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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: This is undeniably true.
And this, as possessing measure, must undeniably also be an art and
science?
They will agree, he said.
The nature of that art or science will be a matter of future consideration;
but the existence of such a science furnishes a demonstrative answer to the
question which you asked of me and Protagoras. At the time when you asked
the question, if you remember, both of us were agreeing that there was
nothing mightier than knowledge, and that knowledge, in whatever existing,
must have the advantage over pleasure and all other things; and then you
said that pleasure often got the advantage even over a man who has
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