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 1 Pre |      is very un-Platonic. The best passage is probably that
 2 Text|  Perhaps, if you give me your best attention, ‘two of us’ looking
 3 Text|   attending, Socrates, to the best of my power.~SOCRATES: We
 4 Text|   they who seem to have fared best, have not only gone through
 5 Text|       of praying for what was best: to call down evils seems
 6 Text|      senses and knew what was best for him to do, would ever
 7 Text|       appear, which is of the best and does not know what is
 8 Text|     and does not know what is best?~ALCIBIADES: So I think,
 9 Text|    man who is ignorant of the best, having occasionally the
10 Text|    whim that what is worst is best?~ALCIBIADES: No.)~SOCRATES:—
11 Text|       by the knowledge of the best, will more often than not
12 Text|     time the knowledge of the best course of action:—and the
13 Text|     course of action:—and the best and the useful are surely
14 Text|    call him who knows what is best according to that art? Do
15 Text|      of one who knows what is best in riding as a good rider?~
16 Text|     had this knowledge of the best, and there was no one who
17 Text|         I mean that which was best in any art, while he was
18 Text| entirely ignorant of what was best for himself and for the
19 Text|       many fail to obtain the best because they trust to opinion
20 Text|     also the knowledge of the best?~ALCIBIADES: I do now, if
21 Text|   having the knowledge of the best, so much the more is she
22 Text|  possess the knowledge of the best, but is under some other
23 Text|       think you, would be the best way to take advantage of