Dialogue

 1 Intro|   principle of human life, and ignorance the origin of all evil:
 2 Intro|       to the less, except from ignorance. The argument is drawn out
 3 Intro|        the good except through ignorance. This explains why cowards
 4 Intro|    knowledge, and cowardice is ignorance. And the five virtues, which
 5  Prot|    sons taught lesser matters, ignorance of which does not involve
 6  Prot|   greater things, of which the ignorance may cause death and exile
 7  Prot|      is twitting Pittacus with ignorance of the use of terms, which
 8  Prot|      and at the time answered ‘Ignorance,’ you would have laughed
 9  Prot|   without knowledge is done in ignorance. This, therefore, is the
10  Prot|   being overcome by pleasure; —ignorance, and that the greatest.
11  Prot|     they are the physicians of ignorance; but you, who are under
12  Prot|       mistaken impression that ignorance is not the cause, and that
13  Prot|       man to himself is merely ignorance, as the superiority of a
14  Prot|       all assented.~And is not ignorance the having a false opinion
15  Prot|  dangers, has been shown to be ignorance.~He assented.~And yet the
16  Prot|       confidences originate in ignorance and uninstructedness?~True,
17  Prot|       be cowards through their ignorance of dangers?~Assuredly, he
18  Prot|      said.~And because of that ignorance they are cowards?~He assented.~
19  Prot|       again assented.~Then the ignorance of what is and is not dangerous
20  Prot|      dangers is opposed to the ignorance of them?~To that again he
21  Prot|      he nodded assent.~And the ignorance of them is cowardice?~To
22  Prot| courage, and is opposed to the ignorance of these things?~At this