A beauty that always is, neither coming to be nor passing away, neither increasing nor diminishing; nor again beautiful in one part and ugly in another.
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The 8 quotations by Plato, each linked to the position it expresses.
A beauty that always is, neither coming to be nor passing away, neither increasing nor diminishing; nor again beautiful in one part and ugly in another.
Nature herself shows that it is just for the better to have more than the worse, and the more capable than the less.
Seeking and learning are in fact nothing but recollection.
The Good is not being, but still beyond being, surpassing it in dignity and power.
This dwelling is the prison; the light of the fire in it is the sun; and the upward journey is the ascent of the soul into the intelligible region.
Those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying.
To them, would not the truth be literally nothing but the shadows of the artificial objects?
What is that which always is and has no becoming, and what is that which is always becoming and never is?