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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: for they do literally nothing which they will, but only what they think
best.
POLUS: And is not that a great power?
SOCRATES: Polus has already said the reverse.
POLUS: Said the reverse! nay, that is what I assert.
SOCRATES: No, by the great--what do you call him?--not you, for you say
that power is a good to him who has the power.
POLUS: I do.
SOCRATES: And would you maintain that if a fool does what he thinks best,
this is a good, and would you call this great power?
POLUS: I should not.
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