Dialogue

 1 Intro|           in him than ‘many bearded men’; he is quite inspired by
 2 Intro|           have a mission to convict men of self-conceit; in the
 3 Intro|           man-midwife, who delivers men of their thoughts, and under
 4 Intro|         insight into the natures of men, and can divine their future;
 5 Intro|       spirit in which the wisest of men delights to speak of himself.~
 6 Intro|         which the ideas swarming in men’s minds could be compared;
 7 Intro|           that he is in labour. For men as well as women have pangs
 8 Intro|       children, but the thoughts of men. Like the midwives, who
 9 Intro|     offering you specimens of other men’s wisdom, because I have
10 Intro|             argument which disgusts men with philosophy as they
11 Intro|             wiser than many bearded men, but not wiser than you,
12 Intro|            And the world is full of men who are asking to be taught
13 Intro|           to be ruled, and of other men who are willing to rule
14 Intro|              All which implies that men do judge of one another’
15 Intro|            in the understandings of men. Admitting, with Protagoras,
16 Intro|            God is righteous; and of men, he is most like him who
17 Intro|      difference in the judgments of men about the future? Would
18 Intro|          against ancient and famous men.~Let us first approach the
19 Intro|     perception is given at birth to men and animals. But the essence
20 Intro|            a century before had led men to form conceptions of the
21 Intro|           abstract, any man or some men, ‘quod semper quod ubique’
22 Intro|    difficulty respecting Not-being. Men had only recently arrived
23 Intro|          flux.’ But the thoughts of men deepened, and soon they
24 Intro|           was the knowledge, not of men, but of gods, perfect and
25 Intro|            eighteenth century, when men sought to explain the human
26 Intro|            we have been speaking of men, rather in the points in
27 Intro|           and the teaching of other men as well as by his own observation.
28 Intro|            the perceptions of other men are, speaking generally,
29 Intro|          nineteenth centuries, when men walk in the daylight of
30 Intro|   communicating them to others. For men are taught, not by those
31 Intro| accommodation of it to the minds of men; many who have been metaphysicians
32 Intro|             PSYCHOLOGY.~O gar arche men o me oide, teleute de kai
33 Intro|       results, and learn from other men that so far as we can describe
34 Intro|           dream in which scientific men are always tempted to indulge.
35 Intro|         conscience, which speaks to men, not only of right and wrong
36 Intro|        little changes the nature of men, the sudden change of the
37 Intro|          them in the composition of men and animals. It is with
38  Thea|         also the most courageous of men; there is a union of qualities
39  Thea|           SOCRATES: Wisdom; are not men wise in that which they
40  Thea|            would task the powers of men perfect in every way?~THEAETETUS:
41  Thea|      strangest of mortals and drive men to their wits’ end. Did
42  Thea|           differs, in that I attend men and not women; and look
43  Thea|              and that you and I are men?~THEAETETUS: Yes, he says
44  Thea|          the level of the wisest of men, or indeed of the gods?—
45  Thea|        apply to the gods as well as men?~THEAETETUS: Certainly I
46  Thea|          conceive that one of these men can be or ought to be made
47  Thea|             that a good mind causes men to have good thoughts; and
48  Thea|        Socrates, I do not call wise men tadpoles: far from it; I
49  Thea|           enquiry than a great many men who have long beards?~SOCRATES:
50  Thea|            diagrams, or whether all men are equally measures and
51  Thea|            himself wiser than other men in some things, and their
52  Thea|            Is not the world full of men in their several employments,
53  Thea|            say that the opinions of men are always true, or sometimes
54  Thea|            that the opinions of all men are true.~THEODORUS: Certainly.~
55  Thea|            in the understandings of men.~THEODORUS: In that opinion
56  Thea|            is lived by immortals or men blessed of heaven.~THEODORUS:
57  Thea|         peace and fewer evils among men.~SOCRATES: Evils, Theodorus,
58  Thea|          his roguery is clever; for men glory in their shame—they
59  Thea|           of the earth, but such as men should be who mean to dwell
60  Thea|             was the superior of all men in this respect.~SOCRATES:
61  Thea|           good sir, they have none; men of their sort are not one
62  Thea|           knows nothing. From these men, then, as I was going to
63  Thea|          that of ancient and famous men. O Theodorus, do you think
64  Thea|          body are given at birth to men and animals by nature, but
65  Thea|        different sizes in different men; harder, moister, and having
66  Thea|       places on the block. And such men are called wise. Do you
67  Thea|            and think amiss—and such men are said to be deceived
68  Thea|           do not mean five or seven men or horses, but five or seven
69  Thea|         lawyers; for these persuade men by their art and make them
70  Thea|           in former times many wise men have grown old and have
71  Thea|        humbler and gentler to other men, and will be too modest
72  Thea|       things which great and famous men know or have known in this
73  Thea|          delivered women, I deliver men; but they must be young