SOCRATES: Why, because I asked you to deliver virtue into my hands whole and unbroken, and I gave you a pattern according to which you were to frame your answer; and you have forgotten already, and tell me that virtue is the power of attaining good justly, or with justice; and justice you acknowledge to be a part of virtue.
-Oraintxe nik zuri bertutea ez hausteko eta zatikatzeko eskatuta, eta nola erantzun behar zen jakiteko ereduak emanda ere, ez zarelako horretaz arduratu, eta, gainera, batetik, esaten didazu bertutea gauza onak justiziaz lortzeko gai izatea dela; baina, bestetik, justizia hori bertutearen atal bat dela diozu?