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The Republic - Plato ยท 72 words
All these sciences are the prelude of the strain, and are profitable if they are regarded in their natural relations to one another. I dare say, Socrates, said Glaucon; but such a study will be an endless business. What study do you mean of the prelude, or what. For all these things are only the prelude, and you surely do not suppose that a mere mathematician is also a dialectician. Certainly not.
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