Dialogue

 1 Intro|       different names of the same thing? Protagoras replies that
 2  Prot|        shall I tell you a strange thing? I paid no attention to
 3  Prot|         your soul and whether the thing to which you commit yourself
 4  Prot|        and heard him say the same thing, and asked him, ‘In what
 5  Prot|        spontaneously, but to be a thing which may be taught; and
 6  Prot|        trust. But I marvel at one thing about which I should like
 7  Prot|         names of one and the same thing: that is the doubt which
 8  Prot|     justice is of the nature of a thing, would you not? That is
 9  Prot|         Socrates, what about this thing which you were calling justice,
10  Prot|         now, is there also such a thing as holiness?’—we should
11  Prot|          also acknowledge to be a thing—should we not say so?~He
12  Prot|             And is this a sort of thing which is of the nature of
13  Prot|    everything is like every other thing; white is in a certain way
14  Prot|           opposites?~Yes.~And one thing is done by temperance, and
15  Prot|     temperance, and quite another thing by folly?~Yes.~And in opposite
16  Prot|           manure, which is a good thing when laid about the roots
17  Prot| discussion? For discussion is one thing, and making an oration is
18  Prot|            which is the very same thing. And yet when he blames
19  Prot|       rejoins that the truly hard thing, Pittacus, is to become
20  Prot|         hard.’ Not, that the hard thing is to be truly good, as
21  Prot|     thought; but if a man~‘Sees a thing when he is alone,’~he goes
22  Prot|   holiness five names of the same thing? or has each of the names
23  Prot|         essence and corresponding thing having a peculiar function,
24  Prot|         not the names of the same thing, but that each of them had
25  Prot|        affirm virtue to be a good thing, of which good thing you
26  Prot|         good thing, of which good thing you assert yourself to be
27  Prot|           courage would be a base thing, for the men of whom we
28  Prot|         view:—that is the sort of thing which I desire in this speculation.
29  Prot|         is a noble and commanding thing, which cannot be overcome,
30  Prot|        conviction that some other thing would be better and is also
31  Prot|          said, there is a certain thing called fear or terror; and
32  Prot|          is a good and honourable thing?~The cowards, he replied.~