Micah Newman

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the inference is that the good is not the same as the pleasant, or the evil the same as the painful; there is a cessation of pleasure and pain at the same moment; but not of good and evil, for they are different. How then can pleasure be the same as good, or pain as evil?
Micah Newman
But the good of pain ceasing and having ceased is different from the good of slaking one's thirst while one is still thirsty.
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by Plato
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