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Socrates
If, then, we agree to that, he will laugh and say: “Socrates, do you remember the question you were asked?” “I do,” I shall say, “the question was what the absolute beautiful is.” “Then,” he will say, “when you were asked for the beautiful, do you give as your reply what is, as you yourself say, no more beautiful than ugly?” “So it seems,” I shall say; or what do you, my friend, advise me to say?Hippias
That is what I advise; for, of course, in saying that the human race is not beautiful in comparison with gods, you will be speaking the truth.Socrates
“But if I had asked you,” he will say, “in the beginning what is beautiful and ugly,
If, then, we agree to that, he will laugh and say: “Socrates, do you remember the question you were asked?” “I do,” I shall say, “the question was what the absolute beautiful is.” “Then,” he will say, “when you were asked for the beautiful, do you give as your reply what is, as you yourself say, no more beautiful than ugly?” “So it seems,” I shall say; or what do you, my friend, advise me to say?Hippias
That is what I advise; for, of course, in saying that the human race is not beautiful in comparison with gods, you will be speaking the truth.Socrates
“But if I had asked you,” he will say, “in the beginning what is beautiful and ugly,
