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Socrates
But by far the greatest number, I fancy, err in the third way, about the qualities of, the soul, thinking that they excel in virtue when they do not.Protarchus
Yes, most decidedly.Socrates
And of all the virtues, is not wisdom the one to which people in general lay claim, thereby filling themselves with strife and false conceit of wisdom?Protarchus
Yes, to be sure.Socrates
And we should surely be right in calling all that an evil condition.Protarchus
Very much so.Socrates
Then this must further be divided into two parts, if we are to gain insight into childish envy with its absurd mixture of pleasure and pain. “How shall we divide it,” do you say? All who have this false and foolish conceit
But by far the greatest number, I fancy, err in the third way, about the qualities of, the soul, thinking that they excel in virtue when they do not.Protarchus
Yes, most decidedly.Socrates
And of all the virtues, is not wisdom the one to which people in general lay claim, thereby filling themselves with strife and false conceit of wisdom?Protarchus
Yes, to be sure.Socrates
And we should surely be right in calling all that an evil condition.Protarchus
Very much so.Socrates
Then this must further be divided into two parts, if we are to gain insight into childish envy with its absurd mixture of pleasure and pain. “How shall we divide it,” do you say? All who have this false and foolish conceit
