Dialogue

 1 Intro|    which each individual is by nature capable. And, as a matter
 2 Intro|         of which the invidious nature is recognized by Protagoras
 3 Intro| antiquity about the preventive nature of punishment is put into
 4 Intro|      is deeply seated in human nature; (5) there is a sort of
 5 Intro|        by the necessity of his nature to be a partisan, lending
 6 Intro|        the whole. Further, the nature of this knowledge, which
 7 Intro|      divided elements of human nature are reconciled.~
 8  Prot|       of Protagoras is of this nature: may you not learn of him
 9  Prot|      me that appears to be his nature.~And what, Socrates, is
10  Prot|      also of a fair and gentle nature. I thought that I heard
11  Prot|        and others small, whose nature was to fly in the air or
12  Prot|     this virtue to be given by nature, or to grow spontaneously,
13  Prot|      they suppose to be due to nature or chance; they do not try
14  Prot|       this kind is the work of nature and of chance; whereas if
15  Prot|        think, Socrates, of the nature of punishment, you will
16  Prot|      me that justice is of the nature of a thing, would you not?
17  Prot|         that justice is of the nature of the just: would not you?~
18  Prot|       of thing which is of the nature of the holy, or of the nature
19  Prot|  nature of the holy, or of the nature of the unholy?’ I should
20  Prot|    Then holiness is not of the nature of justice, nor justice
21  Prot|    justice, nor justice of the nature of holiness, but of the
22  Prot|        of holiness, but of the nature of unholiness; and holiness
23  Prot|         and holiness is of the nature of the not just, and therefore
24  Prot|  various and changeable is the nature of the benefit), that which
25  Prot|        and fellow-citizens, by nature and not by law; for by nature
26  Prot|  nature and not by law; for by nature like is akin to like, whereas
27  Prot|       things which are against nature. How great would be the
28  Prot|      then, if we, who know the nature of things, and are the wisest
29  Prot|  confident, or another sort of nature?~Yes, he said; I mean the
30  Prot|        but strength comes from nature and a healthy state of the
31  Prot|     courage comes to them from nature and the healthy state of
32  Prot|        inform them what is the nature of this affection which
33  Prot|        of pleasure of whatever nature?’—Would they not answer
34  Prot|       will agree, he said.~The nature of that art or science will
35  Prot|        to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled
36  Prot|        desire to ascertain the nature and relations of virtue;
37  Prot|   Socrates, I am not of a base nature, and I am the last man in