Plato, Philebus, section 20d

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[20d] or imperfect?

Protarchus
The most perfect of all things, surely, Socrates.

Socrates
Well, and is the good sufficient?

Protarchus
Of course; so that it surpasses all other things in sufficiency.

Socrates
And nothing, I should say, is more certain about it than that every intelligent being pursues it, desires it, wishes to catch and get possession of it, and has no interest in anything in which the good is not included.

Protarchus
There is no denying that.

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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