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Full Idea
Callicles: If a person has the means to live a life of sensual, self-indulgent freedom, there's no better or happier state of existence.
Clarification
'Happiness' is the Greek word 'eudaimonia', also sometimes translated as 'flourishing'
Gist of Idea
Is the happiest state one of sensual, self-indulgent freedom?
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.378 BCE], 492c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.79