Dialogue

 1 Charm| Charmides, who is also the most temperate of human beings, is asked
 2 Charm|      another man’s shoes may be temperate, and yet he is not doing
 3 Charm|    labour which exists in every temperate or well-ordered state. How
 4 Charm|         knowledge that the more temperate he is the happier he will
 5 Charm|         you that he is the most temperate of human beings, and for
 6 Charm|     temperance already, and are temperate enough, in that case you
 7 Charm|       if I affirm that I am not temperate, that would be a strange
 8 Charm|         he tells you, that I am temperate: but, on the other hand,
 9 Charm|   affirm that the quiet are the temperate; but let us see whether
10 Charm|       not quietness, nor is the temperate life quiet,— certainly not
11 Charm|     view; for the life which is temperate is supposed to be the good.
12 Charm|     will the quiet life be more temperate than the unquiet, seeing
13 Charm|     certainly, he said.~And the temperate are also good?~Yes.~And
14 Charm|         he said.~But, I said, a temperate state will be a well-ordered
15 Charm|       others also.~And are they temperate, seeing that they make not
16 Charm|         of others should not be temperate.~Nay (The English reader
17 Charm|      the business of others are temperate? I said, those who make,
18 Charm|        but he who does good, is temperate?~Yes, he said; and you,
19 Charm|      evil, and not good, is not temperate; and that he is temperate
20 Charm|       temperate; and that he is temperate who does good, and not evil:
21 Charm|        whether you imagine that temperate men are ignorant of their
22 Charm|         that craftsmen might be temperate in doing another’s work,
23 Charm|     temperately, and be wise or temperate, but not know his own wisdom
24 Charm|         admit that a man can be temperate or wise who does not know
25 Charm|        that the exhortation ‘Be temperate!’ would be a far better
26 Charm|      word which he hears is ‘Be temperate!’ This, however, like a
27 Charm|          Know thyself!’ and ‘Be temperate!’ are the same, as I maintain,
28 Charm|       he said.~Then the wise or temperate man, and he only, will know
29 Charm|  assured that the more wise and temperate you are, the happier you