Euthyphro

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...

Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them?people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust,--about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

SOCRATES: They have differences of opinion, as you say, about good and evil, just and unjust, honourable and dishonourable: there would have been no quarrels among them, if there had been no such differences--would there now?

My meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a state of suffering because it suffers.

I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a relation and one who is not a relation; for surely the pollution is the same in either case,

He thinks that you are a neologian, and he is going to have you up before the court for this.

Now tell me best of friends" lmaoooo

For the one (what is dear to the gods) is of the sort to be loved because it is loved; the other (the holy), because it is of the sort to be loved, therefore is loved.

That in any city, and particularly in the city of Athens, it is easier to do men harm than to do them good;

The chief difference between us and them (the ancient Greeks) is, that they were slowly learning what we are in process of forgetting.

...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good gardener to give his attention first to the young plants, and after that to the others. - Socrates

Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is being loved by the gods?

Whenever you do something holy, you're improving one of the gods?

that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a state of suffering because it suffers.

what they love pious or holy; and what some of them love and others hate is both or neither. Shall this be our definition of piety and impiety?

In the course of the argument Socrates remarks that the controversial nature of morals and religion arises out of the difficulty of verifying them.