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Socrates
Well then, when an orator or a king is able to rival the greatness of Lycurgus or Solon or Darius and attain immortality as a writer in the state, does he not while living think himself equal to the gods, and has not posterity the same opinion of him, when they see his writings?Phaedrus
Very true.Socrates
Do you think, then, that any of the statesmen, no matter how ill-disposed toward Lysias, reproaches him for being a writer?Phaedrus
It is not likely, according to what you say; for he would be casting reproach upon that which he himself desires to be.
Well then, when an orator or a king is able to rival the greatness of Lycurgus or Solon or Darius and attain immortality as a writer in the state, does he not while living think himself equal to the gods, and has not posterity the same opinion of him, when they see his writings?Phaedrus
Very true.Socrates
Do you think, then, that any of the statesmen, no matter how ill-disposed toward Lysias, reproaches him for being a writer?Phaedrus
It is not likely, according to what you say; for he would be casting reproach upon that which he himself desires to be.
