Plato, Philebus, section 48d

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[48d]

Socrates
Yes; and the opposite of that, in the language of the inscription, would evidently be not to know oneself at all.

Protarchus
Of course.

Socrates
Protarchus, try to divide this into three.

Protarchus
How do you mean? I am afraid I can never do it.

Socrates
Then you say that I must now make the division?

Protarchus
Yes, I say so, and I beg you to do so, besides.

Socrates
Must not all those who do not know themselves be affected by their condition in one of three ways?

Protarchus
How is that?

Socrates
First in regard to wealth; such a man thinks he is

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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