Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|     distinguish between words and things—these were problems not
 2 Euthyd|           that words are lifeless things, and lifeless things have
 3 Euthyd|     lifeless things, and lifeless things have no sense or meaning.
 4 Euthyd|         know, he cannot know some things and not know others, and
 5 Euthyd|        and therefore he knows all things: he and Dionysodorus and
 6 Euthyd|        and all other men know all things. ‘Do they know shoemaking,
 7 Euthyd|         such solemn and beautiful things.~‘But are there any beautiful
 8 Euthyd|           are there any beautiful things? And if there are such,
 9 Euthyd|        that the union of two good things which have different ends
10 Euthyd|         put words in the place of things, who tear arguments to tatters,
11 Euthyd|           them as making two good things, philosophy and politics,
12 Euthyd|           did not as yet know the things which you were learning?~
13 Euthyd|        happy if we have many good things? And this, perhaps, is even
14 Euthyd|     answer.~He assented.~And what things do we esteem good? No solemn
15 Euthyd|        and fortunate if many good things were present with us?~He
16 Euthyd|           of the presence of good things, if they profited us not,
17 Euthyd|       must not only have the good things, but he must also use them;
18 Euthyd|         as the possession of good things, is that sufficient to confer
19 Euthyd|        off, having and doing many things without wisdom, or a few
20 Euthyd|          without wisdom, or a few things with wisdom? Look at the
21 Euthyd|      matter thus: If he did fewer things would he not make fewer
22 Euthyd|       this the result— that other things are indifferent, and that
23 Euthyd|           and a right use, of the things of life, and the right use
24 Euthyd|   distinct thing apart from other things?~Certainly.~And he who says
25 Euthyd|       Ctesippus; but he speaks of things in a certain way and manner,
26 Euthyd|        say that any one speaks of things as they are?~Yes, he said—
27 Euthyd|         persons.~And are not good things good, and evil things evil?~
28 Euthyd|        good things good, and evil things evil?~He assented.~And you
29 Euthyd|           that gentlemen speak of things as they are?~Yes.~Then the
30 Euthyd|           good speak evil of evil things, if they speak of them as
31 Euthyd|           And do they speak great things of the great, rejoined Euthydemus,
32 Euthyd|     rejoined Euthydemus, and warm things of the warm?~To be sure
33 Euthyd|          they are quite different things.~Contradiction! said Dionysodorus;
34 Euthyd|          said.~Well, have not all things words expressive of them?~
35 Euthyd|         Put the question.~Are the things which have sense alive or
36 Euthyd|        piloting and governing all things, and utilizing them.~CRITO:
37 Euthyd|          Yes, I said, I know many things, but not anything of much
38 Euthyd|         you are knowing, know all things?~Certainly not, I said,
39 Euthyd|          for there are many other things which I do not know.~And
40 Euthyd|          in reference to the same things.~A pretty clatter, as men
41 Euthyd|           time, and if I know all things, then I must have the knowledge
42 Euthyd|         two, do you not know some things, and not know others?~Certainly
43 Euthyd|        Then, I said, you know all things, if you know anything?~Yes,
44 Euthyd|           know anything?~Yes, all things, he said; and that is as
45 Euthyd|         do all other men know all things or nothing?~Certainly, he
46 Euthyd|    replied; they cannot know some things, and not know others, and
47 Euthyd|           said.~They all know all things, he replied, if they know
48 Euthyd|         really and truly know all things, including carpentering
49 Euthyd|    cobbling, too.~And do you know things such as the numbers of the
50 Euthyd|         our word that we know all things?~Certainly not, said Ctesippus:
51 Euthyd|     questions, that they knew all things. For at last Ctesippus began
52 Euthyd|          if they knew the foulest things, and they, like wild boars,
53 Euthyd|         and have always known all things, nothing in life would be
54 Euthyd|         knowing, do you know some things with this, and some things
55 Euthyd|        things with this, and some things with something else, or
56 Euthyd|          else, or do you know all things with this?~All that I know,
57 Euthyd|           you be able to know all things, if you did not know all
58 Euthyd|           if you did not know all things?~Quite impossible.~And now,
59 Euthyd|         confess that you know all things.~I suppose that is true,
60 Euthyd|       stand; and so I do know all things.~And have you not admitted
61 Euthyd|          that you always know all things with that which you know,
62 Euthyd|      always and at once known all things, that is to say, when you
63 Euthyd|       earth existed, you knew all things, if you always know them;
64 Euthyd|       always continue to know all things, if I am of the mind to
65 Euthyd|         that I really do know all things, when I am told so by men
66 Euthyd|        can I say that I know such things, Euthydemus, as that the
67 Euthyd|        the ambiguity of (Greek), ‘things visible and able to see,’ (
68 Euthyd|        there not a silence of all things?~Yes, he said.~But if speaking
69 Euthyd|          he said.~But if speaking things are included in all things,
70 Euthyd|        things are included in all things, then the speaking are silent.~
71 Euthyd|          said Ctesippus; then all things are not silent?~Certainly
72 Euthyd|        which I ask is whether all things are silent or speak?~Neither
73 Euthyd|         such solemn and beautiful things?~Why, Socrates, said Dionysodorus,
74 Euthyd|     impatient to hear); yes, such things, and such things only are
75 Euthyd|        yes, such things, and such things only are mine.~Yes, he said,
76 Euthyd|         the power to do all these things which I was just naming?~
77 Euthyd|            for you admit that all things which have life are animals;
78 Euthyd|         says, is the ‘best of all things,’ is also the cheapest.
79 Euthyd| intermediates. For all persons or things, which are intermediate
80 Euthyd|    intermediate between two other things, and participate in both
81 Euthyd|          them—if one of these two things is good and the other evil,
82 Euthyd|           a mean between two good things which do not tend to the