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Quotation from Philebus by Plato
“one, which is pleasure, may be likened to a fountain of honey; the other, wisdom, a sober draught in which no wine mingles, is of water unpleasant but healthful”
Philebus, Stephanus 61c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates and Protarchus become cup-bearers mixing the good life from the two fountains.
Citation: "one, which is pleasure, may be likened to a fountain of honey; the other, wisdom, a sober draught in which no wine mingles, is of water unpleasant but healthful" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 61c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q7)
