Plato, Philebus, section 47e

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[47e]

Socrates
Do you not regard anger, fear, yearning, mourning, love, jealousy, envy, and the like as pains of the soul and the soul only?

Protarchus
I do.

Socrates
And shall we not find them full of ineffable pleasures? Or must I remind you of the anger?

“Which stirs a man, though very wise, to wrath,
And sweeter is than honey from the comb,
”
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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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