Dialogue

 1 Intro|    against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education.
 2 Intro|       allow some sect or body of men the possession of an honourable
 3 Intro|         were good and honourable men. The notion that they were
 4 Intro|        that they are respectable men.~The Sophist, in the dialogue
 5 Intro|         to damage the ‘hooker of men’ as much as possible; each
 6 Intro|      education is to interrogate men after the manner of Socrates,
 7 Intro|       general notions will guide men into all truth.~Plato does
 8 Intro|         In the infancy of logic, men sought only to obtain a
 9 Intro|        soul hates—~os chi eteron men keuthe eni phresin, allo
10 Intro|          the good and evil among men, and detect the foolishness
11 Intro|           too, can deceive young men, who are still at a distance
12 Intro|          our way rejoicing. Most men (like Aristotle) have been
13 Intro|         likely to make upon him. Men are annoyed at what puzzles
14 Intro|    either. But the characters of men are one-sided and accept
15 Intro|          opposite sides or views—men are determined by their
16 Intro|       only above the opinions of men but above their modes of
17 Intro|       above the ordinary ways of men; they understand one another
18 Intro|          criterion: the ideas of men have a succession in time
19 Intro|         impersonal. The minds of men are to be regarded as one
20 Intro|          how all the thoughts of men that ever were, which are
21 Intro|     mixed much in the affairs of men, for, as his biographer
22 Intro|        custom. He will not allow men to defend themselves by
23  Soph|          the good and evil among men. And may not your companion
24  Soph| unrecognized by the ignorance of men, and they ‘hover about cities,’
25  Soph|        and is a hunt after young men of wealth and rank—such
26  Soph|      another in the souls of bad men?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
27  Soph|        that the Sophists are the men. I say this provisionally,
28  Soph|          profess that he teaches men to dispute? To begin at
29  Soph|           which are invisible to men in general?~THEAETETUS:
30  Soph|         they not profess to make men able to dispute about law
31  Soph|          the Sophists make young men believe in their supreme
32  Soph|      enchant the hearts of young men by words poured through
33  Soph|         speaker is the wisest of men in all things?~THEAETETUS:
34  Soph|    besides, antiquity and famous men should have reverence, and
35  Soph|         have often met with such men, and terrible fellows they
36  Soph|    having; for that which better men acknowledge has more weight
37  Soph|         acknowledged by inferior men. Moreover we are no respecters
38  Soph|   matters—they are often elderly men, whose meagre sense is thrown
39  Soph|       ridiculous of all will the men themselves be who want to