Dialogue

 1 Phileb|         pleasure or wisdom is the chief good, or some nature higher
 2 Phileb|         one and many has lost its chief interest and perplexity.
 3 Phileb|       rather a law of nature. The chief difference between subjective
 4 Phileb|         Book of the Republic. The chief difference is, that the
 5 Phileb|         and wisdom to rank as the chief good has been already carried
 6 Phileb|          in which there are three chief elements—truth, symmetry,
 7 Phileb|      thousand times nearer to the chief good than pleasure. Pleasure
 8 Phileb|      arguing that pleasure is the chief good, but that we should
 9 Phileb| acknowledge that ‘pleasure is the chief good.’ Either they have
10 Phileb|        other notions, such as the chief good of Plato, which may
11 Phileb|   enjoyment and the like were the chief good, you answered—No, not
12 Phileb|          if either of them is the chief good, it cannot be supposed
13 Phileb|           it cannot really be the chief good.~PROTARCHUS: Impossible.~
14 Phileb|           moreover that it is the chief good of all, and that the