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Plato, Timaeus, LCL 234: Plato IX
Translated by R. G. Bury

Number of quotes: 4


Book ID: 421 Page: 49

Section: 4B

SOC. Bounteous and magnificent, methinks, is the feast of speech with which I am to be requited. So then, Timaeus, it will be your task, it seems, to speak next, when you have duly invoked the gods.

TIM. Nay, as to that, Socrates, all men who possess even a small share of good sense call upon God always at the outset of every undertaking, be it small or great; we therefore who are purposing to deliver a discourse concerning the Universe, how it was created or haply is uncreate, must needs invoke Gods and Goddesses (if so be that we are not utterly demented)….

Quote ID: 8615

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Book ID: 421 Page: 53

Section: 5D

…as Being is to Becoming, so is Truth to Believe.

Quote ID: 8616

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Book ID: 421 Page: 53

Section: 5D

…we should be content if we can furnish accounts that are inferior to none in likelihood, remembering that both I who speak and you who judge are but human creatures, so that it becomes us to accept the likely account of these matters and forbear to search beyond it.

Quote ID: 8617

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Book ID: 421 Page: 61

Section: 4B

Now of the four elements the construction of the Cosmos had taken up the whole of everyone. For its Constructor had constructed it of all the fire and water and air and earth….

Quote ID: 8618

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