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Quotation from Philebus by Plato

“your life would be the life, not of a man, but of an oyster or 'pulmo marinus”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Philebus, Stephanus 21c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Socrates shows Protarchus that pleasure without mind, memory or calculation would not be a human life.

Citation: "your life would be the life, not of a man, but of an oyster or 'pulmo marinus" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 21c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q2)

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