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[468a] as sometimes partake of the good, sometimes of the bad, and sometimes of neither—for example, sitting, walking, running, and sailing, or again, stones and sticks and anything else of that sort? These are what you mean, are they not? Or are there other things that you describe as neither good nor bad?

Polus
No, these are what I mean.

Socrates
Then do people do these intermediate things, when they do them, for the sake of the good things, or the good things for the intermediate?

Polus
The intermediate, I presume, for the good.


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