Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|      Euthydemus, ‘who learn, the wise or the unwise?’ ‘The wise,’
 2 Euthyd|        wise or the unwise?’ ‘The wise,’ is the reply; given with
 3 Euthyd|        did not know and were not wise.’ Then Dionysodorus takes
 4 Euthyd|          the grammar-master; the wise or the foolish boys?’ ‘The
 5 Euthyd|          the foolish boys?’ ‘The wise.’ ‘Then, after all, the
 6 Euthyd|             Then, after all, the wise learn.’ ‘And do they learn,’
 7 Euthyd|         Socrates himself (if the wise men will not laugh at him)
 8 Euthyd|         and business are not the wise also the fortunate? This
 9 Euthyd|          You want Cleinias to be wise?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And he is not
10 Euthyd|             Yes.’ ‘And he is not wise yet?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then you want
11 Euthyd|         further that it makes us wise, in what does it make us
12 Euthyd|          in what does it make us wise? Not in special arts, such
13 Euthyd|        to Cleinias: Here are two wise men, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus,
14 Euthyd|          Dionysodorus, Cleinias, wise not in a small but in a
15 Euthyd|          are those who learn the wise or the ignorant?~The youth,
16 Euthyd|       those who learned were the wise.~Euthydemus proceeded: There
17 Euthyd|        No, he said.~And were you wise then?~No, indeed, he said.~
18 Euthyd|        said.~But if you were not wise you were unlearned?~Certainly.~
19 Euthyd|     unlearned learn, and not the wise, Cleinias, as you imagine.~
20 Euthyd|   anything to you, were they the wise boys or the unlearned who
21 Euthyd|       learned the dictation?~The wise, replied Cleinias.~Then
22 Euthyd|     Cleinias.~Then after all the wise are the learners and not
23 Euthyd|      fortunate on the whole than wise pilots?~None, certainly.~
24 Euthyd|       the risk—in company with a wise general, or with a foolish
25 Euthyd|       with a foolish one?~With a wise one.~And if you were ill,
26 Euthyd|         in a dangerous illness—a wise physician, or an ignorant
27 Euthyd| physician, or an ignorant one?~A wise one.~You think, I said,
28 Euthyd|         said, that to act with a wise man is more fortunate than
29 Euthyd|          try and make himself as wise as he can?~Yes, he said.~
30 Euthyd|         this young man to become wise, are you in jest or in real
31 Euthyd|          wish Cleinias to become wise?~Undoubtedly.~And he is
32 Euthyd|       Undoubtedly.~And he is not wise as yet?~At least his modesty
33 Euthyd|          him, he said, to become wise and not, to be ignorant?~
34 Euthyd|   destroy the youth and make him wise, and all of us with him.
35 Euthyd|        for they are the words of wise men: and indeed I know not
36 Euthyd|      suppose that you are a very wise man who comes to us in the
37 Euthyd|         sir, you admit that I am wise, answer as I tell you.~I
38 Euthyd|          sense;—what do you say, wise man? If I was not in error,
39 Euthyd|         science ought to make us wise, and impart knowledge to
40 Euthyd|          the kingly art make men wise and good?~CRITO: Why not,
41 Euthyd|         I did not know you to be wise men.~But if you will answer,
42 Euthyd|       this, for if I am really a wise man, which I never knew
43 Euthyd|   thinking of when he begat such wise sons? much good has this
44 Euthyd|          of this;—and if you are wise, you will also bid your
45 Euthyd|     giving no attention to these wise men?’ ‘No, indeed,’ I said