Dialogue

 1  Meno|       imparted their own political wisdom; but no one ever heard that
 2  Meno|         world below,—‘he alone has wisdom, but the rest flit like
 3  Meno|        desirous of contrasting the wisdom which governs the world
 4  Meno|            the world with a higher wisdom. There are many instincts,
 5  Meno|           equally famous for their wisdom, especially at Larisa, which
 6  Meno| Thessalians, fell in love with his wisdom. And he has taught you the
 7  Meno|          of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated
 8  Meno|         Courage and temperance and wisdom and magnanimity are virtues;
 9  Meno|            mighty men and great in wisdom and are called saintly heroes
10  Meno|         when under the guidance of wisdom, ends in happiness; but
11  Meno|          be profitable, it must be wisdom or prudence, since none
12  Meno|         hurtful by the addition of wisdom or of folly; and therefore
13  Meno|           virtue must be a sort of wisdom or prudence?~MENO: I quite
14  Meno|         when under the guidance of wisdom and harmed by folly?~MENO:
15  Meno|         the soul herself hang upon wisdom, if they are to be good;
16  Meno|        they are to be good; and so wisdom is inferred to be that which
17  Meno|            either wholly or partly wisdom?~MENO: I think that what
18  Meno|     desires to attain that kind of wisdom and virtue by which men
19  Meno|          again, magnificent in his wisdom; and he, as you are aware,
20  Meno|            SOCRATES: If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as
21  Meno|            if it was taught it was wisdom?~MENO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
22  Meno|            not taught, and was not wisdom?~MENO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
23  Meno|           And therefore not by any wisdom, and not because they were