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Many whom I meet are unable to make trial of me, because they are not wise as you are; others are wise, but they will not tell me the truth, because they have not the same interest in me which you have; and these two strangers, Gorgias and Polus, are

undoubtedly wise men and my very good friends, but they are not outspoken enough, and they are too modest
Source: Plato, Gorgias

Would you like me to explain my meaning, Ion? ION: Yes, indeed, Socrates; I very much wish that you would: for I love to hear you wise men talk
Source: Plato, Ion

But if states are to be named after their rulers, the true state ought to be called by the name of the God who rules over wise men
Source: Plato, Laws

SOCRATES: You see, Hippias, as I have already told you, how pertinacious I am in asking questions of wise men
Source: Plato, Lesser Hippias

Then what is to be done? Or rather is there anything to be done? I can only, like the wise men who argue in courts, sum up the arguments:--If neither the beloved, nor the lover, nor the like, nor the unlike, nor the good, nor the congenial, nor any other of whom we spoke--for there were such a number of them that I cannot remember all--if none of these are friends, I know not what remains to be said
Source: Plato, Lysis

MENO: Why not? SOCRATES: I will tell you why: I have heard from certain wise men and women who spoke of things divine that-- MENO: What did they say? SOCRATES: They spoke of a glorious truth, as I conceive
Source: Plato, Meno

But the wise men of our time are either too quick or too slow in conceiving plurality in unity
Source: Plato, Philebus

And now let us go, as we were intending, and hear Protagoras; and when we have heard what he has to say, we may take counsel of others; for not only is Protagoras at the house of Callias, but there is Hippias of Elis, and, if I am not mistaken, Prodicus of Ceos, and several other wise men
Source: Plato, Protagoras

And I should certainly have more reason to be ashamed of what wise men would say if I were to refuse a favour to

such as you, than of what the world, who are mostly fools, would say of me if I granted it.' To these words he replied in the ironical manner which is so characteristic of him:--'Alcibiades, my friend, you have indeed an elevated aim if what you say is true, and if there really is in me any power by which you may become better; truly you must see in me some rare beauty of a kind infinitely higher than any which I see in you
Source: Plato, Symposium

Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses
Source: Plato, The Republic

And, O my dear Socrates, I do not call wise men tadpoles: far from it; I say that they are the physicians of the human body, and the husbandmen of plants--for the husbandmen also take away the evil and disordered sensations of plants, and infuse into them good and healthy sensations--aye and true ones; and the wise and good rhetoricians make the good instead of the evil to seem just to states; for whatever appears to a state to be just and fair, so long as it is regarded as such, is just and fair to it; but the teacher of wisdom causes the good to take the place of the evil, both in appearance and in reality
Source: Plato, Theaetetus

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