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Socrates

Soc. And further let us add to these the pleasures of knowledge, if they appear to us not to have hunger for knowledge or pangs of such hunger as their source.

Protarchus

Pro. I agree to that.

Socrates

Soc. Well, if men are full of knowledge and then lose it through forgetfulness, do you see any pains in the losses?

Protarchus

Pro. Not by their inherent nature, but sometimes there is pain in reflecting on the event, when a man who has lost knowledge is pained by the lack of it.

Socrates

Soc. True, my dear fellow, but just at present we are recounting natural feelings only, not reflection. 5

Protarchus

Pro. Then you are right in saying that we feel no pain in the loss of knowledge.

Socrates

Soc. Then we may say that these pleasures of knowledge are unmixed with pain and are felt not by the many but only by very few.

Protarchus

Pro. Yes, certainly.

Socrates

Soc. And now that we have fairly well separated the pure pleasures and those which may be pretty correctly called impure, let us add the further statement that the intense pleasures are without measure and those of the opposite sort have measure; those which admit of greatness and intensity and are often or seldom great or intense we shall assign to the class of the infinite, which circulates more or less freely through the body and soul alike, and the others we shall assign to the class of the limited.

Protarchus

Pro. Quite right, Socrates. 10

Socrates

Soc. There is still another question about them to be considered.

Protarchus

Pro. What is it?