Protagoras
by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett
⇥ When he had given this answer, the company cheered him. And I said: Protagoras, I have a wretched memory, and when any one makes a long speech to me I never remember what he is talking about. As then, if I had been deaf, and you were going to converse with me, you would have had to raise your voice; so now, having such a bad memory, I will ask you to cut your answers shorter, if you would take me with you.⏎⇥ What do you mean? he said: how am I to shorten my answers? shall I make them too short?⏎⇥ Certainly not, I said.⏎⇥ But short enough?⏎⇥ Yes, I said.⏎⇥ Shall I answer what appears to me to be short enough, or what appears to you to be short enough?⏎⇥ I have heard, I said, that you can speak and teach others to speak about the same things at such length that words never seemed to fail, or with such brevity that no one could use fewer of them. Please therefore, if you talk with me, to adopt the latter or more compendious method.🏁
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Protagoras
by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett
⇥ When he had given this answer, the company cheered him. And I said: Protagoras, I have a wretched memory, and when any one makes a long speech to me I never remember what he is talking about. As then, if I had been deaf, and you were going to converse with me, you would have had to raise your voice; so now, having such a bad memory, I will ask you to cut your answers shorter, if you would take me with you.⏎⇥ What do you mean? he said: how am I to shorten my answers? shall I make them too short?⏎⇥ Certainly not, I said.⏎⇥ But short enough?⏎⇥ Yes, I said.⏎⇥ Shall I answer what appears to me to be short enough, or what appears to you to be short enough?⏎⇥ I have heard, I said, that you can speak and teach others to speak about the same things at such length that words never seemed to fail, or with such brevity that no one could use fewer of them. Please therefore, if you talk with me, to adopt the latter or more compendious method.🏁
Submitted by semi - 04/13/2026
Book Philosophy 5.74 Ranked