Dialogue

 1  Meno|     definition of figure is far better.~Now that Meno has been
 2  Meno|    shock’ given him, and is the better for the operation. But whence
 3  Meno|       poetical language, to the better and truer one; or (2) the
 4  Meno|       remark that he is all the better for knowing his ignorance.~
 5  Meno|   paradoxes, it would have been better left to die out. It certainly
 6  Meno|     MENO: I should like nothing better.~SOCRATES: Do not he and
 7  Meno| thinking that the other was the better; and I am sure that you
 8  Meno|       to all, and one man is no better than another in that respect?~
 9  Meno| SOCRATES: And if one man is not better than another in desiring
10  Meno|       desiring good, he must be better in the power of attaining
11  Meno|       True.~SOCRATES: Is he not better off in knowing his ignorance?~
12  Meno|       SOCRATES: Then he was the better for the torpedo’s touch?~
13  Meno| confident. But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless
14  Meno|       ANYTUS: Certainly; no man better.~SOCRATES: And must not
15  Meno|       was his own son, to be no better than his neighbours in those
16  Meno|        train his son Lysimachus better than any other Athenian
17  Meno|         the result? Is he a bit better than any other mortal? He