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Quotation from Gorgias by Plato
“The life which you are now depicting is not that of a dead man, or of a stone, but of a cormorant”
Gorgias, 494b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates' reply to Callicles' praise of ever-renewed appetite, following the image of the leaky casks.
Citation: "The life which you are now depicting is not that of a dead man, or of a stone, but of a cormorant" — Plato, Gorgias, 494b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-gorgias-q7)
