Dialogue

 1 Intro|       sons. Virtue, as we were saying, is not the private possession
 2 Intro|      sages. Now Pittacus had a saying, ‘Hard is it to be good:’
 3 Intro|    jealous of the fame of this saying, wrote a poem which was
 4 Intro|        is almost equivalent to saying that virtue cannot be taught.
 5  Prot|      to hear what Prodicus was saying, for he seems to me to be
 6  Prot|      and all of them, as I was saying, adopted these arts as veils
 7  Prot|      is incurable—if what I am saying be true, good men have their
 8  Prot|      this; for, as I have been saying, the existence of a state
 9  Prot|      quite satisfied. You were saying that virtue can be taught;—
10  Prot|       some one were to ask us, saying, ‘O Protagoras, and you,
11  Prot|       asked us, ‘What were you saying just now? Perhaps I may
12  Prot|     but you seemed to me to be saying that the parts of virtue
13  Prot|     the face which, as we were saying before, are distinct and
14  Prot| summons the Simois to aid him, saying:~‘Brother dear, let us both
15  Prot|       he says himself, but for saying something different from
16  Prot|         he blames Pittacus for saying, ‘Hard is the good,’ just
17  Prot|        that were equivalent to saying, Evil is the good.~Yes,
18  Prot|    what our friend Prodicus is saying? And have you an answer
19  Prot|       darting out some notable saying, terse and full of meaning,
20  Prot|    philosophy. Now there was a saying of Pittacus which was privately
21  Prot|        he could overthrow this saying, then, as if he had won
22  Prot|      damaging Pittacus and his saying.~Let us all unite in examining
23  Prot|       of Pittacus. Pittacus is saying ‘Hard is it to be good,’
24  Prot|         Greek), construing the saying of Pittacus thus (and let
25  Prot|      to be a refutation of the saying of Pittacus. For he speaks
26  Prot|         And you, Pittacus, are saying, ‘Hard is it to be good.’
27  Prot|       meaning of what they are saying; people who cite them declaring,
28  Prot|        Homer was very right in saying that~‘When two go together,
29  Prot|       if I am not mistaken, in saying that there are some pleasant
30  Prot|      you are mistaken, and are saying what is not true, they would
31  Prot|         I was surprised at his saying this at the time, and I
32  Prot|       heard laughing at us and saying: ‘Protagoras and Socrates,
33  Prot|        you, Socrates, who were saying that virtue cannot be taught,
34  Prot|     other hand, who started by saying that it might be taught,