Dialogue

 1 Intro|  adversaries of Protagoras are as good a measure as he is, and
 2 Intro|       maintain that one man is as good as another in his knowledge
 3 Intro|           were asserting ‘the one good under many names,’ and,
 4 Intro|     Euphronius, who was himself a good man and a rich. He is informed
 5 Intro|    charming, Theaetetus, and very good for a person in your interesting
 6 Intro|           man’s discernment is as good as another’s, and every
 7 Intro|          reply in his own person—‘Good people, you sit and declaim
 8 Intro|        power of turning evil into good, the bitterness of disease
 9 Intro|          and plants, and make the good take the place of the evil,
10 Intro|  individuals and states. Wise and good rhetoricians make the good
11 Intro|        good rhetoricians make the good to appear just in states (
12 Intro|           to be the antagonist of good, out of the way of the gods
13 Intro|           that you may seem to be good. And yet the truth is, that
14 Intro|          of the State were always good or expedient, although this
15 Intro|           these abstractions. The good and the beautiful are abstractions
16 Intro|       falsehood,’ when a man puts good for evil or evil for good.
17 Intro|         good for evil or evil for good. Socrates will not discourage
18 Intro|        ever say to yourself, that good is evil, or evil good? Even
19 Intro|        that good is evil, or evil good? Even in sleep, did you
20 Intro|       pretend to compare with the good and wise of this and other
21 Intro|    speculation, or that we may do good without caring about truth,
22 Intro|        have been supposed to hold good (for anything which he says
23 Intro|      sciences, of the one, of the good, of the all:—this is the
24 Intro|        our finding that they hold good not only in every instance,
25 Intro|        the virtues on the idea of good. The reason of this phenomenon
26 Intro|          to feeling, happiness or good to pleasure. The different
27 Intro|           man. But nearly all the good (as well as some of the
28 Intro|         study of it may have done good service by awakening us
29 Intro|           We may be able to add a good deal to them from our own
30 Intro|      themselves, the one into the good principle, the other into
31 Intro|           of the mind which it is good for us to study when we
32 Intro|           pass imperceptibly from good to evil, from nature in
33  Thea|        read to us.~TERPSION: Very good.~EUCLID: Here is the roll,
34  Thea|           met with any one who is good for anything.~THEODORUS:
35  Thea|      wonderful.~SOCRATES: That is good news; whose son is he?~THEODORUS:
36  Thea|         one class.~SOCRATES: Very good.~THEAETETUS: The intermediate
37  Thea|       SOCRATES: Well, then, be of good cheer; do not say that Theodorus
38  Thea|        SOCRATES: Come, you made a good beginning just now; let
39  Thea|          who is likely to do them good. Many of them I have given
40  Thea|        SOCRATES: Then motion is a good, and rest an evil, to the
41  Thea|        doctrine to perception, my good friend, and first of all
42  Thea|     soothe you, and offer you one good thing after another, that
43  Thea|          is but what becomes?—the good and the noble, as well as
44  Thea|           doubtless say in reply,—Good people, young and old, you
45  Thea|        assist him.~SOCRATES: Very good, Theodorus; you shall see
46  Thea| entanglements of words. But, O my good sir, he will say, come to
47  Thea|      nature, so I conceive that a good mind causes men to have
48  Thea|           mind causes men to have good thoughts; and these which
49  Thea|      plants, and infuse into them good and healthy sensations—aye
50  Thea|       true ones; and the wise and good rhetoricians make the good
51  Thea|        good rhetoricians make the good instead of the evil to seem
52  Thea|      teacher of wisdom causes the good to take the place of the
53  Thea|           nobody. At any rate, my good man, do not sheer off until
54  Thea|      whereby you will do yourself good as well as me.~THEODORUS:
55  Thea|          which is antagonistic to good. Having no place among the
56  Thea|         that a man may seem to be good, which is the reason given
57  Thea|         of justice; but as to the good, no one had any longer the
58  Thea|         thought and enacted to be good that these, while they were
59  Thea|        were in force, were really good;—he who said so would be
60  Thea|         be playing with the name ‘good,’ and would not touch the
61  Thea|    Whatever be the term used, the good or expedient is the aim
62  Thea|       whole class under which the good or expedient falls. That
63  Thea|          THEODORUS: Disciples! my good sir, they have none; men
64  Thea|       that it is.~THEODORUS: Very good, Socrates; and now that
65  Thea|          of taste.~SOCRATES: Very good; and now tell me what is
66  Thea|          is himself beautiful and good. And besides being beautiful,
67  Thea|        the noble and base, and of good and evil?~THEAETETUS: These
68  Thea|      succession?~THEAETETUS: Very good.~SOCRATES: And do you mean
69  Thea|        not know.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~SOCRATES: Now, when a person
70  Thea|          in the mind—the soft are good at learning, but apt to
71  Thea|         from it are all noble and good.~SOCRATES: He who led the
72  Thea|        elements.~THEAETETUS: Very good.~SOCRATES: And it must have
73  Thea|           have elicited from me a good deal more than ever was