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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: a proverb.
Which of symmetry? Wisdom again; for nothing is more immoderate than
pleasure.
Which of beauty? Once more, wisdom; for pleasure is often unseemly, and
the greatest pleasures are put out of sight.
Not pleasure, then, ranks first in the scale of good, but measure, and
eternal harmony.
Second comes the symmetrical and beautiful and perfect.
Third, mind and wisdom.
Fourth, sciences and arts and true opinions.
Fifth, painless pleasures.
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