Dialogue

 1 Phileb|            parents. To no rational man could the circumstance that
 2 Phileb|          the world. Reasoning from man to the universe, he argues
 3 Phileb|         from the extreme case of a man suffering pain from hunger
 4 Phileb|      consciousness of pleasure; no man can be happy who, to borrow
 5 Phileb|          to abstract unities (e.g.‘man,’ ‘good’) and with the attempt
 6 Phileb|           concerning which a young man often runs wild in his first
 7 Phileb|            some one who was a wise man, or more than man, comprehended
 8 Phileb|           a wise man, or more than man, comprehended them all in
 9 Phileb|         memory of pleasure, when a man is in pain, is the memory
10 Phileb|           first of all, ‘This is a man,’ and then say, ‘No, this
11 Phileb|       never wanting in the mind of man. Now these hopes, as they
12 Phileb|            we admit, with the wise man whom Protarchus loves (and
13 Phileb|  Protarchus loves (and only a wise man could have ever entertained
14 Phileb|          Yes.’ And yet the envious man finds something pleasing
15 Phileb|        ignorance is self-conceit—a man may fancy himself richer,
16 Phileb|       estimation of every rational man is dialectic, or the science
17 Phileb|           us to find our way home; man cannot live upon pure mathematics
18 Phileb|     attempts at self-preservation:—Man is not man in that he resembles,
19 Phileb|      self-preservation:—Man is not man in that he resembles, but
20 Phileb|          upon the social nature of man; this sense of duty is shared
21 Phileb|     ourselves, and also that every man must live before he can
22 Phileb|           perfected, the friend of man himself has generally the
23 Phileb|           and various. The mind of man has been more than usually
24 Phileb|           active in thinking about man. The conceptions of harmony,
25 Phileb|      should hardly say that a good man could be utterly miserable (
26 Phileb|            Ethics), or place a bad man in the first rank of happiness.
27 Phileb|    circumstances, the measure of a man’s happiness may be out of
28 Phileb|         insist on calling the good man alone happy, we shall be
29 Phileb|            go a long way round. No man is indignant with a thief
30 Phileb| distracting to the conscience of a man to be told that in the particular
31 Phileb|         faith or love. The upright man of the world will desire
32 Phileb|            belief that the good of man is also the will of God.
33 Phileb|              England expects every man to do his duty.’ These are
34 Phileb|          rights of persons; ‘Every man to count for one and no
35 Phileb|            to count for one and no man for more than one,’ ‘Every
36 Phileb|         for more than one,’ ‘Every man equal in the eye of the
37 Phileb|           a perversion of them. No man’s thoughts were ever so
38 Phileb|            or of the one ‘sensible man’ or ‘superior person.’ His
39 Phileb|           hopes, and that the wise man has pleasure in his wisdom?
40 Phileb|         the assertion is made that man is one, or ox is one, or
41 Phileb|         never grows old. Any young man, when he first tastes these
42 Phileb|          of sounds is what makes a man a grammarian.~PROTARCHUS:
43 Phileb|            knowledge which makes a man a musician is of the same
44 Phileb|       SOCRATES: Some god or divine man, who in the Egyptian legend
45 Phileb|     Socrates. Happy would the wise man be if he knew all things,
46 Phileb|        would be the life, not of a man, but of an oyster or ‘pulmo
47 Phileb|        sufficient nor eligible for man or for animal.~SOCRATES:
48 Phileb|     PROTARCHUS: Why, how could any man who gave any other be deemed
49 Phileb|            Why, you know that if a man chooses the life of wisdom,
50 Phileb|            anything when we say ‘a man thirsts’?~PROTARCHUS: Yes.~
51 Phileb|            SOCRATES: But how can a man who is empty for the first
52 Phileb|           something in the thirsty man which in some way apprehends
53 Phileb|           the two pains? May not a man who is empty have at one
54 Phileb|          Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then man and the other animals have
55 Phileb|           so.~SOCRATES: But when a man is empty and has no hope
56 Phileb|  PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES: And a man must be pleased by something?~
57 Phileb|        whisper to himself—‘It is a man.’~PROTARCHUS: Very good.~
58 Phileb|          do this?~SOCRATES: When a man, besides receiving from
59 Phileb|            just and pious and good man is the friend of the gods;
60 Phileb|         the unjust and utterly bad man is the reverse?~PROTARCHUS:
61 Phileb|         are also pictured in us; a man may often have a vision
62 Phileb|            did we not allow that a man who had an opinion at all
63 Phileb|     SOCRATES: I mean to say that a man must be admitted to have
64 Phileb|         are restrained by the wise man’s aphorism of ‘Never too
65 Phileb|           derangement of nature, a man experiences two opposite
66 Phileb|          of pleasure prevails in a man, and the slight undercurrent
67 Phileb|      already remarked, that when a man is empty he desires to be
68 Phileb|            Which stirs even a wise man to violence, And is sweeter
69 Phileb|      SOCRATES: And yet the envious man finds something in the misfortunes
70 Phileb|           SOCRATES: Well, but if a man who is full of knowledge
71 Phileb|         SOCRATES: Supposing that a man had to be found, and you
72 Phileb|       towards the discovery of the man himself?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
73 Phileb|         SOCRATES: Let us suppose a man who understands justice,
74 Phileb|             We will suppose such a man.~SOCRATES: Will he have
75 Phileb|         Socrates, is ridiculous in man.~SOCRATES: What do you mean?
76 Phileb|        what is the highest good in man and in the universe, and
77 Phileb|          you mean?~SOCRATES: Every man knows it.~PROTARCHUS: What?~
78 Phileb|           And now, Protarchus, any man could decide well enough