Letters
Plato (428–347 BC)
Plato's Letters in the Greek text edited by John Burnet, with R. G. Bury's English translation.
Caput I: Letter 1
Section 309
Section 310
Caput II: Letter 2
Section 310
Section 311
Section 312
Section 313
Section 314
Section 315
Caput III: Letter 3
Section 315
Section 316
Section 317
Section 318
Section 319
Caput IV: Letter 4
Section 320
Section 321
Caput V: Letter 5
Section 321
Section 322
Caput VI: Letter 6
Section 322
Section 323
Caput VII: Letter 7
Section 323
Section 324
Section 325
Section 326
Section 327
Section 328
Section 329
Section 330
Section 331
Section 332
Section 333
Section 334
Section 335
Section 336
Section 337
Section 338
Section 339
Section 340
Section 341
Section 342
Section 343
Section 344
Section 345
Section 346
Section 347
Section 348
Section 349
Section 350
Section 351
Section 352
Caput VIII: Letter 8
Section 352
Section 353
Section 354
Section 355
Section 356
Section 357
Caput IX: Letter 9
Section 357
Section 358
Caput X: Letter 10
Section 358
Plato to Aristodorus wishes well-doing. I hear that you now are and always have been one of Dion’s most intimate companions, since of all who pursue philosophy you exhibit the most philosophic disposition; for steadfastness, trustiness, and sincerity—these I affirm to be the genuine philosophy, but as to all other forms of science and cleverness which tend in other directions, I shall, I believe, be giving them their right names if I dub them parlor-tricks. So farewell, and continue in the same disposition in which you are continuing now.