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Quotation from Philebus by Plato
“pleasure is not the first of possessions, nor yet the second, but that in measure, and the mean, and the suitable, and the like, the eternal nature has been found”
Philebus, Stephanus 66a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The opening of the final ranking of goods, which places measure first and pleasure fifth.
Citation: "pleasure is not the first of possessions, nor yet the second, but that in measure, and the mean, and the suitable, and the like, the eternal nature has been found" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 66a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q8)
