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or judge any matter, it is disgraceful for him, my good friend, in such cases, to be found in the second or third place, and not to lead?I agree.Hence we see, my excellent sir, that philosophizing is very far from being much learning and that affair of busying oneself with the arts.On my saying this the cultivated youth was silent, feeling ashamed for what he had said before, while the unlearned one said it was as I stated; and the rest of the company praised the argument.
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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