Plato, Alcibiades 2, section 138a

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[138a]

Socrates
Alcibiades, are you on your way to offer a prayer to the god?

Alcibiades
I am, certainly, Socrates.

Socrates
You seem, let me say, to have a gloomy look, and to keep your eyes on the ground, as though you were pondering something.

Alcibiades
And what might one ponder, Socrates?

Socrates
The greatest of questions, Alcibiades,

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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