Full Idea
Living beings experience pleasures and pains which seem, and indeed are, false.
Gist of Idea
Some of the pleasures and pains we feel are false
Source
Plato (Philebus [c.354 BCE], 42c)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Philebus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1982], p.106
A Reaction
The idea that there are 'authentic' pleasures and pains needs some investigation. Misguided anger is a false pain? Vanity is a false pleasure?