Plato Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Anger, Envy

• Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

  Plato

  Pain, Reason, Pleasure

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6136, Catholic Way Publishing

• Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

  Plato

  Pain, Soul, Relief

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.426, Courier Corporation

• Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

  Plato

  Pain, Balance, Action

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

• I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

  Plato

  Pain, Coins, Virtue

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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