Plato, Alcibiades 2, section 145a

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[145a] and in a word, whatever the city does to another city or within herself, all comes about by the advice of the orators.

Alcibiades
That is true.

Socrates
Then observe the consequence.

Alcibiades
If I am able.

Socrates
Why, surely you call men either wise or unwise?

Alcibiades
I do.

Socrates
And the many unwise, and the few wise?

Alcibiades
Precisely.

Socrates
And in either case you name them in reference to something?

Alcibiades
Yes.

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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