id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt plato-meno-911 plato-meno-911 .txt text/plain 12857 1366 92 MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching SOCRATES: When you say, Meno, that there is one virtue of a man, another MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then all men are good in the same way, and by participation in MENO: Yes, Socrates; I agree there; for justice is virtue. MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Do you mean that they think the evils which they desire, to be SOCRATES: And do you really imagine, Meno, that a man knows evils to be MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: And the goods which you mean are such as health and wealth and SOCRATES: Tell me, boy, do you know that a figure like this is a square? MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: Then virtue is profitable? MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: But when we said that a man cannot be a good guide unless he MENO: Yes. SOCRATES: If virtue was wisdom (or knowledge), then, as we thought, it ./cache/plato-meno-911.txt ./txt/plato-meno-911.txt