Dialogue

 1 Charm|      letters, we expect every man to have ‘a good coat of
 2 Charm|   human nature which ‘makes a man his own master,’ according
 3 Charm|       is not good for a needy man.’ (3) Once more Charmides
 4 Charm|     artisan who makes another man’s shoes may be temperate,
 5 Charm|       the knowledge of what a man knows and of what he does
 6 Charm|  Critias, who is the grown-up man of the world, having a tincture
 7 Charm|       we might say to a young man who is disturbed by theological
 8 Charm|     he must be almost a young man.~You will see, he said,
 9 Charm|       that temperance makes a man ashamed or modest, and that
10 Charm|       is not good for a needy man’?~Yes, he said; I agree.~
11 Charm|     law which compelled every man to weave and wash his own
12 Charm| declared that temperance is a man doing his own business had
13 Charm|       thought him a very wise man.~Then I am quite certain
14 Charm|      what is the meaning of a man doing his own business?
15 Charm|      should not wonder if the man himself who used this phrase
16 Charm|       called such things only man’s proper business, and what
17 Charm|    Hesiod, and any other wise man, may be reasonably supposed
18 Charm|     that which is proper to a man, and that which is his own,
19 Charm|      rather than admit that a man can be temperate or wise
20 Charm|    Then the wise or temperate man, and he only, will know
21 Charm|      and self-knowledge—for a man to know what he knows, and
22 Charm|     by others. And some great man, my friend, is wanted, who
23 Charm|     not doubt, I said, that a man will know himself, when
24 Charm|   simple.~Very true.~And if a man knows only, and has only
25 Charm|      in this way: If the wise man or any other man wants to
26 Charm|     the wise man or any other man wants to distinguish the
27 Charm|        Exactly.~Then the wise man may indeed know that the
28 Charm|    and therefore not the wise man; he would have to be a physician
29 Charm|   physician as well as a wise man.~Very true.~Then, assuredly,
30 Charm|  supposing at first, the wise man had been able to distinguish
31 Charm|       I replied; and yet if a man has any feeling of what
32 Charm|  wanted to show that the wise man had knowledge of what he
33 Charm|        the impossibility of a man knowing in a sort of way