Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 110c

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[110c]

Alcibiades
Well, but on my word, I was not ignorant: no, I clearly understood that I was being wronged.

Socrates
So you thought you knew, even as a child, it seems, what was just and unjust.

Alcibiades
I did; and I knew too.

Socrates
At what sort of time did you discover it? For surely it was not while you thought you knew.

Alcibiades
No, indeed.

Socrates
Then when did you think you were ignorant? Consider; I believe you will fail to find such a time.

Alcibiades
Upon my word, Socrates, I really cannot say.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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