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Quotation from Theaetetus by Plato

“the sophist accomplishes by words the change which the physician works by the aid of drugs”

Plato (spoken by Socrates, speaking for Protagoras)

Theaetetus, Defence of Protagoras, c. 167a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

In the speech Socrates composes for Protagoras, the wise man does not make beliefs truer but changes a worse state of mind into a better one.

Citation: "the sophist accomplishes by words the change which the physician works by the aid of drugs" — Plato, Theaetetus, Defence of Protagoras, c. 167a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-theaetetus-q5)

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