“Yes, the same sort of likeness which a wolf…” Plato

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“Yes, the same sort of likeness which a wolf, who is the fiercest of animals, has to a dog, who is the gentlest”

Plato (spoken by The Eleatic Stranger)

Sophist, Sixth division, c. 231a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Theaetetus notes that the sophist resembles the purifier of souls; the Stranger warns that resemblances are slippery.

Citation: "Yes, the same sort of likeness which a wolf, who is the fiercest of animals, has to a dog, who is the gentlest" — Plato, Sophist, Sixth division, c. 231a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q2)

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