“You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.”

—  Protagoras

As quoted in Protagoras by Plato

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pre-Socratic Greek philosopher -486–-411 BC

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