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then on the contrary he
appears stupid. He is unseasonably distrustful and he cannot recognize a
sound character because he has no such pattern in himself. But since he more
often meets with the bad than the good, he seems to himself and to others to
be rather wise than foolish.” “That is quite
true,” he said.“Well
then,” said I, “such a one must not be our ideal of the
good and wise judge but the former. For while badness could never come to
know both virtue and itself, native virtue through education
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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