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the things praised and censured by
the lover of gain would necessarily be truest and most real.”
“Quite necessarily.” “And if honor, victory
and courage, would it not be the things praised by the lover of honor and
victory?” “Obviously.” “But since
the tests are experience and wisdom and discussion, what follows?”
“Of necessity,” he said, “that the things
approved by the lover of wisdom and discussion are most valid and
true.”
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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