The Republic · Rep. 437e

Yes, he said; the simple desire is, as you say, in every case of the simple object, and the qualified desire of the qualified object.

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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