Plato, Philebus, section 35e

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[35e]

Protarchus
Of what sort of life are you speaking, and in what affections does it exist?

Socrates
In the affections of fulness and emptiness and all which pertain to the preservation and destruction of living beings, and I am thinking that if we fall into one of these we feel pain, which is followed by joy when we change to the other.

Protarchus
That is true.

Socrates
And what if a man is between the two?

Protarchus
How between them?

Socrates
Because of his condition, he is suffering, but he remembers the pleasures the coming of which would bring him an end of his pain; as yet, however, he does not possess them. Well then, shall we say that he is

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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