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“May I ask whether by
friends you mean those who seem1 to a man to be worthy or those who really are so, even if they do
not seem, and similarly of enemies?” “It is
likely,” he said, “that men will love those whom they
suppose to be good and dislike those whom they deem bad.”
“Do not men make mistakes in this matter so that many seem good to
them who are not and the reverse?” “They do.”
“For those, then, who thus err the good are their enemies and the
bad their friends?” “Certainly.”
“But all the same is then just for them to benefit the bad
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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