Dialogue

 1 Phileb|      diminution of artistic skill, a want of character in the persons,
 2 Phileb|              or rather, perhaps, the want of plan renders the progress
 3 Phileb|          their respective claims, we want to know the number and kinds
 4 Phileb|           pain; in his body there is want which is a cause of pain,
 5 Phileb|              of virtue. But still we want truth? That is now added;
 6 Phileb|              God.’ What more does he want?~But whence comes this common
 7 Phileb|        contemporaries by egotism and want of taste; and this generation
 8 Phileb|         points, its ambiguities, its want of exactness while assuming
 9 Phileb|             it cannot be supposed to want anything, but if either
10 Phileb|            but if either is shown to want anything, then it cannot
11 Phileb|               Reflect; would you not want wisdom and intelligence
12 Phileb|            would you not at any rate want sight?~PROTARCHUS: Why should
13 Phileb|            life of mind?~SOCRATES: I want to know whether any one
14 Phileb|          think, at present; but if I want a fifth at some future time
15 Phileb|        PROTARCHUS: What?~SOCRATES: I want to know whether such things
16 Phileb|              What is it?~SOCRATES: I want to attain the plainest possible
17 Phileb|            clearly, and the seer may want to determine what it is
18 Phileb|      instances.~SOCRATES: Then if we want to see the true nature of
19 Phileb|              that they have a deeper want and greater pleasure in
20 Phileb|            the satisfaction of their want?~PROTARCHUS: That is obvious
21 Phileb|             magnitude of pleasure; I want to know where pleasures
22 Phileb|          been unnecessary. And now I want to know whether I may depart;
23 Phileb|           general those of which the want is painless and unconscious,
24 Phileb| self-existent, and the other ever in want of something.~PROTARCHUS:
25 Phileb|          generation?~PROTARCHUS: You want to know whether that which
26 Phileb|             lives, or shall we still want some elements of another
27 Phileb|         others; there would be great want of sense in any one who
28 Phileb|            good—there would be great want of sense in his allowing
29 Phileb|          SOCRATES: He knows that any want of measure and symmetry