Dialogue

 1 Intro|               That he will make him a better and a wiser man.’ ‘But in
 2 Intro|                But in what will he be better?’—Socrates desires to have
 3 Intro|            Some, like Protagoras, are better than others, and with this
 4 Intro|           argument and represents the better mind of man.~For example: (
 5  Prot| acknowledgement appears to me to be a better sort of caution than concealment.
 6  Prot|            day you will return home a better man than you came, and better
 7  Prot|         better man than you came, and better on the second day than on
 8  Prot|            day than on the first, and better every day than you were
 9  Prot|              before, you would become better no doubt: but please to
10  Prot|              he would grow and become better if he associated with him:
11  Prot|                In what shall I become better, and in what shall I grow?’—
12  Prot|                In what shall I become better day by day?’ he would reply, ‘
13  Prot|             you he will return home a better man, and on every day will
14  Prot|                Protagoras, will he be better? and about what?~When Protagoras
15  Prot|              by punishment he becomes better, and he who rebels against
16  Prot|           order that their bodies may better minister to the virtuous
17  Prot|            anything else; if a man is better able than we are to promote
18  Prot|             make men good; but I know better now. Yet I have still one
19  Prot|             do, I should have been no better than another, and the name
20  Prot|              world that I should like better than to hear you and Protagoras
21  Prot|               not to preside over the better; or if he was equal, neither
22  Prot|               you say, ‘Let us have a better then,’—to that I answer
23  Prot|             another who is not really better, and whom you only say is
24  Prot|              and whom you only say is better, to put another over him
25  Prot|               think that no man has a better understanding of most things
26  Prot|               to me that I may have a better view:—that is the sort of
27  Prot|             some other thing would be better and is also attainable,
28  Prot|      attainable, when he might do the better. And this inferiority of
29  Prot|           nobler, and pleasanter, and better?~The admission of that,
30  Prot|               man also go to meet the better, and pleasanter, and nobler?~
31  Prot|               time; at present we had better turn to something else.~