Dialogue

 1  Prot|         how is he designated?~They call him a Sophist, Socrates,
 2  Prot|         the care of a man whom you call a Sophist. And yet I hardly
 3  Prot|           spoken with him: and you call him a Sophist, but are manifestly
 4  Prot|           deposit them at home and call in any experienced friend
 5  Prot|          be inexpedient, and yet I call them good.~I thought that
 6  Prot| inexpedient altogether? and do you call the latter good?~Certainly
 7  Prot|       considered that there was no call upon me to continue the
 8  Prot|        like the rest of the world, call some pleasant things evil
 9  Prot|            nor evil.~And you would call pleasant, I said, the things
10  Prot|          this affection which they call ‘being overcome by pleasure,’
11  Prot|             He agreed.~‘And do you call them good because they occasion
12  Prot|         pleasure and pain when you call them good?’—they would acknowledge
13  Prot|         pleasure. If, however, you call pleasure an evil in relation
14  Prot|           speaking about pain? You call pain a good when it takes
15  Prot|           which you refer when you call actual pain a good, you
16  Prot|       there are two things, let us call them by two names— first,
17  Prot|         not this?—tell us what you call such a state:—if we had
18  Prot|        whatever name he prefers to call them, I will ask you, most
19  Prot|            the cowards act, do you call it cowardice or courage?~