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Quotation from Philebus by Plato
“if a person would wish to see the greatest pleasures he ought to go and look, not at health, but at disease”
Philebus, Stephanus 45b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates locates the most intense pleasures in sickness and excess, not to praise them but to study pleasure at its largest magnitude.
Citation: "if a person would wish to see the greatest pleasures he ought to go and look, not at health, but at disease" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 45b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q5)
