who were fair to outward view, but on those whose souls excelled in goodness.
Why, cried Socrates, it is the noblest kind of excellence, the greatest of arts that you covet, for it belongs to kings and is dubbed kingly.