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power of calculating your wants and the like.Protarchus
Why should I? If I have enjoyment, I have everything.Socrates
Then living thus you would enjoy the greatest pleasures all your life?Protarchus
Yes; why not?Socrates
But if you did not possess mind or memory or knowledge or true opinion, in the first place, you would not know whether you were enjoying your pleasures or not. That must be true, since you are utterly devoid of intellect, must it not?Protarchus
Yes, it must.
Why should I? If I have enjoyment, I have everything.Socrates
Then living thus you would enjoy the greatest pleasures all your life?Protarchus
Yes; why not?Socrates
But if you did not possess mind or memory or knowledge or true opinion, in the first place, you would not know whether you were enjoying your pleasures or not. That must be true, since you are utterly devoid of intellect, must it not?Protarchus
Yes, it must.