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for they have got bad ones, and to benefit their
enemies, for they are good. And so we shall find ourselves saying the very
opposite of what we affirmed Simonides to mean.” “Most
certainly,” he said, “it does work out so. But let us
change our ground; for it looks as if we were wrong in the notion we took up
about the friend and the enemy.” “What notion,
Polemarchus?” “That the man who seems to us good is the
friend.” “And to what shall we change it now?”
said I. “That the man who both seems and is good is the friend,
but that he who seems
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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