The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of wha…

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes. ✨ Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan, p.251
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