Dialogue

 1 Intro|        the opposition of good and bad, true and false, but of
 2 Intro| phenomenon that good fathers have bad sons; (4) he is right also
 3 Intro|         only pretending to have a bad memory, and that he and
 4 Intro|      notion, which is ‘really too bad,’ that Simonides uses the
 5  Prot|         public, and reproving the bad player as freely and openly
 6  Prot|          be good than the sons of bad ones? I think not. Would
 7  Prot|      would often turn out to be a bad one, and the son of a bad
 8  Prot|         bad one, and the son of a bad player to be a good one,
 9  Prot|     wonder at good fathers having bad sons, or at good sons having
10  Prot|            or at good sons having bad fathers, of which the sons
11  Prot|      voice; so now, having such a bad memory, I will ask you to
12  Prot|      pretend in fun that he has a bad memory). And Socrates appears
13  Prot|       awful’ is always taken in a bad sense, and that no one speaks
14  Prot|         but man cannot help being bad when the force of circumstances
15  Prot|           for the good may become bad, as another poet witnesses:—~‘
16  Prot|      sometimes good and sometimes bad.’~But the bad does not become
17  Prot|           sometimes bad.’~But the bad does not become bad; he
18  Prot|           the bad does not become bad; he is always bad. So that
19  Prot|          become bad; he is always bad. So that when the force
20  Prot|         then he cannot help being bad. And you, Pittacus, are
21  Prot|        and he who does ill is the bad.’~But what sort of doing
22  Prot|        But he who does ill is the bad.’ Now who becomes a bad
23  Prot|           bad.’ Now who becomes a bad physician? Clearly he who
24  Prot|    physician; for he may become a bad one also: but none of us
25  Prot|           clearly cannot become a bad physician. In like manner
26  Prot|   deprived of knowledge), but the bad man will never become bad,
27  Prot|         bad man will never become bad, for he is always bad; and
28  Prot|      become bad, for he is always bad; and if he were to become
29  Prot|          and if he were to become bad, he must previously have
30  Prot|          good and may also become bad; and again that~‘They are
31  Prot|         country, or the like. Now bad men, when their parents
32  Prot|             when a man is neither bad nor very stupid; and when
33  Prot|         it partly good and partly bad, I said, or wholly good?~
34  Prot|         they are painful they are bad.~I do not know, Socrates,