Plato, Greater Hippias, section 300c

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Socrates
You think it cannot be?

Hippias
I should have to be very inexperienced both in the nature of these things and in the language of our present discussion.

Socrates
Very pretty, Hippias. But there is a chance that I think I see a case of that kind which you say is impossible, but do not really see it.

Hippias
There's no chance about it, Socrates, but you quite purposely see wrongly.

Socrates
And certainly many such cases appear before my mind, but I mistrust them because they do not appear to you,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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