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Often appears with: truthfulness and detesting falsehood · traits of philosopher-kings · temperance and self-mastery · educational requirements (good memory) · courage and fear of death · courage and cowardice
Usually: list or catalogue (1) · confronting death (1) · detachment (1)
Socrates specifies traits of a philosophical ruler: love of unchanging truth, detestation of falsehood, strong desire for knowledge, temperance, freedom from illiberality, courage against death-fear, and a well-proportioned mind with a good memory.
How can there be? Can the same nature be a lover of wisdom and a lover of falsehood? 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 whos…