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and what power it possesses.Protarchus
Certainly.Socrates
And likewise the class of pleasure was made clear some time ago.Protarchus
Yes, it was.Socrates
Let us, then, remember concerning both of them that mind was akin to cause and belonged more or less to that class, and that pleasure was itself infinite and belonged to the class which, in and by itself, has not and never will have either beginning or middle or end.
Certainly.Socrates
And likewise the class of pleasure was made clear some time ago.Protarchus
Yes, it was.Socrates
Let us, then, remember concerning both of them that mind was akin to cause and belonged more or less to that class, and that pleasure was itself infinite and belonged to the class which, in and by itself, has not and never will have either beginning or middle or end.