Plato, Sophist, section 229a

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[229a]

Stranger
For deformity there is gymnastics, and for disease medicine.

Theaetetus
That is clear.

Stranger
Hence for insolence and injustice and cowardice is not the corrective art the one of all arts most closely related to Justice?

Theaetetus
Probably it is, at least according to the judgement of mankind.

Stranger
And for all sorts of ignorance is there any art it would be more correct to suggest than that of instruction?

Theaetetus
No, none.

Stranger
Come now, think. Shall we say that

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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