Full Idea
When anyone's soul feels a keen pleasure or pain it cannot help supposing that whatever causes the most violent emotion is the plainest and truest reality - which it is not.
Gist of Idea
It is a mistake to think that the most violent pleasure or pain is therefore the truest reality
Source
Plato (Phaedo [c.374 BCE], 084c)
Book Reference
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.136
A Reaction
Do people think that? Most people distinguish subjective from objective. Wounded soldiers are also aware of victory or defeat.