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But we also think that some people are wise in general
and not in one department, not ‘wise in something else,’1
as Homer says in the Margites: “
Neither a delver nor a ploughman him
The Gods had made, nor wise in aught beside.
” Hence it is clear that Wisdom must be the most perfect of the modes of knowledge.
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1 The sense rather requires ‘wise in some particular thing,’ but the expression is assimilated to the quotation.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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