Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|       the judgment and to render men incapable of seeing the
 2 Euthyd|    Socrates himself (if the wise men will not laugh at him) is
 3 Euthyd|       summed up as follows:—~All men desire good; and good means
 4 Euthyd|        the kingly art only gives men those goods which are neither
 5 Euthyd|       Dionysodorus and all other men know all things. ‘Do they
 6 Euthyd|          remembering that if the men who are to be his teachers
 7 Euthyd|         only, but of all; nor of men only, but of dogs and sea-monsters.
 8 Euthyd|      those to be the happiest of men who have their skulls gilded
 9 Euthyd|  perverting the objects of both. Men like Antiphon or Lysias
10 Euthyd|        try and persuade some old men to accompany me to them,
11 Euthyd|      Cleinias: Here are two wise men, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus,
12 Euthyd|     taught; and that you are the men from whom he will best learn
13 Euthyd|     Dionysodorus, I said, of all men who are now living are the
14 Euthyd|         of two opposite sorts of men, of those who know, and
15 Euthyd|      when they asked you whether men learn what they know or
16 Euthyd|        only be able to play with men, tripping them up and oversetting
17 Euthyd|      question to you: Do not all men desire happiness? And yet,
18 Euthyd|         Then wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom
19 Euthyd|          I said: Seeing that all men desire happiness, and happiness,
20 Euthyd|         taught, he said.~Best of men, I said, I am delighted
21 Euthyd|          they speak evil of evil men. And if I may give you a
22 Euthyd|           whom I value above all men, to perish.~I saw that they
23 Euthyd|         they know how to destroy men in such a way as to make
24 Euthyd|        to make good and sensible men out of bad and foolish ones—
25 Euthyd|       with him. But if you young men do not like to trust yourselves
26 Euthyd|      such thing as ignorance, or men who are ignorant; for is
27 Euthyd|         teach virtue best of all men, to any one who was willing
28 Euthyd|       they are the words of wise men: and indeed I know not what
29 Euthyd|          of old.~Ctesippus said: Men of Chios, Thurii, or however
30 Euthyd| knowledge which was able to make men immortal, without giving
31 Euthyd|         to be very extraordinary men, Cleinias, and their art
32 Euthyd|        ecclesiasts and bodies of men, for the charming and pacifying
33 Euthyd|         does the kingly art make men wise and good?~CRITO: Why
34 Euthyd|    Socrates?~SOCRATES: What, all men, and in every respect? and
35 Euthyd|       which we are to make other men good?~CRITO: By all means.~
36 Euthyd|     things.~A pretty clatter, as men say, Euthydemus, this of
37 Euthyd|       blessing! And do all other men know all things or nothing?~
38 Euthyd|          not know you to be wise men.~But if you will answer,
39 Euthyd|     things, when I am told so by men of your prodigious wisdom—
40 Euthyd|          the father of all other men?~Of all other men, he replied.
41 Euthyd|          other men?~Of all other men, he replied. Do you suppose
42 Euthyd|         is, he replied.~What, of men only, said Ctesippus, or
43 Euthyd|        be deemed the happiest of men who has three talents of
44 Euthyd|          happiest and bravest of men (that is only another instance
45 Euthyd|     hands and rejoicings the two men were quite overpowered;
46 Euthyd|           there is a danger that men may undervalue an art which
47 Euthyd|          attention to these wise men?’ ‘No, indeed,’ I said to
48 Euthyd|          anybody might hear from men who were playing the fool,
49 Euthyd|          himself at the mercy of men who care not what they say,
50 Euthyd|         the study itself and the men themselves are utterly mean
51 Euthyd|      public discussion with such men, there, I confess that,
52 Euthyd|       Crito, they are marvellous men; but what was I going to
53 Euthyd|       they are the wisest of all men, and that they are generally
54 Euthyd|       evil seek to turn away all men from her, and not your sons