phaomakon

Updated: May 17, 2025

That my pains had vanished was now a trifle in my eyes this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a phaomakon nepenfes, for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered.

Horace B. Day - The Opium Habit