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many flatterers, who on arriving at manhood should become aware that he is not
the child of those who call themselves his parents, and should I not be able to
find his true father and mother. Can you divine what would be his feelings
towards the flatterers and his supposed parents in the time when he did not know
the truth about his adoption, and, again, when he knew it? Or would you like to
hear my surmise?” “I would.”“Well, then, my surmise is,” I said,
“that he would be more likely to honor
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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