Jowett
What other way can there be of knowing them, except the true and natural way, through their AFFINITIES, when they are akin to each other, and through themselves ? CRATYLUS
According to their respective AFFINITIES to either class of actions they distribute praise and blame — praise to the actions which are akin to their own, blame to those of the opposite party — and out of this many quarrels and occasions of quarrel arise among them. STATESMAN
dried up and moistened by external things, and experiences these and the like affections from both kinds of motions, the result is that the body if given up to motion when in a state of quiescence is overmastered and perishes ; but if any one, in imitation of that which we call the foster-mother and nurse of the universe, will not allow the body ever to be inactive, but is always producing motions and agitations through its whole extent, which form the natural defence against other motions both internal and external, and by moderate exercise reduces to order according to their AFFINITIES the particles and affections which are wandering about the body, as we have already said when speaking of the universe, he will not allow enemy placed by the side of enemy to stir up wars and disorders in the body, but he will place friend by the side of friend, so as to create health. TIMAEUS
The elements are severally moved by chance and some inherent force according to certain AFFINITIES among them — of hot with cold, or of dry with moist, or of soft with hard, and according to all the other accidental admixtures of opposites which have been formed by necessity. LAWS X
Now, when all these studies reach the point of intercommunion and connection with one another, and come to be considered in their mutual AFFINITIES, then, I think, but not till then, will the pursuit of them have a value for our objects ; otherwise there is no profit in them. THE REPUBLIC VII
AFFINITY
Because you seem not to be aware that any one who has an intellectual AFFINITY to Socrates and enters into conversation with him is liable to be drawn into an argument ; and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually carried round and round by him, until at last he finds that he has to give an account both of his present and past life ; and when he is once entangled, Socrates will not let him go until he has completely and thoroughly sifted him. LACHES
Then, shall we say that the king has a greater AFFINITY to knowledge than to manual arts and to practical life in general ? STATESMAN
Whereas the right way is, if a man has first seen the unity of things, to go on with the enquiry and not desist until he has found all the differences contained in it which form distinct classes ; nor again should he be able to rest contented with the manifold diversities which are seen in a multitude of things until he has comprehended all of them that have any AFFINITY within the bounds of one similarity and embraced them within the reality of a single kind. STATESMAN
When the light of day surrounds the stream of vision, then like falls upon like, and they coalesce, and one body is formed by natural AFFINITY in the line of vision, wherever the light that falls from within meets with an external object. TIMAEUS
In consequence of these habits of theirs they had their front-legs and their heads resting upon the earth to which they were drawn by natural AFFINITY ; and the crowns of their heads were elongated and of all sorts of shapes, into which the courses of the soul were crushed by reason of disuse. TIMAEUS
Art sprang up afterwards and out of these, mortal and of mortal birth, and produced in play certain images and very partial imitations of the truth, having an AFFINITY to one another, such as music and painting create and their companion arts. LAWS X
And now we are to address him who, believing that there are Gods, believes also that they take no heed of human affairs : To him we say — O thou best of men, in believing that there are Gods you are led by some AFFINITY to them, which attracts you towards your kindred and makes you honour and believe in them. LAWS X
But let me ask you another question : Has excess of pleasure any AFFINITY to temperance ? THE REPUBLIC III
Or any AFFINITY to virtue in general ? THE REPUBLIC III
Any AFFINITY to wantonness and intemperance ? THE REPUBLIC III
Guthrie
The purified soul, therefore, becomes a form, a reason, an incorporeal and intellectual essence; she belongs entirely to the divinity, in whom resides the source of the beautiful, and of all the qualities which have AFFINITY with it. Tratado 1, 6
As wisdom and real virtue are divine things, they could not dwell in a vile and mortal entity; the existence that receives them is necessarily divine, since it participates in divine things by their mutual AFFINITY and community. Tratado 2, 10
Though on one hand her condition be divine, on the other she is located on the limits of the intelligible world, because of her AFFINITY for sense-nature. Tratado 6, 7
Since in their system intelligence is non-essence, how could any credibility attach to that intelligence when it speaks of things superior to it, and with which it possesses no AFFINITY? Tratado 42, 28
Not so is it with essence; we say, “being one,” conceiving of “being” (“essence”) and one, as if forming a single whole, and in positing essence as one, we emphasize its narrow AFFINITY with the Good. Tratado 43, 11
The real cause of love is fourfold: the desire of beauty; our soul’s innate notion of beauty; our soul’s AFFINITY with beauty, and our soul’s instinctive sentiment of this AFFINITY. ( Tratado 50, 1
Now, as soon as one is attracted by an object, because one is united to it by a secret AFFINITY, he experiences for the images of this object a sentiment of sympathy. Tratado 50, 1
They determine to procreate and produce beauty according to nature; procreating because their object is perpetuity; and procreating beautifully because they possess AFFINITY with it. Tratado 50, 1
In fact, perpetuity does bear AFFINITY to beauty; perpetual nature is beauty itself; and such also are all its derivatives. Tratado 50, 1