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For my part, I should have both, he replied.Please do not say “both,” I said, but which of the two you would prefer and also summon first.No one, he replied,would make any question but that the doctor should be preferred and also summoned first.And again, if you were in a ship that was making rough weather, to which would you rather entrust yourself and yours, the pilot or the philosopher?I should choose the pilot.And so it will be in everything else: so long as there is some craftsman, the philosopher will not be useful?Apparently, he replied.
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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