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Socrates
Nonsense! If he were praising your running and said he had never met any young man who was so good a runner, and then you were beaten in a race by a full grown man who held the record, do you think his praise would be any less truthful?Theaetetus
Why, no.Socrates
And do you think that the discovery of knowledge, as I was just now saying, is a small matter and not a task for the very ablest men?Theaetetus
By Zeus, I think it is a task for the very ablest.Socrates
Then you must have confidence in yourself, and believe that Theodorus is right,
Nonsense! If he were praising your running and said he had never met any young man who was so good a runner, and then you were beaten in a race by a full grown man who held the record, do you think his praise would be any less truthful?Theaetetus
Why, no.Socrates
And do you think that the discovery of knowledge, as I was just now saying, is a small matter and not a task for the very ablest men?Theaetetus
By Zeus, I think it is a task for the very ablest.Socrates
Then you must have confidence in yourself, and believe that Theodorus is right,