Dialogue

 1 Intro|      them as well as we can. No better image of nature or truth,
 2 Intro|  ridiculous and transparent,—no better than those which Plato satirizes
 3 Intro|     attempt, I think that I had better begin at the beginning.~
 4 Intro|        we may assume them to be better than they are, and able
 5 Intro| Theaetetus, and know their ways better than you do—that being can
 6  Soph|         many they seem to be no better than madmen. I should like
 7  Soph|        unless you can suggest a better way.~THEAETETUS: Indeed
 8  Soph|       Theaetetus, can find some better name?~THEAETETUS: Never
 9  Soph|        STRANGER: Perhaps we had better divide it.~THEAETETUS: What
10  Soph|      separated from like or the better from the worse.~THEAETETUS:
11  Soph|         worse and preserves the better, I do know a name.~THEAETETUS:
12  Soph|         THEAETETUS: Exactly; no better description of him could
13  Soph|   STRANGER: I think that we had better, first of all, consider
14  Soph|         be deferred; but we had better now discuss the chief captain
15  Soph|       let us imagine them to be better than they are, and more
16  Soph|    worth having; for that which better men acknowledge has more
17  Soph|      suggestion, having nothing better of their own to offer.~STRANGER:
18  Soph|       how he can find something better to say; or if he sees a
19  Soph|         STRANGER: You will know better if you first gain a knowledge