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Quotation from Philebus by Plato
“Memory and perception meet, and they and their attendant feelings seem to almost to write down words in the soul”
Philebus, Stephanus 39a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates compares the soul to a book in which a scribe writes opinions, preparing his account of false pleasures. The doubled 'to' is in Jowett's text.
Citation: "Memory and perception meet, and they and their attendant feelings seem to almost to write down words in the soul" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 39a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q4)
