Dialogue

 1 Charm|      the author: ‘Temperance is doing one’s own business.’ But
 2 Charm|    temperate, and yet he is not doing his own business; and temperance
 3 Charm|    answer between ‘making’ and ‘doing,’ and with the help of a
 4 Charm|    Hesiod assigns to the words ‘doing’ and ‘work’ an exclusively
 5 Charm|       good sense: Temperance is doing one’s own business;—(4)
 6 Charm|      one’s own business;—(4) is doing good.~Still an element of
 7 Charm|      notion that temperance is ‘doing one’s own business,’ which
 8 Charm|      definition, ‘Temperance is doing one’s own business,’ is
 9 Charm|       to be quietness, modesty, doing our own business, the doing
10 Charm|     doing our own business, the doing of good actions, the dialogue
11 Charm|       he thought temperance was doing things orderly and quietly,
12 Charm|       said, ‘That temperance is doing our own business.’ Was he
13 Charm|      example, to be regarded as doing nothing when he reads or
14 Charm|        rather think that he was doing something.~And does the
15 Charm|         writing are the same as doing, you were doing what was
16 Charm|         same as doing, you were doing what was not your own business?~
17 Charm|        But they are the same as doing.~And the healing art, my
18 Charm|      building, and weaving, and doing anything whatever which
19 Charm|  clearly come under the head of doing?~Certainly.~And do you think
20 Charm|     this principle of every one doing and performing his own,
21 Charm| temperance, I said, will not be doing one’s own business; not
22 Charm|        at least in this way, or doing things of this sort?~Clearly
23 Charm|        that temperance is a man doing his own business had another
24 Charm|       the meaning of the words ‘doing his own business.’~I dare
25 Charm|         is the meaning of a man doing his own business? Can you
26 Charm|      definition of temperance, ‘doing one’s own business,’ and
27 Charm|         do you mean to say that doing and making are not the same?~
28 Charm|        had meant by working and doing such things as you were
29 Charm|       distinguished making from doing and work; and, while admitting
30 Charm|  plainer. Do you mean that this doing or making, or whatever is
31 Charm|        in plain words to be the doing of good actions.~And you
32 Charm| craftsmen might be temperate in doing another’s work, as well
33 Charm|   another’s work, as well as in doing their own?~I was, he replied;
34 Charm|         by the work which he is doing?~I suppose not.~Then, I
35 Charm|         know what he is himself doing, and yet, in doing good,
36 Charm|      himself doing, and yet, in doing good, as you say, he has
37 Charm|         Then, as would seem, in doing good, he may act wisely
38 Charm|    aware: and that you are only doing what you denied that you
39 Charm|        you denied that you were doing just now, trying to refute
40 Charm|     obtain from their severally doing the things which they knew,