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Secondly, I presume, whether his friends entrust him with an arbitration, or the state charges him to determine 139a 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?
Secondly, I presume, whether his friends entrust him with an arbitration, or the state charges him to determine 139a 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.
Lovers. Plato. Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1927.
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