id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 1681 Plato (spurious and doubtful works) Eryxias .txt text/plain 7121 507 84 PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Eryxias, Erasistratus, Critias. ask, Well, Socrates and Eryxias and Erasistratus, can you tell me what Yes, said Eryxias, interposing, but what use would it be if a man had And do you think, said the youth, that doing good things is like SOCRATES: What is useful to us, then, is wealth, and what is useless to SOCRATES: My argument, Critias (I said), appears to have given you the SOCRATES: And would you say that those things are useful which are SOCRATES: Then you consider that a man never wants any of these things SOCRATES: But can a bad thing be used to carry out a good purpose? SOCRATES: And do we think it possible that a thing should be useful for CRITIAS: No. SOCRATES: Then if these things are useful for supplying the needs of the SOCRATES: And he to whom the greatest number of things are useful ./cache/1681.txt ./txt/1681.txt