The Republic, by Plato. Part III.
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The Qualities of Desire
The object of one is food, and of the other drink. It's not thirst, the desire which the soul has of drinks qualified by anything else. But if the thirst be accompanied by heat, then the desire is of cold drink. The greater is relative to the less, certainly, and the much greater to the much less. Some relatives have a quality attached to either term of the relation. Others are simple, and have their combatives simple. Yes, now that, if I made myself clear, you will understand my original meaning in what I said about relatives.
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