Plato, Statesman, section 309d

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[309d] is the only one to whom the power properly belongs, by the inspiration of the kingly art, to implant this true opinion in those who have rightly received education, those of whom we were just now speaking?

Younger Socrates
Well, probably.

Stranger
And let us never, Socrates, call him who has not such power by the names we are now examining.

Younger Socrates
Quite right.

Stranger
Now is not a courageous soul, when it lays hold upon such truth, made gentle,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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