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Quotation from Euthydemus by Plato
“He would be like a person who pulls away a stool from some one when he is about to sit down, and then laughs and makes merry at the sight of his friend overturned and laid on his back”
Euthydemus, 278b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates reassures Cleinias that knowledge of verbal tricks makes no one wiser; it only lets him trip others up for amusement.
Citation: "He would be like a person who pulls away a stool from some one when he is about to sit down, and then laughs and makes merry at the sight of his friend overturned and laid on his back" — Plato, Euthydemus, 278b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-euthydemus-q2)
