Dialogue

 1  Prot|        of the world, call some pleasant things evil and some painful
 2  Prot|     good in as far as they are pleasant, if they have no consequences
 3  Prot|    unqualified manner that the pleasant is the good and the painful
 4  Prot|     saying that there are some pleasant things which are not good,
 5  Prot|       evil.~And you would call pleasant, I said, the things which
 6  Prot|     that in as far as they are pleasant they are good; and my question
 7  Prot|      sensual desires which are pleasant, and they, knowing them
 8  Prot|     are evil,—in that they are pleasant and give pleasure at the
 9  Prot|      of various names, such as pleasant and painful, and good and
10  Prot|        good and evil, and then pleasant and painful. Assuming this,
11  Prot|     painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by
12  Prot|  course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.
13  Prot|        agree, I said, that the pleasant is the good, and the painful
14  Prot|      to make life painless and pleasant? The honourable work is
15  Prot| admitted.~Then, I said, if the pleasant is the good, nobody does
16  Prot|    honourable, I said, is also pleasant?~It has certainly been acknowledged