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Quotation from Philebus by Plato
“I say that when the harmony in animals is dissolved, there is also a dissolution of nature and a generation of pain”
Philebus, Stephanus 31d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The start of Socrates' physiology of pleasure and pain as restoration and dissolution of a creature's natural harmony.
Citation: "I say that when the harmony in animals is dissolved, there is also a dissolution of nature and a generation of pain" — Plato, Philebus, Stephanus 31d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-philebus-q3)
