- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
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- The Winter's Tale
As Meno tries to formulate a definition of virtue, he suggests that the ability to “rule” is certainly part of what it means to be virtuous. Hearing this, Socrates says that it would be wise to add the words “justly and not unjustly” to this definition, since it’s possible to “rule” in a way that is oppressive, evil, and—thus—unvirtuous. Meno, for his part, likes this idea, eagerly positing that Socrates’s addition is a good one because “justice is virtue.” Before going on, though, Socrates stops to consider this notion, asking, “Is it virtue, Meno, or a virtue?” This is an…