Plato, Philebus, section 59d

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[59d]

Socrates
Are not mind, then, and wisdom the names which we should honor most?

Protarchus
Yes.

Socrates
Then these names are applied most accurately and correctly to cases of contemplation of true being.

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
And these are precisely the names which I brought forward in the first place as parties to our suit.

Protarchus
Yes, of course they are, Socrates.

Socrates
Very well. As to the mixture of wisdom and 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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