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[486d] “which will bring you to inhabit empty halls”; and emulate, not men who probe these trifles, but who have means and repute and other good things in plenty.

Socrates
If my soul had happened to be made of gold, Callicles, do you not think I should have been delighted to find one of those stones with which they test gold, and the best one; which, if I applied it, and it confirmed to me that my soul had been properly tended, would give me full assurance that I am in a satisfactory state and


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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  • Commentary references to this page (4):
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 184A
    • R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 217A
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 487b
    • Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 521d
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    • Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.2
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