Dialogue

 1 Charm|         denoting animals; but all things else, whether outward objects
 2 Charm|         genders are attributed to things as well as persons according
 3 Charm|           attributed Ideas to all things, at any rate to all things
 4 Charm|        things, at any rate to all things which have classes or common
 5 Charm|           the summa genera of all things, are now to be explained
 6 Charm|         as Forms or Types of some things only,—that is to say, of
 7 Charm|        imply that the relation of things to the Ideas, is one of
 8 Charm|       vision, but only of visible things; no love of loves, but only
 9 Charm|      loves, but only of beautiful things; how then can there be a
10 Charm|           rule and measure of all things, still there would be no
11 Charm|           which we ‘taste of many things.’ (7) And still the mind
12 Charm|          ought to be first in all things, and, sweet son of Glaucon,
13 Charm|      thought temperance was doing things orderly and quietly, such
14 Charm|         orderly and quietly, such things for example as walking in
15 Charm|           be the good. And of two things, one is true,—either never,
16 Charm|       least in this way, or doing things of this sort?~Clearly not.~
17 Charm|         by working and doing such things as you were describing,
18 Charm|          any disgrace at all. For things nobly and usefully made
19 Charm|      supposed to have called such things only man’s proper business,
20 Charm|           is not the discovery of things as they truly are, a good
21 Charm|          self as well as to other things involves an absolute contradiction;
22 Charm|          greater than other great things, but not greater than those
23 Charm|        but not greater than those things in comparison of which the
24 Charm|    younger: and the same of other things; that which has a nature
25 Charm|         relation to self, or some things only and not others; and
26 Charm|        this class of self-related things, if there be such a class,
27 Charm|        than determine that of two things one is and the other is
28 Charm| temperance: and the same of other things.~That is evident.~How will
29 Charm|          who is ignorant of these things will only know that he knows,
30 Charm|          not the knowledge of the things which we do or do not know,
31 Charm|         their severally doing the things which they knew, and committing
32 Charm|          knew, and committing the things of which they are ignorant
33 Charm|       dear Critias, none of these things will be well or beneficially
34 Charm|    admitted to be the best of all things would never have seemed