Christopher Dunne’s Reviews > Plato: Lysis. Symposium. Gorgias. (Loeb Classical Library No. 166) by Plato (1925) Hardcover > Status Update

While the Gorgias as a whole is life-changing, arguing the virtues of temperance, justice and fairness as elements of human nature, one idea has caught my attention. At 493a-494a Socrates compares our lives with jars. The temperate person fills his jars and is content. The licentious person's jars are full of holes, with every act if meanness he's compelled to fill the jar again. His life is "extreme distress".