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“Yes,
far.” “And how does he compare with the lover of honor?
Is he more unacquainted with the pleasure of being honored than that other
with that which comes from knowledge?” “Nay,
honor,” he said, “if they achieve their several objects,
attends them all; for the rich man is honored by many and the brave man and
the wise, so that all are acquainted with the kind of pleasure that honor
brings; but it is impossible for anyone except the lover of wisdom to have
savored the delight that the contemplation of true being and reality
brings.”
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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