Dialogue

 1 Charm|          as a dialogue, of which Socrates is the central figure, and
 2 Charm|        the Republic the platonic Socrates speaks of ‘a longer and
 3 Charm|         universal definitions of Socrates, and at the same time ‘of
 4 Charm|         intellectual element (as Socrates is also said to have identified (
 5 Charm|        human beings, is asked by Socrates, ‘What is Temperance?’ He
 6 Charm|          has heard, and of which Socrates conjectures that Critias
 7 Charm|       admit at the suggestion of Socrates; and, in the spirit of Socrates
 8 Charm|  Socrates; and, in the spirit of Socrates and of Greek life generally,
 9 Charm|          knowledge of knowledge. Socrates replies by again dividing
10 Charm|         with the speculations of Socrates.~In this Dialogue may be
11 Charm| impatience which is exhibited by Socrates of any definition of temperance
12 Charm|         however, are disputed by Socrates, who asks cui bono?) as
13 Charm|       youth Charmides, with whom Socrates talks in the kindly spirit
14 Charm|        not the disciple, both of Socrates and of the Sophists. In
15 Charm|  sometimes nearer the truth than Socrates. Nothing in his language
16 Charm|   contrasts with the humility of Socrates. Nor in Charmides himself
17 Charm|          need of the charm which Socrates is unable to apply. With
18 Charm|      entering into the spirit of Socrates, he enjoys the detection
19 Charm|      Critias (Theaet.; Euthyd.). Socrates preserves his accustomed
20 Charm|    perverted by the ingenuity of Socrates, and hardly rescued by an
21 Charm|         PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator, Charmides,
22 Charm|      saying, How did you escape, Socrates?—(I should explain that
23 Charm|          crowd. Of the beauties, Socrates, he said, I fancy that you
24 Charm|        What do you think of him, Socrates? Has he not a beautiful
25 Charm|      consent?~With your consent, Socrates, he said, laughing.~Very
26 Charm|        mind: and I can tell you, Socrates, that Charmides is not only
27 Charm|         quiet.~I think, he said, Socrates, that you are right.~Then
28 Charm|          he said: My opinion is, Socrates, that temperance makes a
29 Charm|        evil as a good?~All that, Socrates, appears to me to be true;
30 Charm|      There you are in the right, Socrates, he replied.~To be sure,
31 Charm|         house of ill-fame? That, Socrates, is not to be supposed:
32 Charm|         or temperance?~But that, Socrates, he said, is impossible;
33 Charm|        advice. Shall I tell you, Socrates, why I say all this? My
34 Charm|         of pursuing the enquiry, Socrates, he said; for wisdom is
35 Charm|      falling into the old error, Socrates, he said. You come asking
36 Charm|         mankind?~Yes, certainly, Socrates, he said.~Then, I said,
37 Charm|       minding whether Critias or Socrates is the person refuted; attend
38 Charm|    greater than something else? (Socrates is intending to show that
39 Charm|          less than itself?~That, Socrates, he said, is the inevitable
40 Charm|          so we were saying?~Yes, Socrates, he said; and that I think
41 Charm|          does not know?~Because, Socrates, they are the same.~Very
42 Charm|     think not.~How very strange, Socrates!~By the dog of Egypt, I
43 Charm|       giving no advantage?~That, Socrates, is certainly inconceivable.~
44 Charm|         sure that I do not know, Socrates, whether I have or have
45 Charm|          And further, I am sure, Socrates, that I do need the charm,
46 Charm|        yourself to be charmed by Socrates, and never desert him at