Are those who need nothing happy?

492d492eSocratesThere is nothing ignoble, Callicles, in the way you press on with the argument, speaking frankly; for you are saying clearly now what the others think but are unwilling to say. So I beg you not to slacken in any way, so that it may truly become plain how one should live. And tell me: you say the desires are not to be restrained, if a man is to be what he should be, but that he should let them be as great as possible and provide a filling for them from some source or other, and that this is virtue?

CalliclesI do say so.

SocratesThen it is not rightly said that those who need nothing are happy.

CalliclesNo, for that way stones and corpses would be the happiest of all.