Dialogue

 1 Euthyf|      men harm than to do them good;’ and Socrates was anticipating
 2 Euthyf|       gods? Especially, about good and evil, which have no
 3 Euthyf|    they are the givers of all good, how can we give them any
 4 Euthyf|      how can we give them any good in return? ‘Nay, but we
 5 Euthyf|   them in all things true and good, he stops short; this was
 6 Euthyf| serious charge, which shows a good deal of character in the
 7 Euthyf|       virtue in youth; like a good husbandman, he makes the
 8 Euthyf|     SOCRATES: Your father! my good man?~EUTHYPHRO: Yes.~SOCRATES:
 9 Euthyf|  piety and impiety.~SOCRATES: Good heavens, Euthyphro! and
10 Euthyf|     matters. What should I be good for without it?~SOCRATES:
11 Euthyf|       to them.~SOCRATES: Very good, Euthyphro; you have now
12 Euthyf|    example that you and I, my good friend, differ about a number;
13 Euthyf|      are the just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and
14 Euthyf|    opinion, as you say, about good and evil, just and unjust,
15 Euthyf|      deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of
16 Euthyf|      they find that you are a good speaker. There was a notion
17 Euthyf|      We shall know better, my good friend, in a little while.
18 Euthyf|     to men.~SOCRATES: That is good, Euthyphro; yet still there
19 Euthyf|       always designed for the good or benefit of that to which
20 Euthyf|  tended or attended for their good and not for their hurt?~
21 Euthyf|       SOCRATES: But for their good?~EUTHYPHRO: Of course.~SOCRATES:
22 Euthyf|       which I mean.~SOCRATES: Good: but I must still ask what
23 Euthyf| SOCRATES: And now tell me, my good friend, about the art which
24 Euthyf|   give to us; for there is no good thing which they do not
25 Euthyf|       but how we can give any good thing to them in return