Dialogue

 1 Charm|          show that he has made a good use of his Dictionary and
 2 Charm|      expect every man to have ‘a good coat of his own,’ and not
 3 Charm|         Homer: for temperance is good as well as noble, and Homer
 4 Charm|    declared that ‘modesty is not good for a needy man.’ (3) Once
 5 Charm|        and ‘work’ an exclusively good sense: Temperance is doing
 6 Charm|       own business;—(4) is doing good.~Still an element of knowledge
 7 Charm|          still there would be no good in this; and the knowledge
 8 Charm|          a kind which will do us good; for temperance is a good.
 9 Charm|        good; for temperance is a good. But this universal knowledge
10 Charm|        tend to our happiness and good: the only kind of knowledge
11 Charm|    happiness is the knowledge of good and evil. To this Critias
12 Charm|          science or knowledge of good and evil, and all the other
13 Charm|       conception of a science of good and evil also first occurs
14 Charm|  knowledge, and at last to unite good and truth in a single science.
15 Charm|        other writings identifies good and knowledge, here opposes
16 Charm|       own business, the doing of good actions, the dialogue passes
17 Charm|           or of the knowledge of good and evil. The dialogue represents
18 Charm|         matters, but only lead a good life;’ and yet in either
19 Charm|      Potidaea, and having been a good while away, I thought that
20 Charm|          this.~He is as fair and good within, as he is without,
21 Charm|          he said, laughing.~Very good, I said; and are you quite
22 Charm|          whole is well.’ For all good and evil, whether in the
23 Charm|     ought to excel others in all good qualities; for if I am not
24 Charm|       the class of the noble and good?~Yes.~But which is best
25 Charm|        quickness and agility are good; slowness, and inactivity,
26 Charm|   certainly.~And is temperance a good?~Yes.~Then, in reference
27 Charm|   temperance, if temperance is a good?~True, he said.~And which,
28 Charm|  temperate is supposed to be the good. And of two things, one
29 Charm|        is admitted by us to be a good and noble thing, and the
30 Charm|         have been shown to be as good as the quiet.~I think, he
31 Charm|        the same as modesty.~Very good, I said; and did you not
32 Charm|       And the temperate are also good?~Yes.~And can that be good
33 Charm|       good?~Yes.~And can that be good which does not make men
34 Charm|          which does not make men good?~Certainly not.~And you
35 Charm|         not only noble, but also good?~That is my opinion.~Well,
36 Charm|         he says,~‘Modesty is not good for a needy man’?~Yes, he
37 Charm|       that modesty is and is not good?~Clearly.~But temperance,
38 Charm|          presence makes men only good, and not bad, is always
39 Charm|           and not bad, is always good?~That appears to me to be
40 Charm|       modesty—if temperance is a good, and if modesty is as much
41 Charm|          is as much an evil as a good?~All that, Socrates, appears
42 Charm|      accept the definition.~Very good, I said; and now let me
43 Charm|       and that which is his own, good; and that the makings (Greek)
44 Charm|       the makings (Greek) of the good you would call doings (Greek),
45 Charm|          which you would use, of good actions, is temperance?~
46 Charm|       does evil, but he who does good, is temperate?~Yes, he said;
47 Charm|        he who does evil, and not good, is not temperate; and that
48 Charm|         he is temperate who does good, and not evil: for temperance
49 Charm|         words to be the doing of good actions.~And you may be
50 Charm|       who cures a patient may do good to himself and good to another
51 Charm|       may do good to himself and good to another also?~I think
52 Charm|        said, he may sometimes do good or harm, and not know what
53 Charm|         doing, and yet, in doing good, as you say, he has done
54 Charm|          as would seem, in doing good, he may act wisely or temperately,
55 Charm|         view, I ask of you, what good work, worthy of the name
56 Charm|      things as they truly are, a good common to all mankind?~Yes,
57 Charm|         wish which wishes for no good, but only for itself and
58 Charm|     would or would not do us any good; for I have an impression
59 Charm|    temperance is a benefit and a good. And therefore, O son of
60 Charm|        as this, would do us much good. For we were wrong, I think,
61 Charm|   certainly cannot make out what good this sort of thing does
62 Charm|      because the workmen will be good and true. Aye, and if you
63 Charm| knowledge with which he discerns good and evil.~Monster! I said;
64 Charm|        one science only, that of good and evil. For, let me ask
65 Charm|      done, if the science of the good be wanting.~True.~But that
66 Charm|          or of ignorance, but of good and evil: and if this be
67 Charm|        particular science of the good under her control, and in
68 Charm|        wisdom give advantage, my good friend; for that again we
69 Charm|        us useless, if I had been good for anything at an enquiry.
70 Charm|         should have no profit or good in life from your wisdom
71 Charm|     believe to be really a great good; and happy are you, Charmides,
72 Charm|          I have had enough.~Very good, Charmides, said Critias;