Plato, Philebus, section 42a

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[42a] obscures their real sizes and causes us to have false opinions; and does not this same thing happen in the case of pains and pleasures?

Protarchus
Yes, Socrates, even much more than in the case of sight.

Socrates
Then our present conclusion is the opposite of what we said a little while ago.

Protarchus
To what do you refer?

Socrates
A while ago these opinions, being false or true, imbued the pains and pleasures with their own condition of truth or falsehood.

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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