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Quotation from Philebus by Plato

“a little pure white is whiter and fairer and truer than a great deal that is mixed”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Philebus, Stephanus 53b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

The example of whiteness grounds Socrates' preference for small pure pleasures over large mixed ones.

Citation: "a little pure white is whiter and fairer and truer than a great deal that is mixed" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 53b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q6)

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