Plato, Philebus, section 33b

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Protarchus
You mean without feeling pleasure or pain?

Socrates
Yes, for it was said, you know, in our comparison of the lives that he who chose the life of mind and wisdom was to have no feeling of pleasure, great or small.

Protarchus
Yes, surely, that was said.

Socrates
Such a man, then, would have such a life; and perhaps it is not unreasonable, if that is the most divine of lives.

Protarchus
Certainly it is not likely that gods feel either joy or its opposite.

Socrates
No, it is very unlikely; for either is unseemly for them. But let us reserve the discussion of that point

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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