If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
SocratesPhilebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure
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