Dialogue

 1 Intro|      holiness has been already admitted to be nearly the same as
 2 Intro|  confident are madmen. This is admitted. Then, says Socrates, courage
 3  Prot|    admissions. First of all we admitted that everything has one
 4  Prot|    than one?~We did so.~And we admitted also that what was done
 5  Prot|       foolishly, as we further admitted, was done in the opposite
 6  Prot|      Yes, he said; let that be admitted.~And temperance is good
 7  Prot|  should assent. And when I had admitted this, you might use my admissions
 8  Prot|    that case I should not have admitted, any more than in the other,
 9  Prot|        strong, although I have admitted that the strong are able.
10  Prot| exchange for the lesser good?’ Admitted. And now substitute the
11  Prot|       yourselves: for you also admitted that men err in their choice
12  Prot|   defect of knowledge; and you admitted further, that they err,
13  Prot|      useful and good?~This was admitted.~Then, I said, if the pleasant
14  Prot|      That also was universally admitted.~Then, I said, these, Hippias
15  Prot|       honourable, then already admitted by us to be good; for all
16  Prot|     honourable actions we have admitted to be good.~That is true;
17  Prot|       and nobler?~That must be admitted.~And the courageous man
18  Prot|      base, then honourable?~He admitted this.~And if honourable,
19  Prot|        why they are cowards is admitted by you to be cowardice?~