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How singular is the thing called...

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  • May 1, 2018

How singular is the thing called pleasure and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it . . . yet he who pursues either is generally compelled to take the other; their bodies are two but they are joined by the same head.

Plato, Phaedo, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1899).