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Quotation from Charmides, Lysis and Laches by Plato
“And yet, my dear Critias, none of these things will be well or beneficially done, if the science of the good be wanting”
Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 174c), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Medicine, shoemaking and generalship will still do their work, but none will benefit us without knowledge of good and evil.
Citation: "And yet, my dear Critias, none of these things will be well or beneficially done, if the science of the good be wanting" — Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches, Charmides (Stephanus 174c), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-charmides-lysis-laches-q5)
