Full Idea
In a fool's mind desire is a leaky jar, …which is an analogy for the mind's insatiability, showing we should prefer an orderly life, in which one is content with whatever is to hand, to a self-indulgent life of insatiable desire.
Gist of Idea
In a fool's mind desire is like a leaky jar, insatiable in its desires, and order and contentment are better
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.387 BCE], 493b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.80
A Reaction
This points to an interesting paradox, that pleasure requires the misery of desire. And yet absence of desire is like death. An Aristotelian mean, of living according to nature, seems the escape route.