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Quotation from Euthydemus by Plato
“we were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us”
Euthydemus, 291b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates tells Crito how the search for the art of happiness slipped away as they approached the kingly art.
Citation: "we were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us" — Plato, Euthydemus, 291b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-euthydemus-q5)
