Plato, Philebus, section 37d

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[37d] are great and small and intense.

Protarchus
Yes, certainly.

Socrates
And if badness becomes an attribute of any of these, Protarchus, shall we say that the opinion or the pleasure thereby becomes bad?

Protarchus
Why certainly, Socrates.

Socrates
And what if rightness or its opposite becomes an attribute of one of them? Shall we not say that the opinion is right, if it has rightness, and the pleasure likewise?

Protarchus
Obviously.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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