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Dialogue
1 Phileb| feelings, let me ask whether envy is painful. ‘Yes.’ And yet 2 Phileb| is a pleasure, and yet we envy him, which is a pain? These 3 Phileb| difficulty in understanding that envy is a mixed feeling, which 4 Phileb| shown how sorrow, anger, envy are feelings of a mixed 5 Phileb| sorrow, love, emulation, envy, and the like, as pains 6 Phileb| SOCRATES: I have just mentioned envy; would you not call that 7 Phileb| Protarchus, if we would see in envy of the childish sort a singular 8 Phileb| us examine the nature of envy.~PROTARCHUS: Proceed.~SOCRATES: 9 Phileb| Proceed.~SOCRATES: Is not envy an unrighteous pleasure, 10 Phileb| pleasure.~SOCRATES: And was not envy the source of this pleasure 11 Phileb| pleasure, in mingling with envy, mingles with pain, for 12 Phileb| mingles with pain, for envy has been acknowledged by 13 Phileb| laughter is pleasant; and so we envy and laugh at the same instant.~ 14 Phileb| fear, love, emulation, envy, and similar emotions, as 15 Phileb| reference only to sorrow and envy and anger.~PROTARCHUS: I