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And there is no reason, I daresay, why your statement should not be right; but still I wonder, I went on, whether you judge that temperate men are ignorant of their temperance.No, I do not, he said.A little while ago, I said, were you not saying that there was no reason why craftsmen should not be temperate in making others' things as well?Yes, I was, he said, but what of it ?Nothing; only tell me whether you think that a doctor, in making someone healthy,
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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