Plato, Theaetetus, section 159c

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[159c] we enumerated just now?

Theaetetus
Yes.

Socrates
Then each of those elements which by the law of their nature act upon something else, will, when it gets hold of Socrates in health, find me one object to act upon, and when it gets hold of me in illness, another?

Theaetetus
How can it help it?

Socrates
And so, in the two cases, that active element and I, who am the passive element, shall each produce a different object?

Theaetetus
Of course.

Socrates
So, then, when I am in health and drink wine, it seems pleasant and sweet to me?

Theaetetus
Yes.

Socrates
The reason is, in fact, that according to the principles we accepted a while ago,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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