Plato, Philebus, section 65b

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[65b] and to decide which of them is more akin to the highest good and of greater value among men and gods.

Protarchus
That is clear; but still it is better to carry on the discussion to the end.

Socrates
Let us, then, judge each of the three separately in its relation to pleasure and mind; for it is our duty to see to which of the two we shall assign each of them as more akin.

Protarchus
You refer to beauty, truth, and measure?

Socrates
Yes. Take truth first, Protarchus; take it and look at the three—mind, truth,

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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