Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades

[...They speak.] It seems ridiculous to me to examine the affairs of men; for nothing has developed in us more than this. Many who recognize things fittingly now flow into a mechanism of what is being sought; for indeed, just as it is naturally removed from us, having considered it entangled in this struggle, with much lack of destruction available, but with good zeal for those who have taken hold of what is to be mastered, into an essence toward precision and for them to be a beginning of liberation, he will not endure to say it is to be viewed upon themselves, so that from there it is also necessary for all those who have been diminished and are striving; for indeed for us each and of the others whom more actively both in the same deposits, just as also the knowledge; for indeed we ourselves, being held by the power not of seizing and being moved by the guidance of the power by the supply of similar things; and as if some of the things being read of the reason calling to us and of the truth we are bound, so that we may not depart from the composition ourselves, and we relinquish the care appropriate to us, to their predecessors, the knowledge of every kind of shape and, so to speak, of all philosophical theory; he uses. But as for us, with memory thus readily knowing, not putting it to be of oneself; and of the many and of those who are from us, the purposes of the words which the great man has written about him; not indeed, but also...