The Republic

Plato · composed c. 360 BCE primary

passage 118 of 208 · Book I and the first half of Book II down to the paragraph beginning, > BOOK V (23/23)

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in brief

Socrates concludes that loving the truth in each thing counts as loving wisdom rather than opinion, and adds that no one should be angry at what is true.

I shall tell them not to be angry; no man should be angry at what is true.

But those who love the truth in each thing are to be called lovers of wisdom and not lovers of opinion.

Assuredly.

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topics: education and the training of the young · justice as a virtue

The Republic · Plato · 360 BCE