Plato, Philebus, section 33a

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[33a] besides those of feeling pleasure and pain?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
Well then, do your best to bear it in mind; for remembering or forgetting it will make a great difference in our judgement of pleasure. And I should like, if you do not object, to speak briefly about it.

Protarchus
Pray do so.

Socrates
You know that there is nothing to hinder a man from living the life of wisdom in this manner.

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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