Socrates sat up on his couch and bent his leg and rubbed it with his hand, and while he was rubbing it, he said, “What a strange thing, my friends, that seems to be which men call pleasure! How wonderfully it is related to that which seems to be its opposite, pain, in that they will not both come to a man at the same time, and yet if he pursues the one and captures it he is generally obliged to take the other also, as if the two were joined together in one head. And I think,” he said, “if Aesop had thought of them, he would have made a fable telling how they were at war and god wished to reconcile them, and when he could not do that, he fastened their heads together, and for that reason, when one of them comes to anyone, the other follows after. Just so it seems that in my case, after pain was in my leg on account of the fetter, pleasure appears to have come following after.”
-Monologue by Socrates while imprisoned
Personally, I feel with pain comes pleasure. They are one and their opposite is numbness. It feels good to be hurt a little because then you begin to understand the meaning of pleasure. Pleasure in the presence of pain is orgasmic. Pain feels good because it reminds us that we are existing.
2006-06-21 13:41:32
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answered by Anonymous
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if a person moves up a hill with lot of pains he has to climb down with great ease same hence the feeling of going down a hill makes him feel sooooooooo gooooooood
same is with sorrows and happiness
2006-06-20 03:00:47
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answered by rajkumar62 4
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because you start to be changed whithout the feeling of changing around you.you are the one haed for a while,and you want to run on
2006-06-20 03:11:37
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answered by Carlotta G 1
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Because it does
2006-06-20 02:57:48
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answered by Tim 4
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Because life is bittersweet...
2006-06-21 01:01:56
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answered by Anonymous
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depends what your talking about i guess
2006-06-20 02:57:35
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answered by snicker 4
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that's when it's the best...plain and simple.
2006-06-20 03:00:24
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answered by jac_jms2000 2
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