Plato, Philebus, section 41c

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[41c] that when desires, as they are called, exist in us, the soul is apart from the body and separate from it in feelings.

Protarchus
I remember; that was said.

Socrates
And was not the soul that which desired the opposites of the conditions of the body and the body that which caused pleasure or pain because of feeling?

Protarchus
Yes, that was the case.

Socrates
Then draw the conclusion as to what takes place in these circumstances.

Protarchus
Go on.

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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