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Is
not that so?” “Yes.” “Let us not,
then, leave it half said but consider it fully.” “Speak
on,” he said. “The painter, we say, will paint both
reins and a bit.” “Yes.” “But the
maker1 will be the
cobbler and the smith.” “Certainly.”
“Does the painter, then, know the proper quality of reins and bit?
Or does not even the maker, the cobbler and the smith, know that, but only
the man who understands the use of these things, the horseman2?” “Most true.” “And shall
we not say
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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