Plato, Philebus, section 53b

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[53b] is both the truest and the most beautiful of all whitenesses?

Protarchus
Quite right.

Socrates
Then we shall be perfectly right in saying that a little pure white is whiter and more beautiful and truer than a great deal of mixed white.

Protarchus
Perfectly right.

Socrates
Well then, we shall have no need of many such examples in our discussion of pleasure; we see well enough from this one that any pleasure,

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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