Dialogue

 1  Meno|         virtue of every age and state of life, all of which may
 2  Meno|         proved by ‘the wretched state of education,’ there may
 3  Meno|    abstract ideas in a previous state, they must have always had
 4  Meno|      exists not in the previous state of the individual, but of
 5  Meno| knowledge in a prior and future state of existence.~The difficulty
 6  Meno|     revealed to men in a former state of existence, and are recovered
 7  Meno|      Meno goes back to a former state of existence, in which men
 8  Meno|       known to them in a former state. The recollection is awakened
 9  Meno|        The notion of a previous state of existence is found in
10  Meno|        sought for in a previous state of existence. There was
11  Meno|         derived from a previous state of existence because they
12  Meno|      soul existed in a previous state, then it will exist in a
13  Meno|       it will exist in a future state, for a law of alternation
14  Meno|         recovered from a former state of existence. The metaphysical
15  Meno|      know how to administer the state, and in the administration
16  Meno|         of a man was to order a state, and the virtue of a woman
17  Meno|         And can either house or state or anything be well ordered
18  Meno| SOCRATES: Then they who order a state or a house temperately or
19  Meno|        office and honour in the state—those are what you would
20  Meno|         have been useful to the state?~MENO: Yes, Socrates, that
21  Meno|   virtue by which men order the state or the house, and honour
22  Meno|    spare the time from cares of state. Once more, I suspect, friend