Plato, Philebus, section 25b

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[25b] all these might properly be assigned to the class of the finite. What do you say to that?

Protarchus
Excellent, Socrates.

Socrates
Well, what shall we say is the nature of the third class, made by combining these two?

Protarchus
You will tell me, I fancy, by answering your own question.

Socrates
Nay, a god will do so, if any god will give ear to my prayers.

Protarchus
Pray, then, and watch.

Socrates
I am watching; and I think, Protarchus, one of the gods has this moment been gracious unto me.

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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