Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 126c

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[126c]

Alcibiades
To my mind, Socrates, friendship with one another will be there, while hatred and faction will be absent.

Socrates
Now, by friendship do you mean agreement or disagreement?

Alcibiades
Agreement.

Socrates
And what art is it that causes states to agree about numbers?

Alcibiades
Arithmetic.

Socrates
And what of individuals? Is it not the same art?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
And it makes each single person agree with himself?

Alcibiades
Yes.

Socrates
And what art makes each of us agree with himself

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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