Plato, Euthydemus, section 291c

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[291c] and found ourselves practically at the beginning of our search, and just as sorely in want as when we first started on it.

Crito
How did this happen to you, Socrates?

Socrates
I will tell you. We took the view that the statesman's and the monarch's arts were one and the same.

Crito
Well, what then?

Socrates
To this art, we thought, generalship and the other arts handed over the management of the productions of their own trades, as this one alone knew how to use them. So it seemed clear to us that this was the one we were seeking,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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