Dialogue

 1 Phileb|        many on the minds of young men in their first fervour of
 2 Phileb|          energy is not granted to men. The most sensual pleasure,
 3 Phileb|         mind, in the relations of men to one another. For the
 4 Phileb|         and they, who were better men and nearer the gods than
 5 Phileb|      agrees with the testimony of men of old, who affirmed mind
 6 Phileb|        declaring that the best of men, if he be in pain, is bad?~
 7 Phileb|         is the virtue of ordinary men who live in the world of
 8 Phileb|        general idea seems to such men a contradiction. They do
 9 Phileb|    speculations which intelligent men might ‘agree to discard.’
10 Phileb|      slumber in the minds of most men, yet in all of us there
11 Phileb|         successive generations of men. If we ask: Which of these
12 Phileb|         interest to that of other men, may become a passion to
13 Phileb|         explained. Admitting that men rest for a time in inferior
14 Phileb|           the universal fact that men desire it. The obligation
15 Phileb|           is capable of inspiring men like a passion, and is the
16 Phileb|    noblest and most disinterested men who have lived in this century,
17 Phileb|          no further advanced than men were in the age of Socrates
18 Phileb|   happiness and that of all other men would coincide, in the imperfect
19 Phileb|         difficulty by saying that men will always find pleasure
20 Phileb|            And as words influence men’s thoughts, we fear that
21 Phileb|         the higher the view which men take of life, the more they
22 Phileb|        another. The characters of men also differ; and some are
23 Phileb|        different characters among men, should we not allow them
24 Phileb|          be thankful to the great men who have provided for all
25 Phileb| philosophy had been excluded. All men have principles which are
26 Phileb|          we endeavour to bind all men within the limits of a single
27 Phileb|   prejudices and superstitions of men may be brought:—whatever
28 Phileb|           not tend to the good of men is not of God. And the ideal
29 Phileb|        army. For in human actions men do not always require broad
30 Phileb|    politics, in religion, leading men to ask how evil may be diminished
31 Phileb|        differ widely even in good men; benevolence and self-love
32 Phileb|         view the greatest good of men is obedience to law: the
33 Phileb|          the will of God that all men should be as he is. It lives
34 Phileb|        the property of making all men happy.~PROTARCHUS: Yes,
35 Phileb|           has the power of making men happy, turn out to be more
36 Phileb|         principle about which all men are always in a difficulty,
37 Phileb|         in a difficulty, and some men sometimes against their
38 Phileb|          that all of us are young men, is there not a danger that
39 Phileb|   conceive, the gods tossed among men by the hands of a new Prometheus,
40 Phileb|          down to us. But the wise men of our time are either too
41 Phileb|           an individual or of all men is one and yet infinite.~
42 Phileb|           in the number of famous men.~PROTARCHUS: I think that
43 Phileb|           True.~SOCRATES: And all men, as we were saying just
44 Phileb|         pleasures in the souls of men which are a ludicrous imitation
45 Phileb|      themselves to be much better men than they are.~PROTARCHUS:
46 Phileb|          though he be the best of men; and again, that he who
47 Phileb|            for I am sure that all men who have a grain of intelligence
48 Phileb|         they trouble the souls of men, which are our habitation,
49 Phileb|         honourable among gods and men.~PROTARCHUS: Clearly, and