Timaeus

by Plato · c. 360 BCE

Benjamin Jowett's translation, 1871. 1 part, about 32,441 words, 2 hours of reading. Source edition.

Timaeus4 passages · 32,441 words

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What is that which always is and has no becoming, and what is that which becomes and never is?
27d · Read it in Timaeus
The father and maker of all this universe is past finding out; and even if we found him, to tell of him to all men would be impossible.
28c · Read it in Timaeus
He was good, and in him that is good no envy ever arises concerning anything; and being free from envy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as possible.
29e · Read it in Timaeus
He made a moving image of eternity, and when he set the heavens in order he made of eternity, which abides in unity, an everlasting image moving according to number, which we call time.
37d · Read it in Timaeus

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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