Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 366a

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[366a]

Hippias
Wise, surely, in just this, deception.

Socrates
Stop. Let us recall what you say. You say that the false are powerful and intelligent, and knowing and wise in those things in which they are false?

Hippias
Yes, I do.

Socrates
And that the true and the false are different and complete opposites of one another?

Hippias
I do.

Socrates
Well, then, the false are among the powerful and the wise, according to your statement.

Hippias
Certainly.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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