Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 110e

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[110e]

Alcibiades
From the many.

Socrates
They are no very serious teachers with whom you take refuge, if you ascribe it to the many!

Alcibiades
Why, are they not competent to teach?

Socrates
Not how to play, or not to play, draughts; and yet that, I imagine, is a slight matter compared with justice. What? Do you not think so?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
Then if they are unable to teach the slighter, can they teach the more serious matter?

Alcibiades
I think so: at any rate, there are many other things that they are able to teach, more serious than draughts.

Socrates
What sort of things?

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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