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that the kinds concerned with the service of the body partake less of
truth and reality than those that serve the soul?” “Much
less.” “And do you not think that the same holds of the
body itself in comparison with the soul?” “I
do.” “Then is not that which is fulfilled of what more
truly is, and which itself more truly is, more truly filled and satisfied
than that which being itself less real is filled with more unreal
things?” “Of course.” “If, then, to
be filled with what befits nature is pleasure, then that which is more
really filled with real things
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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