Plato, Gorgias, section 497e

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[497e] as you call beautiful those in whom beauty is present?

Callicles
I do.

Socrates
Well now, do you give the name of good men to fools and cowards? It was not they just now but brave and wise men whom you so described. Or is it not these that you call good?

Callicles
To be sure it is.

Socrates
And now, have you ever seen a silly child enjoying itself?

Callicles
I have.

Socrates
And have you never seen a silly man enjoying himself?

Callicles
I should think I have; but what has that to do with it?

Socrates
Nothing; only answer.

Callicles
I have seen one.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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