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“I
understand,” I said, “that you have or have had
favorites of this sort and I grant your distinction. But tell me
this—can there be any communion between soberness and extravagant
pleasure1?” “How could there be,” he
said, “since such pleasure puts a man beside himself
1 Extravagant pleasure is akin to madness. Cf. Philebus 47 A-C, Phaedo 83 C-D.
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