Full Idea
A tiny little pleasure is, if uncontaminated by pain, always more pleasant, truer and finer than a large amount.
Clarification
'Fine' is the Greek word 'kalon', which also translates as 'beautiful'
Gist of Idea
A small pure pleasure is much finer than a large one contaminated with pain
Source
Plato (Philebus [c.354 BCE], 53b)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Philebus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1982], p.124
A Reaction
More Platonic puritanism. Is a complete absence of pleasure the highest pleasure of all? I don't think I understand 'truer'. Why would a pleasure be false because it is intense?