Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 118d

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[118d]

Socrates
And you too, who learnt from him, will be able to make another man wise?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
And the same holds of the harper and the trainer?

Alcibiades
Certainly.

Socrates
For, I presume, it is a fine proof of one's knowing anything that one knows, when one is able to point to another man whom one has made to know it.

Alcibiades
I agree.

Socrates
Well then, can you tell me whom Pericles made wise? One of his sons, to begin with?

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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