Plato, Meno, section 71c

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[71c] that you do not even know what virtue is? Are we to return home with this report of you?

Socrates
Not only this, my friend, but also that I never yet came across anybody who did know, in my opinion.

Meno
What? You did not meet Gorgias when he was here?

Socrates
I did.

Meno
And you didn't consider that he knew?

Socrates
I have not a very good memory, Meno, so I cannot tell at the moment how he struck me then. It may be that he did know, and that you know what he said:

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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