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So now we find that the philosopher is a useless person? For I suppose we always have craftsmen; and we have agreed that good men are useful, and bad ones useless.He was obliged to agree to this.Then what follows? Am I to ask you, or will it be too ill-mannered?Ask whatever you please.Well, my aim, I said, is merely to recall our agreements upon
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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