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Alcibiades
You are jesting, Socrates.Socrates
Perhaps; I am right, however, in saying that we need to take pains—all men rather badly, but we two very badly indeed.Alcibiades
As to me, you are not wrong.Socrates
Nor, I fear, as to myself either.Alcibiades
Then what can we do?Socrates
There must be no crying off or skulking, my good friend.Alcibiades
No, for that would indeed be unseemly, Socrates.Socrates
It would; so let us consider in common. Now tell me:
You are jesting, Socrates.Socrates
Perhaps; I am right, however, in saying that we need to take pains—all men rather badly, but we two very badly indeed.Alcibiades
As to me, you are not wrong.Socrates
Nor, I fear, as to myself either.Alcibiades
Then what can we do?Socrates
There must be no crying off or skulking, my good friend.Alcibiades
No, for that would indeed be unseemly, Socrates.Socrates
It would; so let us consider in common. Now tell me: