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Alcibiades I

Plato

Socrates approaches the young Alcibiades, about to enter Athenian politics, and shows him that he does not know what is just or advantageous. To govern others one must first care for oneself, and the self is the soul; the soul knows itself by looking into another soul, as the eye sees itself in the pupil of another eye. It is the great ancient reading of 'know thyself'.