Dialogue

 1 Intro|           reign of Cronos, or our present state of existence?’ No,
 2 Intro|  discussion about the Sophist. At present I am content with the indirect
 3 Intro|         or that which men live at present, is the better of the two.
 4 Intro|         law, in order that he may present to himself the more familiar
 5 Intro|        primitive times, or at the present day among eastern rulers.
 6 State|         and, although I cannot at present entirely explain myself,
 7 State|           which is at this moment present in my mind, clearer to us
 8 State|       life does not belong to the present cycle of the world, but
 9 State|    Socrates; the character of our present life, which is said to be
10 State|            until attaining to the present order. From God, the constructor,
11 State|          world turned towards the present cycle of generation, the
12 State|         king and statesman of the present cycle and generation, we
13 State|         parts, with a view to our present purpose.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
14 State|            We shall find from our present point of view that the greatest
15 State|       ever to see daylight in the present enquiry.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
16 State|        supposed, according to our present view, to rule on some scientific
17 State| consideration which is beside our present purpose, and yet having
18 State|      yourself before now, or been present when others praised them.~
19 State|      which are the subject of the present enquiry.~YOUNG SOCRATES: