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Symposium from Plato

How I wish, said Socrates, taking his place as he was desired, that wisdom could be infused by touch, out of the fuller into the emptier man, as water runs through wool out of a fuller cup into an emptier one.

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But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

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