Dialogue

 1  Meno|           virtue is to delight in things honourable, and to have
 2  Meno|            and seen and known all things at one time or other, is
 3  Meno|          in this world, is of all things the most divine. Yet, like
 4  Meno|     afterwards, ‘I have said some things of which I am not altogether
 5  Meno|          philosophy says that all things in nature are dependent
 6  Meno|           and desire of attaining things honourable,’ like the first
 7  Meno|         association from sensible things. The sensible things are
 8  Meno|     sensible things. The sensible things are not realities, but shadows
 9  Meno|       they are also the causes of things; and they are even transformed
10  Meno|          He was good’ created all things (Tim.).~It would be a mistake
11  Meno| consciousness by the sight of the things which resemble them on earth.
12  Meno|          alternation pervades all things.’ And, ‘If the ideas exist,
13  Meno|           soul, he adds, ‘Of some things which I have said I am not
14  Meno|       that there are ideas of all things, but the manner in which
15  Meno|        the infinite, in which all things repose; and herein lies
16  Meno|       degree affect the nature of things. Still less did he remark
17  Meno|         science’ (Symp.), and all things, like the stars in heaven,
18  Meno|      notion of virtue as of other things.~SOCRATES: No wonder; but
19  Meno|        can, for you know that all things have a common notion. Suppose
20  Meno|           Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power
21  Meno|        men and women who spoke of things divine that—~MENO: What
22  Meno|          also, who spoke of these things by inspiration, like Pindar,
23  Meno|        times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this
24  Meno|          the soul has learned all things; there is no difficulty
25  Meno|           And if the truth of all things always existed in the soul,
26  Meno|       like what I am saying. Some things I have said of which I am
27  Meno|          profitable; for all good things are profitable?~MENO: Yes.~
28  Meno|           let us see what are the things which severally profit us.
29  Meno|           SOCRATES: And yet these things may also sometimes do us
30  Meno|         of apprehension; whatever things are learned or done with
31  Meno|       prudence, since none of the things of the soul are either profitable
32  Meno|           or wrongly; just as the things of the soul herself are
33  Meno|           human nature? All other things hang upon the soul, and
34  Meno|       hang upon the soul, and the things of the soul herself hang
35  Meno|          be the teachers of these things; but I learn from you that
36  Meno|          do many other marvellous things; and in anything which could
37  Meno|           good education in other things, he trained in wrestling,
38  Meno|        whose children were taught things for which he had to spend
39  Meno|       with me. There are not many things which I profess to know,
40  Meno|        are the guides of man; for things which happen by chance are
41  Meno|       Then of two good and useful things, one, which is knowledge,
42  Meno|        and also prophets say many things truly, but they know not
43  Meno|     condition they say many grand things, not knowing what they say.~