Plato, Gorgias, section 496d

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[496d]

Socrates
I see: but at all events hunger itself is painful, is it not?

Callicles
I agree.

Socrates
And so too with thirst?

Callicles
Quite so.

Socrates
Then am I to ask you any further questions, or do you admit that all want and desire is painful?

Callicles
I admit it; no, do not question me further.

Socrates
Very good: but drinking when one is thirsty you surely say is pleasant?

Callicles
I do.

Socrates
Now, in this phrase of yours the words “when one is thirsty,” I take it, stand for “when one is in pain”?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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