Plato, Philebus, section 44c

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[44c]

Socrates
They say that what Philebus and his school call pleasures are all merely refuges from pain.

Protarchus
Do you recommend that we adopt their view, Socrates?

Socrates
No, but that we make use of them as seers who divine the truth, not by acquired skill, but by some innate and not ignoble repugnance which makes them hate the power of pleasure and think it so utterly unsound that its very attractiveness is mere trickery, not pleasure.

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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Commentary references to this page (2):
- R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato, 183B
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 9.583B
Cross-references to this page (1):
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (5):
- LSJ, ἀποφυ^γή
- LSJ, δυσχέρ-εια
- LSJ, ἐπαγωγ-ός
- LSJ, γοήτ-ευμα
- LSJ, μι_σ-έω