Plato, Philebus, section 46b

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[46b]

Socrates
I did not introduce this question on PhilebusÕ account; but unless we consider these pleasures and those that follow in their train, Protarchus, we can probably never settle the point at issue.

Protarchus
Then we must attack this family of pleasures.

Socrates
You mean those which are mixed?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
Some mixtures are concerned with the body and are in the body only, and some belong only to the soul and are in the soul;

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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