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Soc. In the same way, then, have men divided unwisdom also among them, and those who have the largest share of it we call mad, and those who have a little less, dolts and idiots; though people who prefer to use the mildest language term them sometimes romantic, μεγαλόψυχος has here declined from high-souled or magnanimous to something like Quixotic. sometimes simpleminded, εὐήθης, even in Plato’s time, varied between good-hearted and silly. or again innocent, inexperienced, or obtuse; and many another name will you find if you look for more. But all these things are unwisdom, though they differ, as we observed that one art or one disease differs from another. Or how does it strike you?
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Alc. That is my view.
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Soc. Then let us turn at this point and retrace our steps. For we said, you know, at the beginning that we must consider who the unwise can be, and who the wise: for we had admitted that there are such persons, had we not?
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Alc. Yes, we have admitted it.
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Soc. Then you conceive those to be wise who know what one ought to do and say?
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Alc. I do.
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Soc. And which are the unwise? Those who know neither of these things?
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Alc. The same.
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Soc. And those who know neither of these things will say and do unawares what one ought not?
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Alc. Apparently.
