Dialogue

 1  Prot| pleasant things evil and some painful things good?—for I am rather
 2  Prot|     and in as far as they are painful they are bad.~I do not know,
 3  Prot|  pleasant is the good and the painful the evil. Having regard
 4  Prot|       and that there are some painful things which are good, and
 5  Prot|      you speak of goods being painful, do you not mean remedial
 6  Prot|     things which are good but painful?’—they would assent to me?~
 7  Prot|   names, such as pleasant and painful, and good and evil. As there
 8  Prot|   evil, and then pleasant and painful. Assuming this, let us go
 9  Prot|      but that he does what is painful knowingly, and because he
10  Prot| course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant,
11  Prot|   pleasant is exceeded by the painful. Would you not admit, my
12  Prot| pleasant is the good, and the painful evil. And here I would beg