The Republic · Rep. 402e

How can that be? he replied; pleasure deprives a man of the use of his faculties quite as much as pain.

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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