Plato, Philebus, section 27d

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[27d]

Socrates
Well then; we decided that the mixed life of pleasure and wisdom was the victor, did we not?

Protarchus
Yes.

Socrates
And do we not see what kind of life this is, and to what class it belongs?

Protarchus
Of course we do.

Socrates
We shall say that it belongs to the third class; for that class is not formed by mixture of any two things, but of all the things which belong to the infinite, bound by the finite; and therefore this victorious life would rightly be considered a part of this class.

Protarchus
Quite rightly.

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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