"And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation."

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Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and his dialogues are foundational texts in Western philosophy.

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