Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 128b

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[128b]

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
Now when we take pains over our shoes, we take pains over our feet?

Alcibiades
I do not quite understand, Socrates.

Socrates
Well, but, Alcibiades, you speak of taking proper pains over this or that matter, do you not?

Alcibiades
I do.

Socrates
And do you call it proper pains when someone makes a thing better?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
Then what art makes shoes better?

Alcibiades
Shoe-making.

Socrates
So by shoe-making we take pains over our shoes?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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