Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|       forgetting the virtues and wisdom. And yet in this enumeration
 2 Euthyd|        good fortune when we have wisdom already:—in every art and
 3 Euthyd|          nor evil— knowledge and wisdom are the only good, and ignorance
 4 Euthyd|  conclusion is that we must get ‘wisdom.’ But can wisdom be taught? ‘
 5 Euthyd|       must get ‘wisdom.’ But can wisdom be taught? ‘Yes,’ says Cleinias.
 6 Euthyd|        his great puzzles. ‘Since wisdom is the only good, he must
 7 Euthyd|         philosopher, or lover of wisdom.’ ‘That I will,’ says Cleinias.~
 8 Euthyd|       your father got out of the wisdom of his puppies.’~‘But,’
 9 Euthyd|     Ctesippus, imitating the new wisdom, replies, ‘And do not the
10 Euthyd|          criticise severely this wisdom,—not sparing Socrates himself
11 Euthyd|        great notion of their own wisdom; for they imagine themselves
12 Euthyd|        and what is their line of wisdom?~SOCRATES: As to their origin,
13 Euthyd|       these regions. As to their wisdom, about which you ask, Crito,
14 Euthyd|      only the beginning of their wisdom, but they have at last carried
15 Euthyd|       they had none of their new wisdom. I am only apprehensive
16 Euthyd|        me a description of their wisdom, that I may know beforehand
17 Euthyd|      small but in a large way of wisdom, for they know all about
18 Euthyd|       you intend to exhibit your wisdom; or what will you do?~That
19 Euthyd|         exhibit the power of his wisdom. Then I said: O Euthydemus
20 Euthyd|      task of rehearsing infinite wisdom, and therefore, like the
21 Euthyd|           in an ecstasy at their wisdom, gave vent to another peal
22 Euthyd|          the study of virtue and wisdom? And I will first show you
23 Euthyd|          I am eager to hear your wisdom: and I must therefore ask
24 Euthyd|        shall we find a place for wisdom—among the goods or not?~
25 Euthyd|      this, and I replied: Surely wisdom is good-fortune; even a
26 Euthyd|  ignorant one?~He assented.~Then wisdom always makes men fortunate:
27 Euthyd|      makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man would ever err, and
28 Euthyd|      rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.~
29 Euthyd|           or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.~We contrived
30 Euthyd|      conclusion, that he who had wisdom had no need of fortune.
31 Euthyd|      have neither good sense nor wisdom? Would a man be better off,
32 Euthyd|        doing many things without wisdom, or a few things with wisdom?
33 Euthyd|     wisdom, or a few things with wisdom? Look at the matter thus:
34 Euthyd|       when under the guidance of wisdom and prudence, they are greater
35 Euthyd|        are indifferent, and that wisdom is the only good, and ignorance
36 Euthyd|      them that they would impart wisdom to you, is not at all dishonourable,
37 Euthyd|        not, if his aim is to get wisdom. Do you agree? I said.~Yes,
38 Euthyd|          said, Cleinias, if only wisdom can be taught, and does
39 Euthyd|          I think, Socrates, that wisdom can be taught, he said.~
40 Euthyd|      investigation as to whether wisdom can be taught or not. But
41 Euthyd|       But now, as you think that wisdom can be taught, and that
42 Euthyd|          can be taught, and that wisdom only can make a man happy
43 Euthyd|          all of us ought to love wisdom, and you individually will
44 Euthyd|          young man in virtue and wisdom is a matter which we have
45 Euthyd|          that he should practise wisdom and virtue. Dionysodorus,
46 Euthyd|         and excellent devices of wisdom; I am afraid that I hardly
47 Euthyd|          refute me, and all your wisdom will be non-plussed; but
48 Euthyd|        by men of your prodigious wisdom—how can I say that I know
49 Euthyd|     prevent me from learning the wisdom of Euthydemus.~Then answer
50 Euthyd|          puppies got out of this wisdom of yours.~But neither he
51 Euthyd|       touched: so that here your wisdom is strangely mistaken; please,
52 Euthyd|      them; for there has been no wisdom like theirs in our time.
53 Euthyd|       said, this is the crown of wisdom; can I ever hope to have
54 Euthyd|         I ever hope to have such wisdom of my own?~And would you
55 Euthyd|      Socrates, to recognize this wisdom when it has become your
56 Euthyd| Euthydemus is the top, of all my wisdom.~Is not that which you would
57 Euthyd|     never seen the like of their wisdom; I was their devoted servant,
58 Euthyd|       their title to the palm of wisdom, for that they are themselves
59 Euthyd|      they entertain of their own wisdom is very natural; for they
60 Euthyd|      certain amount of political wisdom; there is reason in what
61 Euthyd|         reap the fruits of their wisdom.~CRITO: What do you say
62 Euthyd|    anything which is at all like wisdom: at the same time we shall