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Alcibiades
Alc. Why, yes.
Socrates
Soc. Come then, let us consider who these people are. We have admitted that some are unwise, some wise, and others mad.
Alcibiades
Alc. Yes, we have.
Socrates
Soc. And again, there are some in sound health?
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Alcibiades
Alc. There are.
Socrates
Soc. And others also who are in ill-health?
Alcibiades
Alc. Quite so.
Socrates
Soc. And they are not the same?
Alcibiades
Alc. No, indeed.
Socrates
Soc. And are there any others besides, who are found to be in neither state?
Alcibiades
Alc. No, to be sure.
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Socrates
Soc. For a human being must needs be either sick or not sick.
Socrates
Soc. Well then, do you hold the same view about wisdom and unwisdom?
Alcibiades
Alc. How do you mean?
Socrates
Soc. Tell me, do you think it is only possible to be either wise or unwise, or is there some third condition between these, which makes a man neither wise nor unwise?
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Alcibiades
Alc. No, there is not.
Socrates
Soc. So he must needs be in one or the other of these two conditions.
Socrates
Soc. And you remember that you admitted that madness is the opposite of wisdom?
