Full Idea
Intensity of pleasure and pain is to be found not in a good state of body and soul, but in a worthless one.
Gist of Idea
Intense pleasure and pain are not felt in a good body, but in a worthless one
Source
Plato (Philebus [c.354 BCE], 45e)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Philebus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1982], p.112
A Reaction
This just seems to be Plato's puritanism. How can you criticise someone for experience genuine intense pain? Experiencing intense pleasure is no crime, but pursuit of it might be.