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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato
“there is an ancient saying, that “hard is the knowledge of the good.” And the knowledge of names is a great part of knowledge”
Cratylus, Stephanus 384a-b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates' first reply to Hermogenes, before joking that he could afford only Prodicus' single-drachma lecture on names.
Citation: "there is an ancient saying, that “hard is the knowledge of the good.” And the knowledge of names is a great part of knowledge" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 384a-b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q1)
