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Alcibiades
Alc. Apparently not.
Socrates
Soc. And you refer me to teachers of that sort, whom you admit yourself to be without knowledge?
Alcibiades
Alc. It seems I do.
Socrates
Soc. Then how is it likely that you should know what is just and unjust, when you are so bewildered about these matters and are shown to have neither learnt them from anyone nor discovered them for yourself?.
Alcibiades
Alc. By what you say, it is not likely.
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Socrates
Soc. There again, Alcibiades, do you see how unfairly you speak?
Alcibiades
Alc. In what ?
Socrates
Soc. In stating that I say so.
Alcibiades
Alc. Why, do you not say that l do not know about the just and unjust?
Socrates
Soc. Not at all.
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Alcibiades
Alc. Well, do I say it?
Alcibiades
Alc. How, pray ?
Socrates
Soc. I will show you, in the following way. If I ask you which is the greater number, one or two, you will answer two?
Alcibiades
Alc. Yes, I shall.
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Socrates
Soc. How much greater?
Socrates
Soc. Then which of us says that two are one more than one?
Socrates
Soc. And I was asking, and you were answering?
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