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And that whereby they punish rightly is that whereby they know the good and bad people?It is.And whoever knows one will know many also?Yes.And whoever does not know many will not know one?I agree.Then if one were a horse, and did not know the good and wicked horses, would one not know which sort one was oneself?I think not.And if one were an ox and did not know the wicked and good oxen, would one not know which sort one was oneself?That is so, he said.And so it would be, if one were a dog?He agreed.
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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