Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|        of virtue, Socrates, he replied, is our principal occupation;
 2 Euthyd|    same time encouraging tone, replied: There can be no objection,
 3 Euthyd|   quite accustomed to do so, I replied; for his friends often come
 4 Euthyd|       the dictation?~The wise, replied Cleinias.~Then after all
 5 Euthyd|        questions, Socrates, he replied—inevitable.~I see the reason,
 6 Euthyd|    asked.~Fortune, Cleinias, I replied; which all, even the most
 7 Euthyd|     the meaning of this, and I replied: Surely wisdom is good-fortune;
 8 Euthyd|     they are nothing?~That, he replied, is obvious.~What then is
 9 Euthyd| Cleinias to perish?~Euthydemus replied: And do you think, Ctesippus,
10 Euthyd|       am not, Dionysodorus, he replied; for I love you and am giving
11 Euthyd|         Certainly there is, he replied; there can be no question
12 Euthyd|     impossible?~Impossible, he replied.~Are you saying this as
13 Euthyd|      is what you mean?~Yes, he replied.~And now, I said, I will
14 Euthyd|        any other sense.~No, he replied, they mean what you say.
15 Euthyd|        our conclusion?~Yes, he replied.~And philosophy is the acquisition
16 Euthyd|     say so? I asked.~I see, he replied, that there are some composers
17 Euthyd|       But I think that I do, I replied.~And what is your notion?
18 Euthyd|      you know nothing?~Nay, he replied, we do know something.~Then,
19 Euthyd|      or nothing?~Certainly, he replied; they cannot know some things,
20 Euthyd|        all know all things, he replied, if they know one thing.~
21 Euthyd|      his blows, and fearlessly replied that they did. At last,
22 Euthyd|     could dance.~Certainly, he replied.~And can he vault among
23 Euthyd|       meaning, he said.~Yes, I replied.~Well, then, answer according
24 Euthyd|        with something.~Again I replied, Through ignorance I have
25 Euthyd|       another thing?~Always, I replied, when I know, I know with
26 Euthyd|       this?~All that I know, I replied, I know with this.~There
27 Euthyd|     have made a mistake?~What, replied Dionysodorus in a moment;
28 Euthyd|     that he is not a father, I replied.~For if, said Euthydemus,
29 Euthyd|      men?~Of all other men, he replied. Do you suppose the same
30 Euthyd|   father of all.~But he is, he replied.~What, of men only, said
31 Euthyd|     charming puzzles.~That, he replied, you will discover, if you
32 Euthyd|       be a good?~Certainly, he replied.~And ought not a man then
33 Euthyd|    thing?~Yes, Dionysodorus, I replied, I have seen many.~Were
34 Euthyd|        with you?~God forbid, I replied.~But how, he said, by reason
35 Euthyd|   heart was set.~Of course, he replied, I and all the world are