Wherefore, seeing that human things are thus ordered, what should a wise man do or think, or not do or think'?
CLEINIAS: Every man ought to make up his mind that he will be one of the followers of God; there can be no doubt of that.
ATHENIAN: Then what life is agreeable to God, and becoming in His followers?
One only, expressed once for all in the old saying that 'like agrees with like, with measure measure,' but things which have no measure agree neither with themselves nor with the things which have.
Now God ought to be to us the measure of all things, and not man (compare Crat.; Theaet.), as men commonly say (Protagoras): the words are far more true of Him.

And he who would be dear to God must, as far as is possible, be like Him and such as He is.

Wherefore the temperate man is the friend of God, for he is like Him; and the intemperate man is unlike Him, and different from Him, and unjust.

And the same applies to other things; and this is the conclusion, which is also the noblest and truest of all sayings,--that for the good man to offer sacrifice to the Gods, and hold converse with them by means of prayers and offerings and every kind of service, is the noblest and best of all things, and also the most conducive to a happy life, and very fit and meet.

But with the bad man, the opposite of this is true: for the bad man has an impure soul, whereas the good is pure; and from one who is polluted, neither a good man nor God can without impropriety receive gifts.