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Socrates
And will virtue, as virtue, differ at all whether it be in a child or in an elderly person, in a woman or in a man?Meno
I feel somehow, Socrates, that here we cease to be on the same ground as in those other cases.Socrates
Why? Were you not saying that a man's virtue is to manage a state well, and a woman's a house?Meno
I was.Socrates
And is it possible to manage a state well, or a house, or anything at all, if you do not manage it temperately and justly?
And will virtue, as virtue, differ at all whether it be in a child or in an elderly person, in a woman or in a man?Meno
I feel somehow, Socrates, that here we cease to be on the same ground as in those other cases.Socrates
Why? Were you not saying that a man's virtue is to manage a state well, and a woman's a house?Meno
I was.Socrates
And is it possible to manage a state well, or a house, or anything at all, if you do not manage it temperately and justly?
