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[467b]

Polus
Hark at the man————!

Socrates
I deny that they do what they wish: there, refute me.

Polus
Did you not admit just now that they do what they think best?

Socrates
Yes, and I admit it now.

Polus
Then do they not do what they wish?

Socrates
I say no.

Polus
When they do what they think fit?

Socrates
Yes.

Polus
What shocking, nay, monstrous answers, Socrates!


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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