Plato, Philebus, section 52d

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[52d] and the others we shall assign to the class of the limited.

Protarchus
Quite right, Socrates.

Socrates
There is still another question about them to be considered.

Protarchus
What is it?

Socrates
What kind of thing is most closely related to truth? The pure and unadulterated, or the violent, the widespread, the great, and the sufficient?

Protarchus
What is your object, Socrates, in asking that question?

Socrates
My object, Protarchus, is to leave no gap in my test of pleasure

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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