Dialogue

 1 Phileb|          and Socrates proceeds to ask how he can have a right
 2 Phileb|      these mixed feelings, let me ask whether envy is painful. ‘
 3 Phileb|         Philebus or Socrates, but ask, on behalf of the argument,
 4 Phileb|        say about the rest? First, ask the pleasures—they will
 5 Phileb|      dwell with wisdom. Secondly, ask the arts and sciences—they
 6 Phileb|         generations of men. If we ask: Which of these many theories
 7 Phileb|           happiness, we naturally ask what is meant by ‘happiness.’
 8 Phileb|      gained only a truism.~Let us ask the question in another
 9 Phileb|          religion, leading men to ask how evil may be diminished
10 Phileb|           about these too we must ask What will of God? how revealed
11 Phileb|          What question?~SOCRATES: Ask me whether wisdom and science
12 Phileb|        SOCRATES: Are you going to ask, Philebus, what this has
13 Phileb|          Then answer.~PROTARCHUS: Ask.~SOCRATES: Would you choose,
14 Phileb|      Perhaps you will allow me to ask you a question before you
15 Phileb|           the harmony, let us now ask what will be the condition
16 Phileb|          And mind what you say: I ask whether any animal who is
17 Phileb|           no such interval, I may ask what would be the necessary
18 Phileb|          But why, Socrates, do we ask the question at all? I do
19 Phileb|       begin at the beginning, and ask whether, if we wanted to
20 Phileb|        not imagine that I mean to ask whether those who are very
21 Phileb|       Once more, Socrates, I must ask what you mean.~SOCRATES:
22 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: Why do you ask, Socrates?~SOCRATES: Because,
23 Phileb|           a question.~PROTARCHUS: Ask, and I will answer.~SOCRATES:
24 Phileb|         mean, O my Protarchus, to ask whether you would tell me
25 Phileb|        all similar cases I should ask the same question.~PROTARCHUS:
26 Phileb|   original design, has gone on to ask whether one sort of knowledge
27 Phileb|           him? And about wisdom I ask the same question; can you
28 Phileb|         we take?~SOCRATES: Do not ask me, Protarchus; but ask
29 Phileb|           ask me, Protarchus; but ask the daughters of pleasure
30 Phileb| discovered it, we will proceed to ask whether this omnipresent
31 Phileb|      measure, in like manner, and ask whether pleasure has more