Plato, Philebus, section 37c

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[37c] and thereby it becomes not merely opinion, but opinion of a certain quality in each instance?

Protarchus
Yes.

Socrates
And furthermore, we must reach an agreement on the question whether, even if some things have qualities, pleasure and pain are not merely what they are, without qualities or attributes.

Protarchus
Evidently we must.

Socrates
But it is easy enough to see that they have qualities. For we said a long time ago that both pains and pleasures

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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