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S . * This is not the life of a dead man or a fticne , but it it the life of a funnel /* , S . ' You say , it is happiness to be hungry , and , being hungry * U > , eaV C * Yes . ' & * To be thirsty , and , being thirsty , to diink / C- * Ye » ,
and to have all other appetites , and to be able to satisfy them / # , * 1 commend you , for you go on as you have b « gun « Do not be ashamed * Neither ought I » apparently , to be shamefaced * And fast tell ma , whether to itch constantly , and having the means of scratching , to pass our whole lives in that operation , would be to life happily ? C , * Hdw unfair you are , and how fond of appealing to the vulgar / 8 . * And
therefore did I embarrass Polua and Gorgias , and make them aahatned ; but be not you ashamed , who are a bold man , but answer me / C . ' I answer then , that the scratcher would live agreeably / 5 . ' But if agreeably , then happily / C . ' Certainly / 8 . * See what you will have to answer , if you are pressed with all the questions which would naturally follow these . Is not the life of a catamite vile , and miserable ? Or will
you venture to say , that he too is happy , if all his wants are plentifully supplied V C . ' Are you not ashamed to lead the argument to such things V 5 . * Is it I who lead it thither , or you , who affirm sweepingly that all who enjoy themselves , no matter how , are happy ; and make no distinction between good pleasures and bad ones ? Tell me again , whether Pleasant and Good are the same , or whether there is any thing pleasant which is not good V C . * That my discourse may not be inconsistent with itself if I say they are different , I will say that they are the 4
same . ' S . You destroy the whole argument , and are no longer fitted for inquiring into truth , if you speak differently from what you think *' C . ' It is what you yourself do , ' S . * If I do so , I do wrong , and ao do you . But consider whether it be not true , that Good is not synonymous with Enjoyment , of whatever kind ; for if this were so , the shameful cansequences already indicated would follow , and many other * , besides . ' C . ' In your opinion . ' S , ' Do you in reality adhere to this opinion ?' C . I do . ' & ' Shall we argue upon the supposition of your being in earnestV C . ' Undoubtedly /
S . * Tell me then . There is such a thing as knowledge V C . ' Yea . ' S . ' You spoke just now of courage accompanied with knowledges ' C . * I did / S . ' Courage , then , is something different from knowledge *' C . ' Very different / < SL ' Are pleasure and knowledge tke sarae tlu » fT , or different ? ' C * Very different , most wise man . ' & * And courage 4 1 4
» different from pleasure V C . Yes . & > Ychi , then , say that Pieasant and Good are the same thing , hot that knowledge and courage « e different from each other , and different from good . And I , do I admit this , or not V C . * You do not * & * Nor do you * kaer , wka you interpret yourself rightly . 4
( UU not to be m a good state , the contrary of bttbg in a bad * state ?* c It is / 5 . ' Then if they are contrary stales , they * Like kafea ** 4 disease , cannot exist together , neither can . tbey both together cease to e&i&t » C * How t SL * When a raan ' & eye * are diaett 4 e < l »* iM 7 * e not in health V C . ' Now * & * And warn a * gefc » ** l U Ike ^ JKaae , he does not at the same tune get titl of health , for Uw * wimM he ttauca / C . - Exceedingly U * ' & He teeekxe * la * two tiu » e * ay * Properly of a v « mW an unknown bird , g / a Knuukably tayul dig < tflaun »
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Plato 9 Dialogue * ; the Gorgias , 809
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 809, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/63/
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