Plato, Philebus, section 31e

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[31e]

Protarchus
I think you are right, Socrates; but let us try to be more explicit.

Socrates
It is easiest to understand common and obvious examples, is it not?

Protarchus
What examples?

Socrates
Is hunger a kind of breaking up and a pain?

Protarchus
Yes.

Socrates
And eating, which is a filling up again, is a pleasure?

Protarchus
Yes.

Socrates
Thirst again is a destruction and a pain, but the filling with moisture

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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