Frase no Brasão do Steiner (e de Outros Tantos)

Indeed, Nicias, it is hard to say about any study at all that one must not learn it, for it seems good to know all things.

ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι μέν, ὦ Νικία, χαλεπὸν λέγειν περὶ ὁτουοῦν μαθήματος ὡς οὐ χρὴ μανθάνειν: πάντα γὰρ ἐπίστασθαι ἀγαθὸν δοκεῖ εἶναι.

Platão, Laques 182d9

in Thomas L. Pangle (ed.), The Roots of Political Philosophy - Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues.

Cornell University Press, Ithaca/Londres: 1987. (trad. deste diálogo: James H. Nichols Jr.)

imagem: Ung man läsande vid vaxljus/

Young Man Reading by Candlelight, de Matthias Stom