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Quotation from Meno by Plato

“When I ask you for one virtue, you present me with a swarm of them”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Meno, 72a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871)

Socrates teases Meno for answering with a list of virtues for each age and station instead of saying what virtue is.

Citation: "When I ask you for one virtue, you present me with a swarm of them" — Plato, Meno, 72a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). (id plato-meno-q2)

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