Plato, Philebus, section 48b

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[48b]

Socrates
Indeed it is by no means easy, Protarchus, to understand such a condition under those circumstances.

Protarchus
No at least I do not find it so.

Socrates
Well, then, let us take this under consideration, all the more because of its obscurity; then we can more readily understand the mixture of pain and pleasure in other cases.

Protarchus
Please go on.

Socrates
Would you say that envy, which was mentioned just now, was a pain of the soul, or not?

Protarchus
I say it is.

Socrates
But certainly we see the envious man rejoicing in the misfortunes of his neighbors.

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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