“Then, my dear boy, I said, the knowledge…” Plato

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“Then, my dear boy, I said, the knowledge which we want is one that uses as well as makes”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Euthydemus, 289b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

In the second exhortation Socrates and Cleinias specify the kind of knowledge that could make a person happy.

Citation: "Then, my dear boy, I said, the knowledge which we want is one that uses as well as makes" — Plato, Euthydemus, 289b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-euthydemus-q4)

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Quotation from Euthydemus by Plato