Dialogue

 1 Charm|      master,’ according to the definition of the Republic. In the
 2 Charm|  attempt. This time he gives a definition which he has heard, and
 3 Charm| generally, proposes as a fifth definition, (5) Temperance is self-knowledge.
 4 Charm|    philosophy) is given as the definition, not of temperance, but
 5 Charm|   exhibited by Socrates of any definition of temperance in which an
 6 Charm|        to be the author of the definition which he has so great an
 7 Charm|     maintaining. The preceding definition, ‘Temperance is doing one’
 8 Charm|        you think about another definition of temperance, which I just
 9 Charm|  certain that he put forth his definition as a riddle, thinking that
10 Charm|        that the author of this definition of temperance did not understand
11 Charm|       with him, and accept his definition of temperance, I would much
12 Charm|      truth or falsehood of the definition.~I entirely agree, said
13 Charm|        Critias, and accept the definition.~Very good, I said; and
14 Charm|       on his who proposes as a definition of temperance, ‘doing one’
15 Charm|     and fiction to be the true definition of temperance or wisdom: