Dialogue

 1 Intro|         for example, is opposed to wisdom; and folly is also opposed
 2 Intro|           therefore temperance and wisdom are the same. And holiness
 3 Intro|         men, is bound to say “that wisdom and knowledge are the highest
 4  Prot|           he has, Socrates, of the wisdom which he keeps from me.~
 5  Prot|        further to ask: What is the wisdom of the Sophist, and what
 6  Prot|        your age, and with all your wisdom, if any one were to teach
 7  Prot|          to impart their political wisdom to others: as for example,
 8  Prot|           to man. Thus man had the wisdom necessary to the support
 9  Prot|     support of life, but political wisdom he had not; for that was
10  Prot|         only by way of justice and wisdom, they are patient enough
11  Prot|             then, that courage and wisdom are also parts of virtue?~
12  Prot|         they are, he answered; and wisdom is the noblest of the parts.~
13  Prot|            folly?~I do.~And is not wisdom the very opposite of folly?~
14  Prot|           us to be the opposite of wisdom?~He assented.~And we said
15  Prot|           opposite; the other that wisdom is distinct from temperance,
16  Prot|          clearly the two opposites—wisdom and temperance? Is not that
17  Prot|    reluctance.~Then temperance and wisdom are the same, as before
18  Prot|            for you are a master of wisdom; but I cannot manage these
19  Prot|            the mind when receiving wisdom and knowledge, but pleasure
20  Prot|         which is the metropolis of wisdom, and in the greatest and
21  Prot|         right moment; for he has a wisdom, Protagoras, which, as I
22  Prot|        that they rule the world by wisdom, like the Sophists of whom
23  Prot|          would be practising their wisdom. And this secret of theirs
24  Prot|            may perceive that their wisdom was of this character; consisting
25  Prot|          the first-fruits of their wisdom, the far-famed inscriptions,
26  Prot|           ambitious of the fame of wisdom, was aware that if he could
27  Prot|         the question was this: Are wisdom and temperance and courage
28  Prot|           and upon that view again wisdom will be courage.~Nay, Socrates,
29  Prot|        that courage is the same as wisdom. But in this way of arguing
30  Prot|           imagine that strength is wisdom. You might begin by asking
31  Prot|            prove that upon my view wisdom is strength; whereas in
32  Prot|    contrary to knowledge, but that wisdom will have strength to help
33  Prot|          men, am bound to say that wisdom and knowledge are the highest
34  Prot| superiority of a man to himself is wisdom.~They all assented.~And
35  Prot|           cowardice?~Yes.~Then the wisdom which knows what are and