Dialogue

 1 Intro|          pleasures and pains, of things terrible and not terrible.
 2 Intro|        the most teachable of all things, while Protagoras has been
 3 Intro|         are the highest of human things.”’~There is no reason to
 4  Prot|         have heard and said many things.~COMPANION: Then, if you
 5  Prot|         to be one who knows wise things, he replied, as his name
 6  Prot|         not they, too, know wise things? But suppose a person were
 7  Prot|           and similarly of other things. And if he were further
 8  Prot|          their sons taught other things and not this, do consider
 9  Prot| punishment of death: but greater things, of which the ignorance
10  Prot|       the ruin of families—those things, I say, they are supposed
11  Prot|          same principle that all things are like one another; and
12  Prot|        like one another; and yet things which are like in some particular
13  Prot|          to be called alike, nor things which are unlike in some
14  Prot|         said: and there are some things which may be inexpedient,
15  Prot|        you say, Protagoras, that things inexpedient are good, do
16  Prot|      replied; for I know of many things—meats, drinks, medicines,
17  Prot|           and ten thousand other things, which are inexpedient for
18  Prot|          to speak about the same things at such length that words
19  Prot|      often compels us to do many things which are against nature.
20  Prot|           who know the nature of things, and are the wisest of the
21  Prot|        men is the hardest of all things, can be easily retained.~
22  Prot|       Learned as you are in many things, you appear to know nothing
23  Prot|        do evil and dishonourable things do them against their will.
24  Prot|          of finding fault).~‘All things are good with which evil
25  Prot|         not mean to say that all things are good which have no evil
26  Prot|      them, as you might say ‘All things are white which have no
27  Prot|     better understanding of most things which a good man may be
28  Prot|       should say the best of all things, if I am in my right mind.~
29  Prot|        that is true of all other things, he said, if that is your
30  Prot|       ignorant, I said, of these things, and yet confident about
31  Prot|        world, call some pleasant things evil and some painful things
32  Prot|     things evil and some painful things good?—for I am rather disposed
33  Prot|      rather disposed to say that things are good in as far as they
34  Prot|          there are some pleasant things which are not good, and
35  Prot|      that there are some painful things which are good, and some
36  Prot|       call pleasant, I said, the things which participate in pleasure
37  Prot|         are the highest of human things.~Good, I said, and true.
38  Prot|    commonly supposed to know the things which are best, and not
39  Prot|          starving? Are these the things which are good but painful?’—
40  Prot|          He assented.~‘Are these things good for any other reason
41  Prot|       and evil. As there are two things, let us call them by two
42  Prot|         up and down and take the things at one time of which we
43  Prot|     actions and in our choice of things great and small? But the
44  Prot|      over pleasure and all other things; and then you said that
45  Prot|        are the teachers of these things—you take care of your money
46  Prot|         made, that he thinks the things which he fears to be evil;
47  Prot|   courageous go to meet the same things.~And yet, Socrates, said
48  Prot|        to the ignorance of these things?~At this point he would
49  Prot|        attempt to prove that all things are knowledge, including