Even a child could refute you

SocratesAlready at the start of our discussion, Polus, I for my part praised you, because you seem to me to have been well schooled in rhetoric but to have neglected conversation. And now, isn’t this the argument with which even a child could refute me, and haven’t I now, as you think, been refuted by you with this argument, for claiming that the one who does injustice is not happy? How can that be, my good fellow? And yet I don’t agree with you on a single one of the things you say.

471ePolusThat’s because you aren’t willing to, since it does seem to you the way I say.