Plato, Philebus, section 38a

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[38a] we call the opinion false; but nobody would ever call the actual pleasure false.

Socrates
You are an eager advocate of the case of pleasure just now, Protarchus.

Protarchus
Oh no, I merely say what I hear.

Socrates
Is there no difference, my friend, between the pleasure which is connected with right opinion and knowledge and that which often comes to each of us with falsehood and ignorance?

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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