Dialogue

 1 Repub|          the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.
 2 Repub|         and lie with anyone at his pleasure, or kill or release from
 3 Repub|            question: Has excess of pleasure any affinity to temperance? ~
 4 Repub|           can that be? he replied; pleasure deprives a man of the use
 5 Repub|        there any greater or keener pleasure than that of sensual love? ~
 6 Repub|            Then mad or intemperate pleasure must never be allowed to
 7 Repub|            the softer influence of pleasure, or the sterner influence
 8 Repub|           would, take a journey of pleasure; they have no money to spend
 9 Repub| circumstances" to intimate that in pleasure or in pain, or under the
10 Repub|            whose spirit retains in pleasure and in pain the commands
11 Repub|            pain at suffering or of pleasure at the alleviation of suffering. ~
12 Repub|           have a common feeling of pleasure and pain? ~Yes, far more
13 Repub|          members, when affected by pleasure or pain? ~That we acknowledged,
14 Repub|          practice? ~May I have the pleasure, he said, of hearing your
15 Repub|            as you do; but a man of pleasure like yourself ought to know
16 Repub|        Whether he has or has not a pleasure in learning; for no one
17 Repub|            that most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the
18 Repub|          said. ~And those who make pleasure their good are in equal
19 Repub|            good to be knowledge or pleasure, or different from either? ~
20 Repub|            cannot mean to say that pleasure is the good? ~God forbid,
21 Repub|      opposite maxims and habits of pleasure which flatter and attract
22 Repub|      incapable of resisting either pleasure or pain. ~Very true. ~They
23 Repub|        what I should suppose. ~The pleasure of eating is necessary in
24 Repub|           there are three kinds of pleasure, which are their several
25 Repub|         Will he not think that the pleasure of riches is vulgar, while
26 Repub|        riches is vulgar, while the pleasure of learning, if it brings
27 Repub|   pleasures in comparison with the pleasure of knowing the truth, and
28 Repub|          indeed from the heaven of pleasure? Does he not call the other
29 Repub|          greater experience of the pleasure of knowledge than the philosopher
30 Repub|         the philosopher has of the pleasure of gain? ~The philosopher,
31 Repub|            at the result, that the pleasure of the intelligent part
32 Repub|        life which is next, and the pleasure which is next? ~Clearly
33 Repub|         whispers in my ear that no pleasure except that of the wise
34 Repub|        Proceed. ~Say, then, is not pleasure opposed to pain? ~True. ~
35 Repub|     neutral state which is neither pleasure nor pain? ~There is. ~A
36 Repub|            by them as the greatest pleasure? ~Yes, he said; at the time
37 Repub|           be at rest. ~Again, when pleasure ceases, that sort of rest
38 Repub| intermediate state of rest will be pleasure and will also be pain? ~
39 Repub|          should say not. ~And both pleasure and pain are motions of
40 Repub|        that the absence of pain is pleasure, or that the absence of
41 Repub|             or that the absence of pleasure is pain? ~Impossible. This,
42 Repub|        that is to say, the rest is pleasure at the moment and in comparison
43 Repub|          tried by the test of true pleasure, are not real, but a sort
44 Repub|       perhaps may at present, that pleasure is only the cessation of
45 Repub|      cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure. ~What are they, he said,
46 Repub|       induced to believe that pure pleasure is the cessation of pain,
47 Repub|      cessation of pain, or pain of pleasure. ~No. ~Still, the more numerous
48 Repub|        also have wrong ideas about pleasure and pain and the intermediate
49 Repub|            the goal of satiety and pleasure; they, not knowing pleasure,
50 Repub|        pleasure; they, not knowing pleasure, err in contrasting pain
51 Repub|         course. ~And if there be a pleasure in being filled with that
52 Repub|        really and truly enjoy true pleasure; whereas that which participates
53 Repub|          an illusory and less real pleasure? ~Unquestionably. Those,
54 Repub|          taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Like cattle, with their
55 Repub|         fails in attaining its own pleasure, and compels the rest to
56 Repub|         the rest to pursue after a pleasure which is a shadow only and
57 Repub|           and illusive will be the pleasure? ~Yes. ~And is not that
58 Repub|      distance from true or natural pleasure, and the king at the least? ~
59 Repub|           be wedded to an image of pleasure which is thrice removed
60 Repub|       removed as to truth from the pleasure of the oligarch? ~He will. ~
61 Repub|        tyrant is removed from true pleasure by the space of a number
62 Repub|        shadow, then, of tyrannical pleasure determined by the number
63 Repub|        from the tyrant in truth of pleasure, he will find him, when
64 Repub|            the unjust in regard to pleasure and pain! ~Yet a true calculation,
65 Repub|            man be thus superior in pleasure to the evil and unjust,
66 Repub|          point of view, whether of pleasure, honor, or advantage, the
67 Repub|       troubles; he thinks that the pleasure is a gain, and why should
68 Repub|           of desire, and pain, and pleasure, which are held to be inseparable
69 Repub|         ever been deemed best, but pleasure and pain will be the rulers