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Quotation from Protagoras by Plato
“Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells”
Protagoras, Stephanus 313c (in Socrates' courtyard, before the visit), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates warns Hippocrates that a sophist is a merchant whose goods go directly into the soul, setting the moral stakes of the whole meeting.
Citation: "Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells" — Plato, Protagoras, Stephanus 313c (in Socrates' courtyard, before the visit), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-protagoras-q1)
