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said I, “at
pleasures which do not follow on pain, so that you may not haply suppose for
the present that it is the nature of pleasure to be a cessation from pain
and pain from pleasure.” “Where shall I look,”
he said, “and what pleasures do you mean?”
“There are many others,” I said, “and
especially, if you please to note them, the pleasures connected with
smell.1 For these with no antecedent
pain2
suddenly attain an indescribable intensity, and their cessation leaves no
pain after them.” “Most true,” he said.
“Let us not believe, then,
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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