Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 133c

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[133c]

Socrates
And can we find any part of the soul that we can call more divine than this, which is the seat of knowledge and thought?

Alcibiades
We cannot.

Socrates
Then this part of her resembles God, and whoever looks at this, and comes to know all that is divine, will gain thereby the best knowledge of himself.

Alcibiades
Apparently.

Socrates
And self-knowledge we admitted to be temperance.¹

Alcibiades
To be sure.

Socrates
So if we have no knowledge of ourselves and no temperance, shall we be able to know our own belongings, good or evil?

Alcibiades
How can that be, Socrates?

1 Above, Plat. Alc. 1.131b.

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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