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[497a]

Socrates
But to enjoy oneself when feeling pain you have admitted to be possible.

Callicles
Apparently.

Socrates
Hence enjoyment is not faring well, nor is feeling pain faring ill, so that the pleasant is found to be different from the good.

Callicles
I cannot follow these subtleties of yours, Socrates.

Socrates
You can, but you play the innocent, Callicles. Just go on a little further,


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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