Dialogue

 1 Intro|     contradiction. First the poet says,~‘Hard is it to become good,’~
 2 Intro|    designed to controvert it. No, says he, Pittacus; not ‘hard
 3 Intro|           This is admitted. Then, says Socrates, courage is knowledge—
 4 Intro|          work, which, as Socrates says of the poem of Simonides,
 5 Intro|          and appears to be, as he says of himself, the ‘least jealous
 6 Intro|            showing, as Alcibiades says, that he is only pretending
 7 Intro|          way, which, as Theodorus says in the Theaetetus, are quite
 8  Prot|           of Homer’s opinion, who says~‘Youth is most charming
 9  Prot|        order.~After him, as Homer says (Od.), ‘I lifted up my eyes
10  Prot|           you are aware, if a man says that he is a good flute-player,
11  Prot|        man is out of his mind who says anything else. Their notion
12  Prot| assertions shall we renounce? One says that everything has but
13  Prot|          of a poet. Now Simonides says to Scopas the son of Creon
14  Prot|           agree with him, when he says, ‘Hardly can a man be good,’
15  Prot|        yet when he blames him who says the same with himself, he
16  Prot|           repeating that which he says himself, but for saying
17  Prot|         does not say as Simonides says, that hardly can a man become
18  Prot|       others would say, as Hesiod says,~‘On the one hand, hardly
19  Prot|          the context, in which he says that God only has this gift.
20  Prot|   answering him): ‘O my friends,’ says Pittacus, ‘hard is it to
21  Prot|         will. And Simonides never says that he praises him who
22  Prot|            For I am satisfied’ he says, ‘when a man is neither
23  Prot|        state.~(‘I do not hope’ he says, ‘to find a perfectly blameless
24  Prot|          his fingers, and then he says, Uncover your chest and
25  Prot|            I said, that the world says to me: ‘Why do you spend
26  Prot|         in degree? For if any one says: ‘Yes, Socrates, but immediate