Dialogue

 1  Meno|      has forgotten what Gorgias said. Will Meno tell him his
 2  Meno|         legendary Pythagoras is said to have sacrificed a hecatomb—
 3  Meno|       possessed of it cannot be said to be men of science or
 4  Meno| immediately afterwards, ‘I have said some things of which I am
 5  Meno|        and Phaedrus. Nothing is said of the pre-existence of
 6  Meno|        some things which I have said I am not altogether confident’ (
 7  Meno|        Plato himself would have said that ‘he was not confident
 8  Meno|        that part of it which is said to be based upon experience,
 9  Meno| infinite substance. As Socrates said that virtue is knowledge,
10  Meno|       and that you know what he said: please, therefore, to remind
11  Meno|         to remind me of what he said; or, if you would rather,
12  Meno|         do. And the same may be said of vice, Socrates (Compare
13  Meno|         SOCRATES: And if he had said, Tell me what they are?—
14  Meno|      were not compelled, as you said yesterday, to go away before
15  Meno|        justice and the like are said by you to be parts of virtue.~
16  Meno|      saying. Some things I have said of which I am not altogether
17  Meno|   SOCRATES: And the same may be said of temperance and quickness
18  Meno|       And might not the same be said of flute-playing, and of
19  Meno|      Yes.~SOCRATES: But when we said that a man cannot be a good
20  Meno|       nature of virtue, when we said that knowledge only is the
21  Meno|      statesmen above all may be said to be divine and illumined,
22  Meno|       be such an one, he may be said to be among the living what