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Quotation from Ion by Plato
“for if I make them cry I myself shall laugh, and if I make them laugh I myself shall cry when the time of payment arrives”
Ion, 535e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The rhapsode's candid admission that he watches the audience's emotions with his fee in mind, even while he claims to be carried away.
Citation: "for if I make them cry I myself shall laugh, and if I make them laugh I myself shall cry when the time of payment arrives" — Plato, Ion, 535e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-ion-q6)
