12.10.07

CALLICLES: Is Socrates in earnest, or is he joking?

SOCRATES: I declare, O Callicles, that Callicles will never be at one with himself, but that his whole life will be a discord. And yet, my friend, I would rather that my lyre should be inharmonious, and that there should be no music in the chorus which I provided; aye, or that the whole world should be at odds with me, and oppose me, rather than that I myself should be at odds with myself, and contradict myself.

2 comments:

era said...

[and then...]

SOCRATES: Then the skilfullest and best in making shoes ought to have the advantage in shoes; the shoemaker, clearly, should walk about in the largest shoes, and have the greatest number of them?

CALLICLES: Fudge about shoes! What nonsense are you talking?

Kat said...

Ok this possibly makes more sense to me now in the light of the last post. (or am I reading the wrong thing into it? again...)