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Phaedrus
Where then?

Socrates
I suppose, my friend, Pericles is the most perfect orator in existence.

Phaedrus
Well?

Socrates
All great arts demand discussion and high speculation about nature; for this loftiness of mind and


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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