Dialogue

 1 Phileb|         derived from a previous state of existence, is a note
 2 Phileb|         imagine ‘Being’ as in a state of change or division. To
 3 Phileb| preserves them in their natural state, and brings them within
 4 Phileb|      mind cannot be always in a state of intellectual tension,
 5 Phileb|      soon passes into a neutral state of unconsciousness and indifference.
 6 Phileb|        less, and is always in a state of comparison. All words
 7 Phileb|      may there not be a neutral state, in which there is neither
 8 Phileb|       the possibility of such a state, there seems to be no reason
 9 Phileb|       not exist in this neutral state, which is, moreover, the
10 Phileb|         which is, moreover, the state of the gods, who cannot,
11 Phileb|   opposite of his actual bodily state, and is therefore not in
12 Phileb|    there may be an intermediate state, in which a person is balanced
13 Phileb|      who will not admit a third state. Their instinctive dislike
14 Phileb|        of a transition from one state of the body to another,
15 Phileb|        of the law. Of some such state or process each individual
16 Phileb|         and justice in a social state; they have been deepened
17 Phileb| morality, we may now proceed to state the theory of Utility, not
18 Phileb|     that we are in a lamentable state of uncertainty about morals.
19 Phileb|      the objective reality of a state which receives our moral
20 Phileb|      Granting that in a perfect state of the world my own happiness
21 Phileb|      coincide, in the imperfect state they often diverge, and
22 Phileb|     from the necessities of the state and of society. According
23 Phileb|        a view the present mixed state of the world, not wholly
24 Phileb|        which in the fragmentary state of our knowledge it is impossible
25 Phileb|        now try to indicate some state and disposition of the soul,
26 Phileb|      say that wisdom, is such a state?~PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES:
27 Phileb|        what if there be a third state, which is better than either?
28 Phileb|    creates in every one of us a state of infinite ignorance; and
29 Phileb|      elements to their original state is pleasure. And would not
30 Phileb|       Then here we have a third state, over and above that of
31 Phileb|     forget that there is such a state; it will make a great difference
32 Phileb|        not live in this neutral state.~PROTARCHUS: You mean that
33 Phileb|     when you are describing the state in which she is unaffected
34 Phileb|       the reverse of his bodily state.~PROTARCHUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
35 Phileb|        a memory of the opposite state.~PROTARCHUS: True.~SOCRATES:
36 Phileb|         say of the intermediate state?~PROTARCHUS: What do you
37 Phileb|        he is in an intermediate state?~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
38 Phileb|      the opposite of the bodily state, while the body was the
39 Phileb|      restoration of the natural state is pleasure?~PROTARCHUS:
40 Phileb|        two only—the one being a state of pain, which is an evil,
41 Phileb|        be found in some vicious state of soul and body, and not
42 Phileb|     body, and not in a virtuous state.~PROTARCHUS: Certainly.~
43 Phileb|        which in their composite state are called sometimes pleasures
44 Phileb|         friends who are in this state of mind, when harmless to
45 Phileb|      principal cause why such a state is universally beloved by