Full Idea
By far the greatest and fairest branch of wisdom is that which is concerned with the due ordering of states and families, whose name is moderation and justice.
Gist of Idea
The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families
Source
Plato (The Symposium [c.373 BCE], 209a)
Book Reference
Plato: 'The Symposium', ed/tr. Hamilton,W [Penguin 1951], p.90
A Reaction
['Justice' is probably 'dikaiosune'] It is hard to disagree with this, and it relegates ivory tower philosophical contemplation to second place, unlike the late books of Aristotle's Ethics.