[618c]
And this is the chief reason why it should be our main concern that each
of us, neglecting all other studies, should seek after and study this
thing1—if in any way he may be able to learn of and
discover the man who will give him the ability and the knowledge to
distinguish the life that is good from that which is bad, and always and
everywhere to choose the best that the conditions allow, and, taking into
account all the things of which we have spoken and estimating the effect on
the goodness of his life of their conjunction or their severance, to know
how beauty commingled with poverty or wealth and combined with
1 Cf. 443-444, 591 E-592 A, Gorg. 527 B f., Laws 662 B f., 904 A ff.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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