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Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women; and look after their souls when they are in labour, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth

I ask questions of others and have not the wit to answer them myself

therefore I am not myself at all wise, nor have I anything to show which is the invention or birth of my own soul, but those who converse with me profit