[88a]
Socrates
But these same things, we admit, actually harm us at times; or do you dispute that statement?Meno
No, I agree.Socrates
Consider now, what is the guiding condition in each case that makes them at one time profitable, and at another harmful. Are they not profitable when the use of them is right, and harmful when it is not?Meno
To be sure.Socrates
Then let us consider next the goods of the soul: by these you understand temperance, justice, courage, intelligence, memory, magnanimity, and so forth?
But these same things, we admit, actually harm us at times; or do you dispute that statement?Meno
No, I agree.Socrates
Consider now, what is the guiding condition in each case that makes them at one time profitable, and at another harmful. Are they not profitable when the use of them is right, and harmful when it is not?Meno
To be sure.Socrates
Then let us consider next the goods of the soul: by these you understand temperance, justice, courage, intelligence, memory, magnanimity, and so forth?