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I shall not make the attempt, my dear man; but to avoid any

misunderstanding occurring between us in future, let me ask, in

what sense do you speak of a ruler or stronger whose interest, as

you were saying, he being the superior, it is just that the

inferior should execute-is he a ruler in the popular or in the

strict sense of the term?

In the strictest of all senses, he said. And now cheat and play

the informer if you can; I ask no quarter at your hands. But you

never will be able, never.

And do you imagine, I said, that I am such a madman as to try and

cheat, Thrasymachus? I might as well shave a lion.

Why, he said, you made the attempt a minute ago, and you failed.

Enough, I said, of these civilities. It will be better that I

should ask you a question: Is the physician, taken in that strict

sense of which you are speaking, a healer of the sick or a maker

of money? And remember that I am now speaking of the true

physician.

A healer of the sick, he replied.