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Contents: CratylusTheaetetusSophistStatesman |
Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman
Theaetetus: Socrates
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[176b] and to escape is to become like God, so far as this is possible; and to become like God is to become righteous and holy and wise. But, indeed, my good friend, it is not at all easy to persuade people that the reason generally advanced for the pursuit of virtue and the avoidance of vice--namely, in order that a man may not seem bad and may seem good--is not the reason why the one should be practiced and the other not; that, I think, is merely old wives' chatter, as the saying is.
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Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
501 [Neuter pronouns referring to masculine or feminine substantives. ]
Cross references from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
2, 380D
10, 613A
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. OCLC: 21777623, 26697110, 20083931 ISBN: 0674991850, 0674991370, 0674991826
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