Plato, Meno, section 79a

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[79a] and whatever comes without any such quality, vice.

Meno
I agree that it must be as you say.

Socrates
And were we saying a little while ago that each of these things was a part of virtue—justice and temperance and the rest of them?

Meno
Yes.

Socrates
And here you are, Meno, making fun of me?

Meno
How so, Socrates?

Socrates
Because after my begging you not to break up virtue into small change, and giving you a pattern on which you should answer, you have ignored all this, and now tell me that virtue is

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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