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Often appears with: truthfulness and lying · temperance and self-mastery · temperance and covetousness · education and memory · courage and fear of death · courage and cowardice · ambition and the love of glory
Usually: list or catalogue (1) · detachment (1) · praise (1)
Socrates lists character criteria for philosopher-kings—truthfulness, love of all truth, temperance, generosity, courage, good memory, proportionality, and a natural attraction to the true being of all things.
Never. The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth? Assuredly. But then again, as we know by experience, he whose desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel. True. He whose desires are drawn towards knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures o…