Dialogue

 1 Euthyd| difficulty to the half-educated man which spelling or arithmetic
 2 Euthyd|         is a father, not of one man only, but of all; nor of
 3 Euthyd|    Socrates asks what manner of man was this censorious critic. ‘
 4 Euthyd|         the character of an old man; and his equal in years,
 5 Euthyd|       somewhat uproarious young man. But the chief study of
 6 Euthyd|        law too, and can teach a man how to use the weapons of
 7 Euthyd|     better and quicker than any man.~My God! I said, and where
 8 Euthyd|      thing,—can you make a good man of him only who is already
 9 Euthyd|       make a trial of the young man, and converse with him in
10 Euthyd|          Socrates, if the young man is only willing to answer
11 Euthyd|     Cleinias, and answer like a man whichever you think; for
12 Euthyd|      playing with you. For if a man had all that sort of knowledge
13 Euthyd|         explaining to the young man how he is to apply himself
14 Euthyd|       to be asked by a sensible man: for what human being is
15 Euthyd|         that to act with a wise man is more fortunate than to
16 Euthyd|     fortunate: for by wisdom no man would ever err, and therefore
17 Euthyd|       Socrates.~Then, I said, a man who would be happy must
18 Euthyd| knowledge is that which gives a man not only good-fortune but
19 Euthyd|         do possessions profit a man, if he have neither good
20 Euthyd|       sense nor wisdom? Would a man be better off, having and
21 Euthyd|       who would do least—a poor man or a rich man?~A poor man.~
22 Euthyd|      least—a poor man or a rich man?~A poor man.~A weak man
23 Euthyd|       man or a rich man?~A poor man.~A weak man or a strong
24 Euthyd|         man?~A poor man.~A weak man or a strong man?~A weak
25 Euthyd|          A weak man or a strong man?~A weak man.~A noble man
26 Euthyd|         or a strong man?~A weak man.~A noble man or a mean man?~
27 Euthyd|        man?~A weak man.~A noble man or a mean man?~A mean man.~
28 Euthyd|      man.~A noble man or a mean man?~A mean man.~And a coward
29 Euthyd|       man or a mean man?~A mean man.~And a coward would do less
30 Euthyd|        courageous and temperate man?~Yes.~And an indolent man
31 Euthyd|       man?~Yes.~And an indolent man less than an active man?~
32 Euthyd|         man less than an active man?~He assented.~And a slow
33 Euthyd|         He assented.~And a slow man less than a quick; and one
34 Euthyd|        Yes, he said.~And when a man thinks that he ought to
35 Euthyd|  service or ministration to any man, whether a lover or not,
36 Euthyd|    taught, and does not come to man spontaneously; for this
37 Euthyd|     that wisdom only can make a man happy and fortunate, will
38 Euthyd|       improvement of this young man in virtue and wisdom is
39 Euthyd|        exhortation to the young man that he should practise
40 Euthyd|     were not far wrong; for the man, Crito, began a remarkable
41 Euthyd|        that you want this young man to become wise, are you
42 Euthyd|        them to get rid of a bad man and turn him into a good
43 Euthyd|       you may remember, that no man could affirm a negative;
44 Euthyd|      such thing as falsehood; a man must either say what is
45 Euthyd|       you seriously maintain no man to be ignorant?~Refute me,
46 Euthyd|         erroneous action, for a man cannot fail of acting as
47 Euthyd|        that you are a very wise man who comes to us in the character
48 Euthyd|    sense;—what do you say, wise man? If I was not in error,
49 Euthyd|       not one which will make a man happy. And yet I did think
50 Euthyd|        is most likely to make a man happy.~I do not think so,
51 Euthyd|       for if I am really a wise man, which I never knew before,
52 Euthyd|        I know with my soul.~The man will answer more than the
53 Euthyd|        the same father, my good man, I said, for Chaeredemus
54 Euthyd|     gold is not gold, or that a man is not a man?~They are not ‘
55 Euthyd|          or that a man is not a man?~They are not ‘in pari materia,’
56 Euthyd|         Neither I nor any other man; for tell me now, Ctesippus,
57 Euthyd|     think it good or evil for a man who is sick to drink medicine
58 Euthyd|       medicine to be good for a man to drink, when wanted, must
59 Euthyd|        replied.~And ought not a man then to have gold everywhere
60 Euthyd|      Nothing; but you, my sweet man, may perhaps imagine that
61 Euthyd|      The cook, I said.~And if a man does his business he does
62 Euthyd|      have not.~What a miserable man you must be then, he said;
63 Euthyd|     disciples discourse with no man but you and themselves.
64 Euthyd|        what was said to me by a man of very considerable pretensions—
65 Euthyd|         me know;—What manner of man was he who came up to you
66 Euthyd|       business, and is a clever man, and composes wonderful
67 Euthyd|      may be forgiven; for every man ought to be loved who says