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among mankind. But I expect they are not so really, my friend, and that philosophizing is not just having a concernment in the arts or spending one's life in meddlesome stooping and prying and accumulation of learning, but something else; because I imagined that this life was actually a disgrace, and that people who concerned themselves with the arts were called sordid.1 But we shall know more definitely whether this statement of mine is true, if you will answer me this: What men know how to punish horses rightly?
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