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as the craftsmen do, but to have a moderate contact with all of them.Well, after this answer I was eager to know clearly what he meant, so I inquired of him whether he conceived of good men as useful or useless.Useful, I should say, Socrates, he replied.Then if good men are useful, are wicked men useless?He agreed that they were.Again, do you consider that philosophers are useful persons or not?
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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