Dialogue

 1 Intro|  science or knowledge of human life.’~This, as Socrates admits,
 2 Intro|   governing principle of human life, and ignorance the origin
 3 Intro|        on the surface of human life one common bond by which
 4  Prot|    necessary to the support of life, but political wisdom he
 5  Prot|     supplied with the means of life. But Prometheus is said
 6  Prot| provide them with the means of life, and did not enable them
 7  Prot|        last to the very end of life. Mother and nurse and father
 8  Prot|     speech and action; for the life of man in every part has
 9  Prot|      not throw away my span of life to no purpose in searching
10  Prot|   pleasantly to the end of his life, will he not in that case
11  Prot|        also to the whole of my life, I shall be safer, if I
12  Prot|   satisfied, then, at having a life of pleasure which is without
13  Prot|      saving principle of human life? Would not the art of measuring
14  Prot|        and would thus save our life. Would not mankind generally
15  Prot|         the salvation of human life to depend on the choice
16  Prot|    that the salvation of human life has been found to consist
17  Prot|     both in public and private life:—Let us suppose this to
18  Prot|        the tendency is to make life painless and pleasant? The
19  Prot|      Promethean care of my own life. And if you have no objection,