Dialogue

 1 Intro|         Nor need we wonder that wise and good fathers sometimes
 2  Prot|        met, Socrates, with some wise one?~SOCRATES: Say rather,
 3  Prot|        him, he will make you as wise as he is himself.~Would
 4  Prot|         him to be one who knows wise things, he replied, as his
 5  Prot|          Do not they, too, know wise things? But suppose a person
 6  Prot|        In what are the painters wise? We should answer: In what
 7  Prot|         Ceos, and several other wise men.~To this we agreed,
 8  Prot|         the prospect of hearing wise men talk; we ourselves took
 9  Prot| Epimetheus, who, not being very wise, forgot that he had distributed
10  Prot|         teachers, and make them wise in that, but do nothing
11  Prot|       not just, or just and not wise.~You would not deny, then,
12  Prot|         and a lower to the less wise. And I as well as Critias
13  Prot|       albeit the utterance of a wise man: Hardly can a man be
14  Prot|        one else is an ‘awfully’ wise man, he asks me if I am
15  Prot|         conversation with their wise men, and are no longer satisfied
16  Prot|     seventh in the catalogue of wise men was the Lacedaemonian
17  Prot| received the approbation of the wise, ‘Hard is it to be good.’
18  Prot|        evil voluntarily. For no wise man, as I believe, will