Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 109e

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[109e] I would by no means take in vain. Come, if you can, tell me who the man is.

Alcibiades
But what if I cannot? Do you think I could not know about what is just and unjust in any other way?

Socrates
Yes, you might, supposing you discovered it.

Alcibiades
But do you not think I might discover it?

Socrates
Yes, quite so, if you inquired.

Alcibiades
And do you not think I might inquire?

Socrates
I do, if you thought you did not know.

Alcibiades
And was there not a time when I held that view?

Socrates
Well spoken. Then can you tell me at what time it was

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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