Plato, Philebus, section 49d

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[49d]

Socrates
Is envy a kind of unrighteous pain and also a pleasure?

Protarchus
Undoubtedly.

Socrates
But it is neither wrong nor envious to rejoice in the misfortunes of our enemies, is it?

Protarchus
No, of course not.

Socrates
But when people sometimes see the misfortunes of their friends and rejoice instead of grieving, is not that wrong?

Protarchus
Of course it is.

Socrates
And we said that ignorance was an evil to every one, did we not?

Protarchus
True.

Socrates
Then the false conceits of our friends concerning their wisdom, their beauty,

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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