Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 107b

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Socrates
For a builder will give better advice than you in that matter.

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
Nor yet will it be about divination?

Alcibiades
No.

Socrates
For there again a diviner will serve better than you.

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
Whether he be short or tall, handsome or ugly, nay, noble or ignoble.

Alcibiades
Of course.

Socrates
For on each subject the advice comes from one who knows, not one who has riches.

Alcibiades
Of course.

Socrates
And whether their mentor be poor or rich will make no difference to the Athenians when they deliberate

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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