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“And so,” I said, “when a man's delight
comes to an end, the cessation of pleasure will be painful.”
“It may be so,” he said. “What, then,we just
now described as the intermediate state between the two—this
quietude—will sometimes be both pain and pleasure.”
“It seems so” “Is it really possible for that
which is neither to become both1?” “I think not.” “And
further, both pleasure and pain arising in the soul are a kind of
motion,2 are they not?”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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