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but we would
go to visit you. But as it is you should not space too widely your visits
here. For I would have you know that, for my part, as the satisfactions of
the body decay,1 in the same measure my desire for the
pleasures of good talk and my delight in them increase. Don't refuse then,
but be yourself a companion to these lads and make our house your resort and
regard us as your very good friends and intimates.”
“Why, yes, Cephalus,” said I, “and I enjoy
talking with the very aged.
1 Plato characteristically contrasts the transitory pleasures of the body with the enduring joys of the mind. Phaedrus 258 E. Anaximenes imitates and expands the passage, Stobaeus, 117. 5. Pleasures are not strictly speaking “of” the body, but “in” or “relating to” it. See my Unity of Plato's Thought, p. 45.
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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